Welcome to the year of the Snake – Good skiing is happening pretty much everywhere except for the lower Hudson Valley, but High Point is still open although trails haven’t been groomed for several days. Minnewaska trails are TBD with thin cover and bare spots, and likewise no grooming since the weekend.

The Tug Hill area is getting the most snow of all, and the Adirondack Central School District in Boonville has the day off – go skiing kids! Notchview is in good shape for once, and for an old-timey experience try Stump Sprouts. Otherwise, head for the ususal suspects.

The snake is associated with transformation, and may be mysterious in behavior. Kind of like the weather to come during the next week. Read on fore more about conditions for Jan. 29 2025, and forecast for the next few days. See jump links to Conditions and Forecast.

How’s the skiing in general?

Conditions up north and especially in the High Peaks of the Adirondacks have been looking up lately. Some comments from Osceola sound positively smug – I wouldn’t dismiiss 4-5″ as a dusting. Good conditions to be had across the board in upstate New York. The White Mountains are also doing much better, after a literally dry early season. Conditions are as good as they can be for now, and a bit more snow is very likely over the next several days.

Hit up ‘State of the touring centers‘ or in the menu above for reported conditions as of today. Snow depth graphic below shows wide coverage similar to last week, but greater depth outside the valleys and southern/coastal region.

Forecast

A busy weather week is in store for folks in the northeastern US. The wather in in league with the snake, set to to pounce with some wily and transformative tricks. Altogether it looks like some welcome refreshes to the snowpack overall, with some areas such as central New York State and the Tug Hill getting a lot more.

In addition to some light snow today falling generally across central and northern NY and northern New England, we have two more systems on the radar. Summarizing as bullets:

• Today (Wednesday Jan. 29): snow showers, primarily across northern and central New York State and the northern New England states. Snow will be heavier in lake-effect areas and at elevation. Little if any effect below I-90 or south of the VT-NH border.
• Friday Jan. 31: Snow showers or squalls with accumulation expected north of I-90 and in the northern New England states. The snow will be lighter further north, and wetter further south. Freezing rain is likely in the Hudson Valley and southern and coastal regions due to the drop in temperature expected toward the end of the week. Driver safely.
• Sunday-Monday Feb 2-3: light snow for the northern areas possible, rain for the southern region.

Over the course of the week, temperatures and winds will be bobbing up and down in every way – a classic New England weather-fest. Don’t like the weather? Just wait a minute.

Wind direction and speed are another variable feature this week. Breezy through Thursday, with 5-20mph winds out of the West or WNW, and very gusty today, with gusts of up to 50mph in some downstate areas of NY and the mid-Atlantic. Winds will become milder over the weekend and flip southerly to northerly and back day by day. Gusts will perk up on the weekend to 25-30mph. By the beginning of next week winds will again be coming from the westerly direction and it will be breezy but not nearly as gusty.

Expected snowfall by Thursday afternoon:

Temperatures for the days to come:

Daytime temps	Wednesday 1/29	Thursday 1/20	Friday 1/31	Saturday 2/1	Sunday 2/2	Monday 2/3	Tuesday 2/4
Northern NY, VT, NH	High 20s to mid 30s	20s	30s	Single digits to low 20s	Mid 20s to low 30s	Low 30s to low 40s	Teens to low 20s
NYC metro and coastal New England	40s	30s	40s	Low 20s to low 30s	Low 30s to low 40s	40s	Mid 20s to low 30s