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I was thinking about hitting Jay Peak Monday. As I took a look at the forecast and saw "Chance snow, Snow Likely, Snow, chance snow..." on NWS for the next few days, I thought, "That settles that."
I took a look at the forecast wind speeds and started to reconsider. Gusts to 30MPH (forecast for lower elevations) got me thinking "Windhold" (and also maybe Burke). That go me thinking further, what is the windspeed threshold for various lifts? Can we look at a forecast and predict a windhold?
Jay is famous for windholds. The 'Loaf's Gondola was notorious. I relaize that gusting wind is likely worse for a lift than a steady wind, but, there must be some established parameters, at least for the automated lifts (detatchables, Gondolas, etc.)
Any of you lift ops guys willing to spill the beans?
