2012/2013 Cypress Snow Conditions

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

setting up a little crisp = ice

Yeah, I laughed at that one this morning!

Another good one was "hardened surface".

That being said, yesterday was pretty decent. Raven had a good blanket of fresh. Some nice spots as long as you didn't edge too hard and push through to the crust underneath. Soft and floaty on the milder slopes. Groomers were good and the south facing slopes started to soften up quite nicely in the sun. The whole mountain should be good to go by Friday.

I'd like to build a remote live weather plot at the base of Hollyburn. Simple temp data would be very useful.

Arduino + old cell phone + a webserver = cheap solution. Would need to figure out the power draw and size of battery and cheap solar charger.

I'd like to build a remote live weather plot at the base of Hollyburn. Simple temp data would be very useful.

Arduino + old cell phone + a webserver = cheap solution. Would need to figure out the power draw and size of battery and cheap solar charger.

I'm on board

I'd like to build a remote live weather plot at the base of Hollyburn. Simple temp data would be very useful.

Arduino + old cell phone + a webserver = cheap solution. Would need to figure out the power draw and size of battery and cheap solar charger.

Have you seen this?
http://www.yr.no/place/Canada/British_Columbia/Hollyburn_Mountain/hour_by_hour_detailed.html

Have you seen this?
http://www.yr.no/place/Canada/British_Columbia/Hollyburn_Mountain/hour_by_hour_detailed.html

Is there a weather station on Hollyburn? Any info on where that data comes from? If there is a station what elevation is it at?

I'm surprised they don't have a weather station, it would be useful to know historical data to se where the fresh is in its transformation to mershed perderdas and then on to icey bumps / breakable crud before heading out (would also like to know for XC ski waxing at home). They could hide somewhere in the website so at to distract from the advertising on the front page

Is there a weather station on Hollyburn? Any info on where that data comes from? If there is a station what elevation is it at?

I looked at that site to see if I could find where they were getting the data but no luck.

It is possible that it is a huge weather model for BC that just exports the reports for specific locations like Hollyburn.

There was a weather station called Hollyburn in use until 1952.

And there was one called Hollyburn Ridge that was in use until 1995.
http://climate.weatheroffice.gc.ca/climateData/dailydata_e.html?timeframe=2[HTML_REMOVED]Prov=BC[HTML_REMOVED]StationID=781[HTML_REMOVED]dlyRange=1954-05-01|1995-04-30[HTML_REMOVED]Year=1995[HTML_REMOVED]Month=4[HTML_REMOVED]Day=01

There are a bunch that were only active until 2010, probably took them out after the Olympics.

I did see that there is one on Grouse still in use:
http://climate.weatheroffice.gc.ca/climateData/dailydata_e.html?timeframe=2[HTML_REMOVED]Prov=BC[HTML_REMOVED]StationID=823[HTML_REMOVED]dlyRange=1971-10-01|2013-02-15[HTML_REMOVED]Year=2013[HTML_REMOVED]Month=2[HTML_REMOVED]Day=01

Closest I can find is this one, but it has hourly data:
http://climate.weatheroffice.gc.ca/climateData/hourlydata_e.html?timeframe=1[HTML_REMOVED]Prov=BC[HTML_REMOVED]StationID=6833[HTML_REMOVED]hlyRange=1994-02-01|2013-02-19[HTML_REMOVED]Year=2013[HTML_REMOVED]Month=2[HTML_REMOVED]Day=19

It is located at the Cypress Bowl off ramp at on Hwy 1.
http://goo.gl/maps/02Ybq

I'm surprised they don't have a weather station, it would be useful to know historical data to se where the fresh is in its transformation to mershed perderdas and then on to icey bumps / breakable crud before heading out (would also like to know for XC ski waxing at home). They could hide somewhere in the website so at to distract from the advertising on the front page

Oh I don't doubt that Cypress has a plot and collecting data for themselves.

They just might like to have it convey a temp that is a couple degrees off from what is actual.

Closest I can find is this one, but it has hourly data:
http://climate.weatheroffice.gc.ca/climateData/hourlydata_e.html?timeframe=1[HTML_REMOVED]Prov=BC[HTML_REMOVED]StationID=6833[HTML_REMOVED]hlyRange=1994-02-01|2013-02-19[HTML_REMOVED]Year=2013[HTML_REMOVED]Month=2[HTML_REMOVED]Day=19

It is located at the Cypress Bowl off ramp at on Hwy 1.
http://goo.gl/maps/02Ybq

Need more rep for gun. Awesome weather geekery CraigH!

You're welcome. I sometimes look at weather station data for work so am familiar with searching their station lists.

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There is also a webcam on Hwy1 near Horseshoe Bay that looks back towards Hollyburn:

http://images.drivebc.ca/bchighwaycam/pub/html/www/228.html

(there used to be one at the Cypress Bowl off ramp but it looks like they took it out)

afternoon rip on hollyburn trees, was nice, still felt the crust layer but overnight should cover it completely…