A visit to Lake Placid, N.Y. can certainly put you in the Olympic spirit. The vibe is alive every day at the site of the 1932 and 1980 Olympic Winter Games. 

It's nice to talk about powder days within the 5-day forecast! 

It will literally be the coolest Super Bowl ever. Set in the N.J. Meadowlands, Denver and Seattle will battle for football supremacy on Feb. 2 in a championship game that the NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee is calling “the first outdoor, cold weather Super Bowl”. The NFL’s feature event has never been played outdoors this far north.

To be a Burton U.S. Open Champion in snowboarding you must first qualify. Seven Springs in Pa., with its Olympic-sized half pipe, will stage the Burton U.S. Open Qualifier Jan. 31-Feb. 2 for the second year.

I grew up near Philadelphia and loved winters like this one. Multiple cold snaps, snow storms (not rain storms), and snow on the ground giving the landscape that wintertime feel. So it warms my heart to see cold air and snow continue to be in the forecast for the east.

But what about the dry ridge of high pressure over the west? Will it move away anytime soon? Yes! Multiple storms later next week will begin to break down the ridge, and powder will return to the northern Rockies. There's even a chance that California and the southern Rockies will see appreciable snow starting in early February. 

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Beaver Creek Resort will replace the existing Centennial Express Lift (Chair 6) with a new high-speed, state-of-the-art combination lift this summer.

The New Year started with a party at Nashoba Valley Ski Area and it hasn’t stopped. That’s how New Englanders celebrate birthdays as the resort less than 20 miles from Boston, Mass. is in the midst of noting 50 years in the snow sports business.

It’s one of the more unusual ski weekends in the Midwest. Pine Mountain, Michigan’s UP, hosts an FIS sanctioned Continental Cup jumping event Feb. 7-9, often referred to as the “Midwest’s biggest winter tailgate party.” 

The northern Rockies have the most snow in the country. 

Over the last week, Jackson Hole, Wyoming measured 44 inches of fresh pow, and they have 18 feet (216 inches) on the season. See more photos of the recent snow.

For the next 7-10 days, the atmosphere will take some time off across the west. Sunny skies will cover the area while the east turns colder. Then snow will return to the Rockies (and maybe west coast?) during the last days of January and into early February as the ridge moves away and a cool trough takes its place. 

More from your local forecaster.

The snow just keeps falling across the Great Lakes as Alberta, Canada pumps one Clipper after another into the region. Minnesota resorts are offering some enticing packages. Get out and enjoy one of best winters in recent memory.

The newest concept in teaching newcomers to ski and snowboard saw its debut this month at three New England resorts operated by The Fairbank Group. The techniques and methodology developed by Snow Operating, LLC, a snowsports instruction consulting company based in Vail, Colo., is being viewed by these resort operators as a sure-fire means of accelerating the learning curve for newbies.