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Welch Village

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Typical first day
Nov 30
Earliest observed
Nov 25
Latest observed
Dec 4
Normal snowmaking hrs
296

The next 16 days

No snowmaking weather in the next 16 days. The coldest it gets is 30.5°.

Daily low wet bulb, °F
Th15Fr16Sa17Su18Mo19Tu20We21Th22Fr23Sa24Su25Mo26Tu27We28Th29Fr30Runhrs
GFSAmerican453331404444465352463735495438330
ECMWFEuropean423734394544485152555538322833310
GEMCanadian4232283739374550534742·····0
ICONGerman4435323941475154········0

Wet-bulb forecasts from Open-Meteo, last pulled 15 October. Each cell is that day's lowest hour. Run is the longest stretch under 28° without a break. The history on this site counts a window at 8. A dot means the model does not reach that far.

Season by season

Each date says where it came from. About means the archive placed it in a window without pinning the day; confirmed means two independent sources agreed.

Observed openings and closings
SeasonFirst liftFull operationsSource
2021-22Dec 4Dec 10Facebook
2022-23Nov 25—Facebook
2023-24Dec 2Dec 2Facebook
2024-25Nov 30—Facebook
2025-26Nov 30Dec 4Facebook

2021-22A poor winter for natural snow in Minnesota. The resorts opened on schedule on snow they made themselves, but terrain came slowly: Buck Hill had six of its sixteen runs open on 3 December, and Trollhaugen ran a part-week schedule into the new year without ever announcing normal hours.

2023-24The latest start on record here. Coffee Mill did not turn a lift until 14 January, after posting "still currently closed", "Waiting for Cold!" and "Still Waiting for Cold Weather!" through December. Trollhaugen opened on 2 November and shut again four days later: "Mother Nature wins this round."