Christmas Gifts

For new readers, a link to the now classic post, "The Untold Story of How Santa Claus Really Comes to Town."

For fair weather skiers and resort owners and operators, a big ridge and mild weather for Christmas Day and at least a couple of days thereafter, with forecast 700-mb (near 10,000 ft) temperatures climbing to positive numbers by Thursday evening (i.e., just above 0ºC).  

For powder skiers and water managers, hope that this pattern changes and we get more snow in 2014.  

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone.