Complicated forecast.  We’ll be getting some snow on Wednesday into Thursday morning from a combination of three factors (in probably the following descending order of importance): (i) a jet streak, (ii) a cold front, and (iii) a trough bringing spillover snow from the northwest.  As if that’s not enough to make my non-scientist head spin, […]

Saturday looks still somewhat cold but at least sunny.  Sunday looks partly cloudy and a bit warmer.  On Monday a system from the southwest looks to pass too far south of our patrol zone to provide any snow.  Temperatures continue to warm.  Then Wednesday a weak system looks to come in from the northwest.  Here […]

It looks to be cold, windy, and snowy this week.  While unfortunately the storm track doesn’t look favorable for big time snowfall for our patrol zone (it ended up being way too far north, with the center of the low pressure unfortunately hovering to our northeast), we should get some snow from tonight through Friday. […]

Sorry that this is the first post of the season, but I’ve just returned to Colorado after a long ski trip in Antarctica.  To orient us to our weather so far this season, in our patrol zone, it’s been pretty much average.  The three Snotels in our patrol zone, which are all close to 10,000’ […]

The second half of May has been great – Mayuary as some people have called it – and it looks like June will start off with a (snow filled) bang!  A small upslope coupled with a jet streak should produce a real snow storm on Tuesday evening through Wednesday (June 1) morning.  Here are the […]