Posted on 06/22/2019 7:39:03 AM PDT by beaversmom
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. — Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park was temporarily closed because of winter weather on Friday — the first day of summer.
Snow is falling at higher elevations in the park.
The road was closed just before 10 a.m. at Rainbow Curve on the east side about eight miles into the park, and at Milner Pass on the west side about 16 miles from the Grand Lake entrance. It reopened about 90 minutes later.
Park officials said to expect wet conditions and possible poor visibility on Friday. The Alpine Visitor Center was closed for the day because of the poor weather.
The road, one of the most scenic and popular summer drives in Colorado, opened June 5. Its traditional opening for Memorial Day weekend was delayed because of heavy snow this season.
The road is the highest paved continuous road in the U.S. that tops out at 12,183 feet.
Up to 10 inches of snow are forecast for the high country through Sunday.
I remember about 1960, living in Delta Colorado on the Western Slope and experiencing a blizzard on the 4th of July on Highway 50 between Grand Junction and Delta. Elevation maybe 5,000 feet. Very scary.
Global warming been around for at least 60 years I’d say.
Wow.
I’ve been on that road a few times.
Same deal in the Sierras in California. Several ski resorts are going to be open for the Fourth of July weekend. We drove back to CA from NV through the Carson Pass two weeks ago and it was snowing and 26 degrees! The concern now is flooding if the snow melts too fast!
Right you are! Even on the Front Range, Denver/Boulder area, snows in June and winter weather in Sep are not uncommon...
If you recall, 1982 was much like this summer so far...Mrs. and I always referred to it as the year without a summer because of unusual wet, and cool terms...Followed by a winter of blizzards...
Estes Park is one of my favorite areas except when you want to drive west in the winter.
All the roads west are closed.
Gorebull Warming will fry and kill all of us!
Saw a photo of snow in North Dakota a few years ago where the plowed snowbanks were over the tops of telephone poles- they had massive flooding that year- Your photo looks like it’s even a bit higher-
[[Silly people. Warm weather is climate. Cold weather is just weather.]]
You forgot, unchanging weather is climate
And that photo I found on the internet is way up on the mtn in Rocky Mtn National Park. I’m assuming your ND story is just down in regular old elevation. Pretty amazing.
Snows down here in June/Sep are uncommon. I’ve been here since 75 and I don’t recall any in June. And only one that I can think of offhand that was a bad storm in September where a lot of tree limbs broke off. That was in the 90s. There may have been a couple of others in September that I’m just not recalling.
Yes I think it was- it was around minot ND- the place that Dakota Fred from the gold rush show on TV was from- He got back from alaska to find his house had been flooded out that year-
Those were the days. When science was science and not a political football. They actually realized the ice age could return soon.
My goodness!
60 degrees on the Front Range in Colorado and it’s almost August ... more proof that “Global Warming” makes things colder ...
btw, on a more serious note, we’ve had so much rain, I don’t think our farmers are going to get a corn crop in this year ...
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