SO IT WENT from 65 degrees to six inches of pow in 24 hours. On Wednesday I ran six miles in shorts, sun, summer. Thursday I split my desk at 2 to ski 12 runs in the afternoon and I brought the wrong skis. Too narrow. I had the best turns of the season and I took no photos. It was too good to stop. But, I am posting this because it was stunning. And conditions were amazing. (The drive home a tad hairy but by today I’m sure it’s fine). The mountain is well set up for this weekend. And if you’re over the winter whiplash, the what-season-is-it-now, the if-it’s-tuesday-it-must-be-summer kind of weather we’ve had. Or if you’ve coined a new name for it, say Sprinter. Wring (anything that combines spring and winter), well, there is now hope.

The strange period of warming and oscilation we’ve had is coming to an end, and if you want a detailed breakdown of this: read on as the folks at NY Metro Weather explain:

This type of retrograding high latitude block, where blocking moves from Greenland westward into Canada, has been associated with some of the more memorable winter weather periods, and large storms in general, in the Northeast United States.

And, of course, it will snow next weekend. I promise. I’m going away for a week to ski out West. Which is as sure to bring snow as any high latitude blocking from the Barents Sea to Greenland.