Apologies for a very boring forecast.  As the low pressure slowly moves to the east, we’re in for a ridge of high pressure all week, and there’s no snow on the horizon for the rest of 2023.  If there’s any consolation, starting Wednesday the models are calling for below average winds in our patrol zone.  […]

A low pressure system currently over San Diego is headed our way.  Like most low pressure systems, it loses strength over the Rocky Mountains and then regains strength as soon as it gets to the plains.  (Think of a spinning figure skater rotating slower as she’s crunched down over the mountains, but spinning faster when […]

Quick forecast owing to my travels.  A large low pressure that is currently halfway between the Aleutian Islands and California heads south over the Pacific until its center is just south of the American/Mexican border near San Diego, and then it slowly climbs northwards as it travels west eventually ending up in Southern Colorado on […]

Nothing interesting in the forecast until close to Christmas, so I’ll keep this short.  Sunny weekend, with winds slightly higher on Saturday  than Sunday.  The first possibility for snow is on December 21 – with a large low pressure off the west coast, that low may send a small shot of snow out to the […]

Not much snow in the forecast.  A large but weak low pressure slowly moving from Arizona to southeast Colorado looks to be pulling moisture northerly from the Gulf of Mexico towards our patrol zone.  However, it doesn’t look like it will pull the moisture quite far enough, so we’ll only be getting a mild upslope […]