Minnesota
Wild Mountain
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- Typical first day
- Nov 10
- Earliest observed
- Oct 18
- Latest observed
- Nov 20
- Normal snowmaking hrs
- 337
The next 16 days
No snowmaking weather in the next 16 days. The coldest it gets is 30.3°. ECMWF and GEM have some. GFS and ICON have none. None of it holds for 8 hours straight. The longest is 5.
| Th15 | Fr16 | Sa17 | Su18 | Mo19 | Tu20 | We21 | Th22 | Fr23 | Sa24 | Su25 | Mo26 | Tu27 | We28 | Th29 | Fr30 | Runhrs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GFSAmerican | 38 | 32 | 30 | 39 | 41 | 38 | 45 | 52 | 53 | 44 | 37 | 33 | 48 | 52 | 36 | 32 | 0 |
| ECMWFEuropean | 41 | 35 | 34 | 39 | 43 | 43 | 47 | 47 | 45 | 54 | 51 | 38 | 30 | 27 | 33 | 29 | 5 |
| GEMCanadian | 36 | 30 | 27 | 36 | 36 | 33 | 44 | 48 | 52 | 44 | 37 | · | · | · | · | · | 5 |
| ICONGerman | 43 | 33 | 31 | 38 | 37 | 42 | 49 | 51 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | 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.
| Season | First lift | Full operations | Closed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | Nov 20about | — | — | wildmountain.com |
| 2022-23 | Oct 18confirmed | — | — | wildmountain.com |
| 2023-24 | Nov 1about | — | Feb 29about | wildmountain.com |
| 2024-25 | Nov 15about | Dec 24about | — | wildmountain.com |
| 2025-26 | Nov 10about | — | Mar 14about | wildmountain.com |
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."
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