The high temperatures on Friday and Saturday get progressively warmer.  Saturday looks like a great day for some spring skiing.  A system currently off the coast of British Columbia will pass to the north of our patrol zone on Sunday, likely bringing only an inch or less to our patrol zone. Then, things get confusing.  […]

Forecasting that it’s going to be windy in our patrol zone is like forecasting it’s going to be hot in the Sahara.  The forecast will almost always be correct, but it is hardly an interesting or informative forecast.  So, I rarely give winds much of a mention in these forecasts.  Plus, although wind is undoubtedly […]

Two rounds of snow ahead – one on Sunday/Monday and one on Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday.  The first one is a low pressure system with potential upslope, and the models are all over the map (I never tire of that pun) on how much snow it will produce (1” to 12”).  The second one is a more standard […]

Happily, winter is returning.  There are lots of smaller storms, though unfortunately no huge storms, on the horizon. A messy low pressure system comes swinging through Colorado from the southwest later today (Tuesday 3/29).  Although springtime low pressure systems (especially the fantastic cut-off low pressure systems) often produce our biggest snows of the year, this […]

It’ll be sunny and warm for a while (with the highs potentially reaching 50 degrees this weekend), as we sit under a ridge of high pressure.  Next week, the models agree we should be getting a foot or so of snow in total, but they disagree when between the two systems.  As for the first […]