Northern season seems longer than southern?

DopeSauce

DopeSauce

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Seems like down here (NZ) everything opens around june 16th, and closes at like end of september/mid october. Thats like 4 months, but over there, seems like you go from december til end of april or may.. which is like 6 months. Last time I was in CO there was like a foot of pow up in the mtns that had fallen on may 5th.
 
makes sense i mean new zealand is an island so it wouldnt have the same continental weathern patterns. I also dont think its as far below the equator as good skiing in the north is above the equator. and of course different weather patterns. In the US we get cold blasts that build up in siberia and northern canada then shoot down into the states. Being an island, you dont really have that so much
 
yea, the ocean keeps you kiwi-type warm. we just have canchuckastan above us, and some polar bear type shit
 
yeah, the season at hood is usually november through the beginning of june (not including glacier skiing), that's like an 8 month season.
 
NZ resorts could probably stay open about 7 months a year. i think that the resorts down there just dont have much demand before or after when they are currently open.
 


NZ is about 40degrees south and Colorado is about 40 degrees north. it doesn’t matter so much in terms of latitude(to an extent) but more with continental and maritime weather patterns along with elevation also. So pretty much like mentioned above NZ most likely has a shorter season b/c of the moderating effects of the ocean and the lack of cold continental weather patterns.

 
^^^ newzealand dips below the 45 parallell just barely. the northern coast i think is a sub tropical climate while the southern island is cool and wet on the windward side, and desert like on the leewerd side.
 
all about altitude, here in chile (southern) u can get like 5 months since most resorts are between 2900 and 4000 mts above the sea
 
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