It is September 8, 2024. Welcome to Upstate Snow! This website, now in it’s 13th winter season, seeks to give you all everything we can for snow forecasts and riding in Upstate NY all throughout the season. Whether it is early season, or it is late season, or anything in between, we have it. Like this: Presenting the “OFFICIAL” 2024-25 Upstate Snow Winter Weather Outlook!!!
Well, almost! These early season outlooks have become so crazy over the years, I figured, HEY, why not jump in? 🙂
I figured if I could forecast accurately what I thought the winters would mostly be, this would be it. This has been my actual tag along forecast for a few winters now. Like it, share it, and most of all, have a few laughs about it!
Whatever happens in Upstate NY this winter, we sure hope it is a lot colder and snowier than it has been. Since the 2018-19 winter season, our winters have started off way later that normal, ended earlier that normal, and just weeks of riding the trails, rather than months. I think the most we got was 5 weeks of decent riding in 2020-21, 4 weeks in 2019-20 and 2021-22, and like 2-3 weeks at best the last 2 seasons. Seriously, you look back to the 90s and 2000s when we would have a solid 8-12 weeks of riding, the amount of time is less. We are praying this turns around. Looking at the early indicators, it is not looking good. But it is still way early. Ask me in a few months how it looks.
In any case, it is going to go from cool, almost chilly, to really warm later this week into next week. As most Septembers have been going for a long time, above average is more the normal that anything else. For now. We will see what happens heading into October and November.
Stay tuned. Still anything is possible!
Rich Lupia
Upstate Snow
September 8, 2024
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From areas west of Elmira to Auburn, it is only two things: The Bills and Lake Effect Snow!
From Syracuse and Binghamton, south and east, it’s just whining how long winter can be. It can be really long.
For the Adirondacks and Tug Hill. it is straight complaining how there is NEVER enough of the fresh powder. Especially from Lake Ontario.
And in Northern NY, it is just THE NORTH POLE! Just brutally cold.
