Turkey Night Snowmaking is a Turkey

All summer long, most of my staff has faced the unemployment blues....... no work or working only a couple days here and there. So, along comes Thanksgiving.......a great time to relax with your family. What do I ask of them..... none other than to be in here Thanksgiving night to make snow. Gotta do it...........all forecasts called for clearing by midnight with temps dropping into the teens.......
Then we deal with reality.......Temp at midnight is still 28 and still cloudy. Temp at 3am is 27 and still cloudy. Temp at 4am back up to 28 and of course cloud cover still with us. Temp at 5am is still 26 with clouds appearing to break. By now it is too late to be productive the 8 hour window of opportunity has now shrunk to a mere 2 hours. By 5:30am, the sky clears and temps drop to 23 and by 6:30am to 19.
Temps bottom out at 17 by 7am and quickly start to rise ad the sun takes over.
Not a great start to the snowmaking season, but ya gotta keep trying!
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