“Just as above-average snowfall started to blanket snowmobile trails throughout the Capital Region, a forecast for warm weather and the chance of rain is expected to wash it all away.
“Right now, with as cold as it was [Thursday], there’s a real good base sitting out there,” said Erie Mead, president of the Town of Florida Snowmobile Club in Montgomery County.
By the day after Christmas, the National Weather Service logged 20.7 inches of snow in the Albany area compared with a norm of 15.1 inches, leaving the region with about 5.6 inches more than normal, meteorologist George Maglaras said.
But, Maglaras said temperatures are expected to hit the 40s today and reach into the 50s on Sunday.
“In places where you can snowmobile most of the winter, we’re not expecting all the snow to disappear, from the Adirondacks and places like that. But possibly here in the valley, most of it can be gone,” Maglaras said.
There were about two feet of snow available for members of the Lincoln Mountain Snowmobile Club more than a week ago, but most of it is gone now, club member Bill Gavin said.
“It was looking real good with that first snow and then we lost half of that,” Gavin said.”
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Munger, Edward Jr. Schenectady Gazette 27 December 2008.