yeah, you have to read they cypress reports a bit critically, but that's part of the charm. usually not too hard to extrapolate conditions in town to what's going on up top. snow forecast is pretty good, too:
http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Cypress-Mountain/6day/mid
good link.
Yeah, a good rule of thumb for the "daily update" is this:
Quality of conditions is proportional to the number of lines of detailed text before they are talking about their "lasagna and ceasars salad daily special in the lodge!"
Someone should make a list of "Snow Report Euphemisms":
setting up a little crisp = ice