Fellow patrollers, quick update to my last forecast (I’d love to dig in deeper, but don’t have time right now). If a good forecast discussion is 75% reporting and 25% editorial, my last update was 50-50 of each, and this one is 95% reporting and only 5% editorial. Now that we’re within range of most […]
In late March 2003, a slow moving closed low starting to the south of us and slowly moving east caused a three-day storm that dumped 30-40” in Denver, 40-50” in Golden, and 60-80” in our patrol zone. For the last 18 years we haven’t had a storm that one could even begin to compare to […]
Things are looking very exciting! It looks like we may have a one-two punch later this week into early next week. And, fingers’ crossed, the first punch could be a real doozy. If you want the technical details, read the next two paragraphs. If you don’t, just skip down a couple of paragraphs. There’s a […]
Our patrol zone (and all of Colorado) will be under a ridge of high pressure through the weekend into early next week, which is good for tans and bad for skiing powder. A system from the northwest, but potentially pulling in moisture from the southwest as well, looks to bring snow to our patrol zone […]
We’re under a very pleasant ridge of high pressure today and tomorrow. A large low pressure system (currently to the west of San Francisco) makes its way to Colorado on Thursday. It’s exact location could make a huge difference in how much snow we get. Also, while the system is deep (i.e., lots of precipitation […]