Posted on 12/27/2008 8:14:42 PM PST by MtnClimber
Up to 4 feet of snow and drifts exceeding 6 to 8 feet are frosting southwestern Colorado.
It's still falling today, even after 40 inches of snow was reported over the past 24 hours at Silverton.
A blizzard warning ended at noon for the West Elk and Sawatch ranges and the western San Juans.
The National Weather Service says the total snow accumulation from this storm in towns such as Telluride could be 18 to 36 inches by late afternoon.
A winter-storm warning will end at 6 p.m. today for much of the rest of the southwestern mountains.
Travel has been difficult in southwestern Colorado with mountain passes closing frequently due to adverse conditions.
Oh My...
Your next snow storm is over Humboldt Bay... http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=bhx&product=N0Z&overlay=11101111&loop=no
The skiing is great. Bring on more of this global warming.
I believe that we unofficially here in Eastern Washington just north of Spokane have had close to 4 feet of snow in the last 10 days...
Not much new snow here west of Denver, but it is 15F and wind gusts over 60 mph. Kind of normal, but with GlowBull warming I was planning on a new business growing oranges.
Good one.
I have property down near Wolf Creek (same general area). Looks like they have a huge base already. May have to make some ski plans soon.
Al Gore can join me and revel in the beauty of the sun’s powers.
Perhaps you might consider growing cans of frozen OJ?
The cold weather has the bears in hibernation so that is a good thing! We are in the moving to the alternative bedroom mode tonight. The master BR has 16 ft ceiling and faces west. It catches wind like you would not believe. Too much noise to sleep when wind is over 40 MPH and really bad when it is up to the highest I have seen, 118 MPH. So move to another BR on the east side of the house. It really confuses the dogs!
You see the colder it gets means that the planet has a fever and a fever is hot so the planet gets colder as it gets warmer and...uh... the snow is a sign that it is hot...a ...snowball in the oven..
Any way, its so nuanced you hicks can not understand what we cool people know and we know we are cool because Al Gore said so.
If Al Gore is right then you precious ‘Science’ with your stupid ‘facts’ must be wrong. Did you ever think of that? (What a global warming believer sounds like to me)
while impressive, this is not totally unusual for this part of Colorado. The SW mountains are not strangers to heavy snow fall in the winter, and get the most snow of any part of the state.
Silverton needs a visit from al to open the passes.
Even the ski areas in Silverton are closed.
Heard that on the radio the other day. They were doing a ski report and played Silverton’s: closed. Roads impassable. Just looked at the Silverton Mountain page, 196 inches of snow this... December. That is almost 20 feet people. In a month.
We've gotten shafted on snow in the southeast mountains this year, but have had several high wind warnings and cold Arctic air.
And, when it's cold without snow...it sucks:-(
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