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So I always find the W/B funny cause its hardly ever right and almost always over reported. So the snow depth for the past week has been 17 inches. Whistler opened today. What happened to the snow depth. It went up 10 inches to 27 inches. There hasn't been snow in a week and the alpine has been about 10 degrees warm or 50 farenheit for the past week.
Do you maggots find that at your mountains this happens all the time too. Almost always the case with Whistler.
It's the magic snow fairies moving snow around.
Its likely that they are reporting from the weather plot at Pig Alley on Whistler now, instead of the bottom of the Catskinner as they were previously. The weather plot on Whistler is at a higher elevation than the plot on Blackcomb.
The snowpack depth is very sensitive to elevation right now.
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Originally Posted by Mechmaster
very true however when blackcomb opened and if you call their snow phone prior to today they always said that they were measuring from pig alley on whistler anyway
They do care what you think (from the W/B snow report):
Snowbase discrepancies:
The height of snow is normally measured at Pig Alley Weather reporting on Whistler Mountain, which is at 1650 m. We were reporting the snowfall on Blackcomb as reported from the Catskinner weather plot, which is at 1550 m on Blackcomb. We reported the height of snow on Blackcomb because Whistler was not open. There is a change in snow depths now that Whistler has opened, and we are now reporting from the higher elevation. The Whistler (pig alley) average is higher then the Blackcomb (Catskinner) average for several reasons. Catskinner is affected more by wind in addition to being 100 metres below the pig alley station. We have been reporting both numbers on the snowphone, and now that Whistler mountain has opened all of Whistler/Blackcomb’s weather reporting will now come from Whistler Mountain’s Pig Alley Weather reporting station. We switched on Thursday, November 24 to the Whistler weather station (as Whistler is now open) and will continue to use this throughout the season.