Snow Mostly Will Be Missing Us

The brunt of the storms currently pounding the Pacific Coast currently look to likely stay to our west, north, and south once they move inland.  It’s unusual to say that heading nearly any direction will mean snow, but unfortunately that’s likely true over the next week.  As such, while we’ll likely get snow from Wednesday […]

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The Upcoming Snow – Lots of Moisture but Still Lots of Uncertainty

It’ll be a snowy weekend, but the details are still unclear.  A very powerful closed low, which looks to be in southeast Colorado by Friday afternoon, will bring moisture from both the Pacific Ocean (first) and the Gulf of Mexico (second) into Colorado.  This is your classic low pressure / upslope.  However, there will be […]

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A Very Definitive Forecast of 0 to 42 Inches of Snow

The weather will be too pleasant through Thursday, and then on Friday things get puzzling.  Saturday afternoon’s run of the American Model called for 42” of snow for this Friday in the Brainerd Lake grid.  Sunday afternoon’s run of the same American Model grid called for 0” of snow for this Friday.  I’m not making […]

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Friday Snow

A weak upslope looks to bring light snow on Friday to our patrol zone.  Here are the model forecasts: 7” –  Canadian Model 6” – RDPS Model 3” – WRF Model 2” – NAM Model <1” – American Model This weekend winds will be westerly, as normal, and Sunday looks to be the warmer of […]

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An Inch Here, an Inch There

This isn’t a very interesting forecast.  Sorry.  A small system that is pushing winds to the east will mean an inch to several inches of snowfall tonight (Monday night) and possibly a couple of inches on Tuesday night.  The next system looks to come in on Friday, and here are the model forecasts for that […]

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