Well if you have to know, it's been abnormally dry here in AK for the entire fall. We only got about 4" of snow, that went away, and then finally another 5" over this last weekend, but it's been so dry that the temperature dropped big time. Last year at this time there was much more snow and temps were better regulated. I've been snowboarding over the last month, but it's sad that it's all man-made snow and we live in AK.