snow.news

04/04/2025

How this spring's snowpack is stacking up in the American West

Maps and graphics visualize conditions at the April 1 milestone

21/03/2025

New post: update on the Southwest’s snow drought, some cool hydrologic cycle graphics, and photos from Telluride.

Plus: H is for hydrologic cycle graphics

09/03/2025

15 reasons why I ski

https://www.snow.news/p/15-reasons-why-i-ski

07/03/2025

EPA continues to publish a revealing set of climate change indicators. Here's a summary of the troubling trends for snowfall, snow cover, and the American West’s snowpack.

The downward trajectory for snow will impact water supplies, wildlife habitat, wildfire activity and outdoor recreation.

07/02/2025

Data on ski resort fatalities and the Southwest’s "exceptional" snow drought

https://www.snow.news/p/ski-resort-fatalities-and-injuries

26/01/2025

Cloud seeding, Canada lynx habitat, snowplow names, Snowmass photos, John Denver videos, and more.

Plus: photos from Snowmass, one of my favorite ski areas

11/01/2025

Ski bum manifesto

Ski bum manifesto: justifying the financial, physical, logistical, environmental, and other downsides to sliding downhill on snow

27/12/2024

10 reasons why I started www.snow.news, a free multimedia newsletter for people who love snow.

https://www.snow.news/p/send-it-why-im-launching-snow-news-565

Free: news, science, photos, videos, maps, and field reports about snow from an award-winning author and Colorado multimedia journalist who loves skiing and snowboarding. Click to read snow.news, by Mitch Tobin, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

20/12/2024

I created a cheat sheet for the many websites that track the American West’s snowpack.

What’s the current state of the snowpack? How have conditions changed over the season?

18/12/2024

How Colorado’s snowpack is stacking up so far this season. After a great November (salmon-colored), it’s been a lousy December (beige) for snow in the high country.

https://nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/basin-plots/stacked-plots/co/misc/state_of_colorado_wteq_stacked.html

13/12/2024

Historical probability of at least 1 inch of snow cover on Christmas

https://www.snow.news/p/deicing-planes

snow.news is a free newsletter for people who love snow and want to know what’s happening with the American West’s snowpack.

27/11/2024

I’m no fan of industrial pollution, but a new study has concluded that smokestack emissions at high latitudes can promote plumes of local snowfall by supplying the nuclei around which snowflakes form.

Plus: C is for "cryosphere" and an update on the West's snowpack