Falls Creek Snow Report

Resort: Open 7:00am - 19 Jun 2013

Lifts	24hr Snow	Last Snowfall	Snow Depth Av.
1/15	0cm	16 Jun 2013	0cm

Conditions

Good snowmaking conditions overnight and still in progress. We have Mousetrap open for beginner skiers and boarders. Snow showers forecast today and the forecast is looking promising for snowmaking over the next few nights.

Skiable Snow Cover	Very Limited
Surface Condition	Firm Packed
Snowmaking	View Report
Grooming Summary	View Report
Average Machine Made Snow	0cm
Snowdepth: Sunvalley	0cm
Snowdepth: Northside	0cm
Snowdepth: Village Bowl	0cm
Helicopter Link	Closed
Cross Country Trails Currently no cross country skiing available. Cross Country Grooming (kms) = 0km
Road Conditions Road open and clear beware icy patches
Village Road Clear of Snow
Announcements Skiing on Mouse Trap Today. More snow and snowmaking overnight. More snow showers today. Check the web cams.
What's Happening Mouse Trap Magic Carpet open 10:00am to 2:00pm. Rentals from Falls Creek Sports @ QT from 9:00am. Cloud 9 open 10:00am. Free kids activities at Renault Kids Club 11:00a, to 2:00pm. Pete Show in Slalom Plaza (near QT) at 4:30pm.

Recent Snowfalls

Snowfall	Date
2cm	16 Jun 2013
2cm	15 Jun 2013
1cm	14 Jun 2013

Weather

Overnight Minimum	-2.6°C
Wind	°C \| 22km/h S
Precipitation	No precipitation
Expected Visibility	Good (1km)
Expected Cloud Cover	Partly Cloudy
Forecast -3° \| 3° Mostly sunny. Thu -3° \| 2° Partly cloudy. Fri 14 Day Forecast \| BOM Summary

Lift Status

Board Walk	Carpet	closed
Drovers Dream Chair	Quad	closed
Eagle Chair	Triple	closed
Falls Creek Express	Quad	closed
Gully Chair	Triple	closed
International Poma	Poma	closed
Lakeside Poma	Poma	closed
Monkey Bars	Poma	closed
Mouse Trap	Poma	open
Petes Train	Train	closed
Ruined Castle Chair	Quad	closed
Scotts Chair	Quad	closed
Summit Chair	Quad	closed
Towers Chair	Quad	closed
Tube Park	Carpet	closed

Snow Cams

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	loklok 19/6/13 - 11:50pm Looks to be cold as, tonight - plenty of snowmaking. If they can pinch it from around the place, there should be enough to open Main Street, I reckon.
	mr 19/6/13 - 8:53pm Quote: the Dargo and Bogong High Plains offer some great opportunities for exploration by bicycle. Track surfaces vary from sealed roads to steep, rough four wheel drive tracks. Cycling is not permitted on walking tracks. The following roads and aqueducts are available for bicycle riding: All public roads, except if subject to seasonal closure Rocky Valley, Cope East, Cope West, Langford East and Langford West aqueducts All management vehicle only (MVO) roads, except for Spion Kopje Track
	mr 19/6/13 - 8:15pm thanks guys....yeah i xc ski so i wont be riding on anything thats skiiable, and it appears there's no snow! ill check the parks vic site for general stuff abut mtbing
	BilbyBill 19/6/13 - 4:34pm Last year at the cross-country trail head, there was a sign saying Mtb were not permitted on the x-c trails.
	currawong 19/6/13 - 2:49pm I'm assuming that you are only talking about mtb if there is not enough snow for skiing. Mtb on the xc trails if they are open, or almost, would be a mongrel act
	mr 19/6/13 - 2:18pm thanks curra if im an atheist shouldnt that make me happy
	currawong 19/6/13 - 1:51pm mountain biking on roads/tracks in the national park or along the aqueduct trail in the village should be ok. trashing the new resort trails that are scheduled to open in October is likely to bring down the wrath of the gods.
	mr 19/6/13 - 1:46pm ps wombats and main street would be a start, but im not convinced theyll get there.....
	mr 19/6/13 - 1:46pm is there any formal mountain biking around falls / BHP am i gonna get shouted at if i thrash out to mackay or spion kopje via heathy or if i stay in the resort boundary, not NP i know the area pretty well from years of xc skiing, but not sure on mtbing
	nick12 19/6/13 - 12:36pm I'm going to call wombats and main street by the weekend. 2 good night snowmaking plus the whales already on wombats will have it open.
	currawong 19/6/13 - 12:01pm We don't know for sure, but there is a reasonable chance that snowmaking might allow them to open one or more of Main Street or Drovers or Wombats Ramble by early next week. It really depends on whether the nights are as cold as forecast.
	mick chopps 19/6/13 - 11:59am We've just been discussing that Sb97. If everything goes to plan regarding weather forecasts over the next few days they might be able to make enough snow to get Main Street open. Looking at the cams a lot still needs to be done for this to happen so i'd suggest it's probably still a long shot. Make no mistake though, if they get anything else open by the weekend it wont be much. Welcome by the way.
	Snowboarder97 19/6/13 - 11:51am Does any one know if any more ski runs will be opening in the next few days?
	mr 19/6/13 - 10:01am yeah ill be up with the kids friday, hopefully they can make a bit more......
	mick chopps 19/6/13 - 8:49am Yeah so do I... Just checked the cams and the guns are certainly running 3/4 of the way down Highway 83, strange that they're aren't on that bottom pitch of Main Street. In fact, just about every gun looks to be running on Main Street except the one that bottom pitch...
	currawong 19/6/13 - 8:35am don't know mick. if it's cold enough to make it on the bottom pitch, why not do it? I'm told they have heaps of capacity. So why not farm at the top and make it all the way down too? OTOH I've been told that there some good whales around, just not sure where. I was assuming that was probably wombats. hope you are wrong about inversions.
	mick chopps 19/6/13 - 8:27am The bottom of main street barely looks like it's seen any snowmaking in days, I really would've expected it to be filled in a bit more with all the cold temps of the last couple of nights? You reckon they're farming it up the top then pushing into place Curra? I'm a little worried about temp inversions as the HP moves in and ruining the chances for snowmaking on Thursday and friday.
	currawong 19/6/13 - 8:20am cams are showing a dusting this morning but still a way to go to get main street open but the forecast looks good for some epic overnight snowmaking later in the week
	Dos 16/6/13 - 10:27am Plenty cold, but lacks moisture, same at all resorts Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! Thredbo condition is grim. Friday Flat is pathetic. While upper slopes have received a lot of snow in the past few days, it's still not enough to safely open the runs. Perisher looks great at Front Valley owing to it's elevation being 1700s and lowest base is 1605.
	Dos 16/6/13 - 10:21am According to BOM record, lowest temp for Sat (9am Sat - 9am Sun) was -2.9C
	loklok 15/6/13 - 8:23am Makes more sense. So Saturday's forecast minimum will be Saturday night/Sunday morning. Nice cold temps overnight in any case. Plenty of fresh white stuff there.
	Dos 15/6/13 - 1:36am If minimum is measured 9am - 9am then my understanding its that Sat low temp will be measured between 9am Sat - 9am Sun. That is any temp between now to 9am Sat belongs to Fri period. Temp may increase above Sat low by 9am Sat and decrease again sometime over the Sat period.
	loklok 15/6/13 - 12:54am From the Observations page, "About Weather Observations": Quote: "Low Temp" is the Overnight low temperature, measured in degrees Celsius, from 6 pm through to 9 am on the current calendar day. These values are available for stations with high frequency reporting schedules. The report time for each lowest value is included beneath the value. Note: Minimum temperatures in the Bureau's climate records are measured from 9 am to 9 am and may differ from the values shown in the table. and Quote: "High Temp" is the Daytime high temperature, measured in degrees Celsius, from 6 am to 9 pm on the current calendar day. These values are available for stations with high frequency reporting schedules. The report time for each highest value is included beneath the value. Note: Maximum temperatures in the Bureau's climate records are measured from 9 am to 9 am and may differ from the values shown in the table. Having said that, the forecast minimum and maximum temperatures may well refer to some other time period. Either way, it still seems strange to have any forecast which refers to tomorrow's minimum (which you generally understand to be tonight and tomorrow morning's low temp to be higher than the current late afternoon (and declining) temperature. It's almost as if they are forecasting the temperature to rise before midnight, and then to fall to the forecast minimum.
	Dos 15/6/13 - 12:20am However, according to BOM a day starts at 12.00am and ends at 11.59pm. http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60801/IDV60801.94903.shtml
	Dos 15/6/13 - 12:12am Originally Posted By: loklok Does anybody know how the official weather forecast for Saturday 15th June can have a minimum of 0 degrees, when the current temp (on Friday afternoon) is -1.4 degrees? I thought the minimum temperature for any particular day was for the 24 hours until 9.00am? So Saturday's minimum should be less than zero, surely? If your time frame is right, shouldn't Saturday temp be the period between 9.00am Saturday and 9.00am Sunday?
	loklok 14/6/13 - 6:37pm Yeah, but if the actual temp has already gone below the forecast minimum before the forecast has even been posted then I think that's a pretty lazy forecast!
	mick chopps 14/6/13 - 5:21pm It's called a "forecast" for a reason loklok. No guarantees it'll be right.
	loklok 14/6/13 - 4:28pm Does anybody know how the official weather forecast for Saturday 15th June can have a minimum of 0 degrees, when the current temp (on Friday afternoon) is -1.4 degrees? I thought the minimum temperature for any particular day was for the 24 hours until 9.00am? So Saturday's minimum should be less than zero, surely? Either way I'm looking forward to the snow cams for Saturday morning. With or without natural snowfall, there should be plenty of white stuff on the ground by then - at last!
	currawong 14/6/13 - 2:49pm what mick said, with a little less optimism
	mick chopps 14/6/13 - 2:31pm Maybe a couple of man made groomers. Main Street, Wombats, Drovers if you're lucky. Not much else I wouldn't have thought.