Winter Park Resort Snow Total Contest
How much snow will Winter Park Resort receive for the 2009/2010 ski season ending on April 19th, 2010? That is the question that we skiers ponder up here in Winter Park, Colorado. Kinda of like mulling over the lint in your belly button but much more fun. We here at Winter Park Lodging Company thought we could make this snow forecasting bit more fun if we had a contest. So here is the contest:
Guess how much snow Winter Park Resort will receive by April 18th, 2010, as reported on the Winter Park Resort website, for a chance to win dinner and drinks for two at one of our fine restaurants here in WP. Use the comment section below for your official entry and all guesses need to be in by April 5th. He/She that is closest to the snow total wins. We will post a winner by April 20, 2010 on this blog.
We had a slow snow start to this ski season but the ski gods have been pretty kind to us the last month or so with a couple of doozy storms that dropped as much as 16″ of fluffy white on our beloved Winter Park. A couple of these storms also sent avalanches crashing down on US Highway 40 to give us Winter park folk the better part of the day to enjoy Mary Jane/Winter Park by ourselves (and those fortunate enough to already be here).
The snow report and total for today March13th, 2010 look like this:
| New Winter Park Resort Snow (In Inches) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 hrs | 48 hrs | 72 hrs | Season |
| 0″ | 1.5″ | 8″ | 227.9″ |
Winter Park Resort averages 350″ inches of snow per year so we should be getting some big storms the rest of March and April this year. Here is some historical info on snow totals at Winter Park Resort for the last year and the ten previous years:
| Winter Park/Mary Jane 2008 – 2009 Ski Season | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Month
|
Snowfall (inches)
|
Percent of 30 yr. average
|
| October | 7 | 101% |
| November | 34.6 | 56% |
| December | 93.2 | 152% |
| January | 73.5 | 113% |
| February | 59.3 | 103% |
| March | 41.2 | 63% |
| April | 70 | 190% |
|
Total
|
378.8
|
107%
|
| Winter Park Resort Snowfall (inches) / Percent of 30 yr. average | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Season
|
Oct.
|
Nov.
|
Dec.
|
Jan.
|
Feb.
|
March
|
April
|
Total
|
| 2007-2008 | 14.0 / 105 | 15.1 / 31 | 86.8 / 142 | 75.1 / 127 | 73.1 / 125 | 70.0 / 122 | 55.1 / 122 | 389.2 / 118.8 |
| 2006-2007 | 42.0 / 609 | 28.2 / 46 | 54.1 / 88 | 28.2 / 43 | 69.6 / 121 | 46.7 / 71 | 33.7 / 92 | 302.5 / 85.4 |
| 2005-2006 | 11.0 / 159 | 79.5 / 130 | 87.0 / 142 | 68.0 / 104 | 50.6 / 88 | 51.6 / 79 | 17.3 / 47 | 365.0 / 103.0 |
| 2004-2005 | 18.0 / 261 | 48.2 / 79 | 38.3 / 63 | 47.5 / 73 | 43.1 / 75 | 68.1 / 104 | 29.5 / 80 | 292.7 / 89.3 |
| 2003-2004 | 0 / 0 |
72.1 / 118 | 59.6 / 97 | 30.9 / 47 | 55.3 / 96 | 40.2 / 61 | 10.6 / 29 | 268.7 / 75.8 |
| 2002-2003 | 28.2 / 409 | 71.6 / 117 | 52.0 / 85 | 37.6 / 58 | 68.1 / 119 | 114.2 / 174 | 39.0 / 106 | 410.7 / 115.9 |
| 2001-2002 | 4.0 / 58 | 45.6 / 75 | 59.8 / 98 | 67.7 / 104 | 35.7 / 62 | 27.2 / 41 | 6.2 / 17 | 246.2 / 69.5 |
| 2000-2001 | 3.0 / 43 | 76.2 / 125 | 82.1 / 134 | 45.4 / 70 | 65.5 / 114 | 57.3 / 87 | 32.5 / 88 | 362 / 102.2 |
| 1999-2000 | 7.0 / 101 | 16.5 / 27 | 65.1 / 106 | 93.8 / 144 | 67.0 / 117 | 56.1 / 85 | 35.5 / 97 | 341.0 / 126.9 |
| 1998-1999 | 6.0 / 87 | 32.5 / 53 | 27.8 / 45 | 98.8 / 152 | 55.3 / 96 | 43.8 / 67 | 35.3 / 96 | 299.4 / 72.9 |
|
Averages
|
13.3 / 183 | 48.6 / 80 | 61.2 / 100 | 59.3 / 92 | 58.3 / 101 | 57.5 / 89 | 29.5 / 77 | 327.7 / 96.0 |
Plenty of info to base your guesses on but please research away. I will put my guess in first and may the best man win. We all actually win with the more snow we get though!
Winter Park Resort will receive exactly 330 inches of snow for the 2009/2010 ski season.
My guess is 299 inches.
An unfortunate 252 inches for the season.
My guess for the snowfall at Winter Park Resort for season ending April 19th 2010 is 285 inches.
My guess for the 2009-2010 season is 263″.