https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/03/12/colorado-wyoming-denver-snowstorm-blizzard/
They're talking 4' of snow and travel impossible.
Better batten down the hatches.
Hasn't started here yet.?ÿ Have to see where the low tracks across southern Colorado and if/when it stalls before we know which area gets hit the hardest.?ÿ Right now they are forecasting that the Foothills west of Estes Park (Rocky Mountain National Park) may see up to 4 feet.?ÿ They never get it right until it happens so will have to wait. I'm in a 'burb west of Denver where the forecast is between 8" and 18" by Monday morning.
Don't need to go anywhere until next Wednesday and someone else is in charge of shoveling snow, so let it snow, Let It Snow, LET IT SNOW!!
That sounds possible, Gene.?ÿ Early today my wife was trying to tell me that Estes Park was supposed to receive 91 inches of snowfall this weekend.?ÿ She accused me of calling her a liar when I pooh-poohed that report.?ÿ I suggested that the snow pack might increase to 91 inches.?ÿ She stopped talking to me.
Apparently the fact that she was born near Wray and her mother and grandfather were both born near Gunnison makes her an expert on anything involving Colorado.
I just got 18" yesterday, biggest dump of the winter. I get to shovel and blow but skis are waxed and ready for the weekend. I guess as long as it doesn't all melt at once flooding shouldn't be a problem down stream, but you never know with spring storms.
Well, HC you can "dig the hole" (pun intended) deeper and tell her that your survey buddy in Colorado says that Wray and Gunnison don't have big blizzards from upslope storms. Those are Front Range events. Meteorologists call them orographic snow events/storms. Whenever we get a powerful low that tracks across southern Colorado and it decides to stall out is when a part of the Front Range gets buried.
No need to go into the details of the low, spinning CCW, pulling moisture out of the Gulf of Mexico, slamming it into the Front Range, blah, blah, blah. 🙂
In 2003, we had the Great Saint Patty's day Blizzard.?ÿ IN aurora, where i was living, we got a recorded 54 inches in 24 hours. Up Hwy 72 South of Boulder they recorded 112 ins. Its that time of year, and its been not quite 20 years.?ÿ they seem to have a nearly 20 yr cycle for Snowmageddon and Cayonfloodegedons....plus or minus...its just facts and figures.....
Fast forward to 4:27......
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Additionally, they seem to favor a weird new age type of measurement system....hard to undrestand if they mean feet and decimal inches or what have you.....
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My cartography Professor would have given them an F- for the scale....
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How does she pronounce "Colorado" ??ÿ ?ÿIf you ask her she might start talking to you again..for a while.
In that 2003 dump I only got a mere 3 feet overnight at 8500 near tabernash west slope.?ÿ I had to shovel my way out the door. I remember the snow was a light blue tint. Since my first winter here in 1970 I remember that one dump but most if the state got more than 3 feet
You got a decent but not a record dump for up there.?ÿ I lived off the shore of Shadow Mtn nRes back in 93'. Was only one season, but man, it forged an appreciation of living above the majority of the front range with just pristine quiet of that new snow.
Never gave it much thought.?ÿ Collar-add-oh? Color-add-oh? Sen-ten-yul Stayte? Sen-ten-ee-ul Stait??ÿ Or as the "New Coloradians say it..........Co-lo-radder with a heavy northeastern accent??ÿ Or as the even newer Coloradites say it...................pass the Twinkies and Fritos, Dude
....pass the Twinkies and Fritos, Dude
So you obviously came back after the recreational grass was seeded across the state..... ???? ?????ÿ
