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2-24-2020 – Good morning, we picked up a dusting of snow late on Friday into Saturday.

Currently, we have clear skies, the morning low up top is 19 with an ENE wind gusting to 58 MPH. Down at Main, the low is 25 with winds 10 to 20 MPH. 

Mammoth Mountain on Hill Weather Outlook: 

Today we expect sunny skies, with a high near 44 around Main Lodge. It will be windy, with a northeast wind 20 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 60 mph over the top.

On Tuesday expect more sunny skies with a morning low of 27, the high temperature will be near 46 around Main Lodge. Winds will be northeast 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30-40 mph over the higher elevations.

On Wednesday and Thursday expect more sunny skies with morning lows in the upper 20’s with day time highs in the mid to upper 40s at the 9000-foot level. That would mean highs in the 50s down at Canyon and Eagle lodges. 

Here is a link to our Mammoth Mountain Weather page for the full forecast.

Mammoth Mountain Snow conditions:

Fast Firm Fun is still going off at this time out of the Main Lodge area. It’s the same story up here in Mammoth, not a ton of snow but a decent base to play on.

The base at this time is a mix of hardpack, wind buff, machine groomed packed snow, and some spring conditions on the lower mountain. Snowmaking Crews have worked hard all season to keep the base up due to the lack of snowfall. They are doing a great job on the runs that have snowmaking at this time. 

The Mammoth Mountain Grooming Crew is really showing us this year how far technology has come on the machines they use. It’s pretty impressive that they can till out some really good packed powder out of man-made and old used up snow.

While I wish we had some fresh snow to play in, the snow surface we are skiing on right now is a lot of fun. Midweek has been especially fun with the overall lack of people on the hill. Seems like every year there are fewer and fewer people weekdays during the winter.

Up Top you will find some fun Wind Buff on Climax and Upper Dry Creek, Cornice and Scotties are groomed and the snow is nice firm and fast groomed out hardpack. Really fun to ski and when you add in an SW breezy it gets even better.

Mid Mountain the groomers will be a mix of mid-winter snowpack with some areas in direct sun possibly springing up this week as highs move into the lower 50s below 9000 feet. It’s also late February now so the sun is much high in the sky and it will affect the snow quickly on warmer days.

Pretty much seems like the earliest spring ever is setting in now, let’s hope this pattern can break down soon and we get some snow and cooler weather.

I hope to see you out on the hill soon, Snowman out…

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