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Mt Buller’s critical water storage project funding guaranteed

June 13, 2018June 13, 2018 The Frog 0 Comments buller ski lifts, laurie blampied, mark bennetts, mt buller, mt stirling, opening weekend, snowatch, snowmaking, victoria

The future of Mt Buller’s critical Water Storage Project has been secured with the Andrew’s Labor Government yesterday announcing a $7.5 million grant through the Regional Tourism Infrastructure Fund.

Mr Anthony Carbines, MP took the opportunity whilst at Mt Buller to celebrate the opening of the 2018 snow season, to publicly announce the funding.

Opening weekend: What lifts/runs will be open?

June 1, 2018June 1, 2018 The Frog 2 Comments australia snow forecast, early season outlook, falls creek forecast, hotham forecast, mt buller forecast, opening weekend, perisher forecast, pete taylor, pete the frog taylor, season 2018, selwyn forecast, snow forecast 2018, snowatch, the frog, the frogs snowatch, thredbo forecast

With little to no natural snow in the resorts it will be touch and go for some to get a lift or two running for opening weekend. So what’s the likelihood of resorts have a run or two going?

Here is how I see it:

There will be some snowmaking opportunities over the next week which will help but there is also a large moisture band due to arrive in the mountains on Friday that could really put a dampener on the opening weekend festivities. There is also a ‘but’ with that. The system ‘could’ also drop some white flakes. The snow line looks to be marginal at the moment and if it shifts one degree less we may get 5-10cm, but if it goes the other way and sits around 2C then we are in for a wet weekend and it will cause damage to the already thin man made cover.