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I just got a new board and bindings over the summer so this season will be the worst in years. Sorry guys my fault

For the b roll you should add little headings with the resort

TL/DR: “I don’t know, gotta wait and see”

El Niño is Spanish for "The Nino" - Chris Farley

Coloradan here. I really hope that we get so much snow, not because of the skiing even but because of our lakes. I always ski around summit county (think Breckenridge, keystone) and lake Dillon is nearly dry right now. The blue river that runs through breck IS dry, and the gore through vail is almost fully dry as well. We need snowpack, and if this year does not bring it we might loose a lot of natural lakes and rivers for a long time in this state.

I live in CO and I think we will experience a season reminiscent to the 96/97 and the 10/11 seasons. I'm calling it now; my resort will see waist-deep pow at least twice this season 🤞🏻❄️💙🤙🏻

As a Vermonter, I know that even if it rains I'll have a great time. My western trip is planned and more than likely it will be awesome!
... after all I am a skier.

It’s really hard to predict long-range weather like this. It’s a gamble at this point.

I was skiing in solitude in February. The snow quality was so bad, my ski partner hurt his ankle really bad! We had to go to snowbasin after just one day. The 2nd day was the best day of the trip, average snow. The 3rd day had a snowstorm so powerful it pushed me down the slope, and the chairlifts had to fricking CLOSE. Shows how variable snow is.

Great analysis.  This last year was so different than the predictions.  It's certainly not a sure thing.  I always appreciate your balanced and honest insights.

I WANT it to  be good. So it will be.

As my state has been on fire since June, had a dramatic reduction in snow pack and a record of atmospheric rivers/ Pineapple Express storms, the PNW votes for La Nina!!!!

Justice for the Cascades and Coastal mountains!!!!

Using South America as a prediction for the North American Ski season should just be considered an indicator. The storm systems for North America and South America are driven by totally different phenomena/systems. ENSO is a good indicator of how much moisture/how warm the these systems will be and has greater impacts the closer to the equator you are.
South American storms are primarily driven by the Southern Ocean/Westerly Wind-belt circling Antarctica. This is the SAM index. A negative SAM for South America means the westerly wind belt and associated storm cycle/low pressure cycle has shifted north. A negative SAM combined with the warm waters off the equatorial region off South America as result of El Nino can result in lots of moisture and snowfall. If you have a positive SAM this results in less storms/storms not pushing north out of the southern ocean, which means limited storms and cold weather, even if El Nino is occuring for this region. It is important to note that the Souther Annular Mode has a time cycle of weeks, not months, so you can have multiple swings from positive to negative, and vice versa in a season. Where as ENSO is on a time-scale of Months. Thats why some El Nino years start terribly but then halfway through or even right at the back-end, spring in to life with huge dumps.
The same is true for North America. Just your storm systems are come out of the northern circulation. El Nino increases the likely hood of storms that do come further South for NA having increased moisture levels and big snowfalls, but it is not the primary driver of these storms and is still reliant on these storms and atmospheric rivers actually occuring/pushing south in the first place. This is the Arctic Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation.

Wa state here, last season was the worst I remember, I did manage amazing runs in Whistler 4 different days getting powder runs all 4 days but that was all I managed. This year I bought a whole ski set up to learn after snowboarding for 20+ years. I got friends who want to learn and board. I’m super worried yet can’t wait. I hope it doesn’t suck like last year.

I ski up in Tahoe and all of the previous El Niño no matter what had great snowfall in the sierras so hopefully it will come through like that again

If you were in the Boise area during Jan 2016, you may remember the barrage of storms that brought up to 4 ft of snow to the area. Usually, winters are warm enough there that we may only get a good few inches of snow accumulation over a season, but that was the one everyone remembers.

god damn Oregon needs this season to be big

I pray michigan has a good winter

I guarantee that this season will be one of these descriptions:  Below Average, Average or Above Average, just like every other preseason prediction has been for decades.