Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

[Rontele]

Christmas time storm starting to get some traction in the models. I am pessimistic enough to say if it snows over 8 inches in one 24 hour period between Wednesday night and the Monday following Christmas, I will wear any Alabama tshirt that montanaskier picks out for me for the National Championship Game.

[Shredhead]

Aspen skied really well today. Opened up a few more DD and SL hill, for top to bottom expert runs. Walshes was unbelievable!

[montanaskier]

Christmas time storm starting to get some traction in the models. I am pessimistic enough to say if it snows over 8 inches in one 24 hour period between Wednesday night and the Monday following Christmas, I will wear any Alabama tshirt that montanaskier picks out for me for the National Championship Game.

That would be awesome...I've got a couple of gems!

[goldenboy]

How many shirts you got? Might have to get the whole board wearing Bama shirts, if that's what it takes to get some snow

[Crampedon]

Please make it snow

[Name Redacted]

Washed my truck and the wife's car yesterday.

[gratzo]

With all due respect to the weather quote posted by Montana skier, I hate using climate indicies (example: the Arctic Oscillation, or AO) to forecast snow storms. Even if the AO is super positive for the next 4 weeks, a small shift in the storm track can be the difference between powder and sunshine.

Example, the upcoming Thursday storm. Yes, it's following a similar track to the last 6 weeks of storms by cutting off from the main jet stream flow and diving south and west. However, it just *could* cut off over or near Colorado, bringing plenty of snow to the state on Thursday. We're still 4 days out and cut-off storms usually defy model predictions, but it just goes to show that even in an unfavorable pattern, it comes down to the details and not the climate indicies.

It's fun to talk about climate patterns in September and October, but between November and May, it's better to focus on the next storm or two when looking for the powder.

JOEL

[montanaskier]

sunny and mid 40s today.....several grassy patches on the hill. This isn't breaking news, but we could use some snow.

[concretejungle]

Eldora yesterday was tolerable for a day and mountain biking today was good.

I'm going to NM.

[The SnowShow]

Front Range hiking on Mt Evans was great!

[grskier]

Silverton skied well Saturday, Ajax was good today, but very thin... I'll wear any shirt to get us back to average*





As that would mean a great cycle to get back

[Shredhead]

GR:

I think we rode up the gondi together? You sporting a bunch of Trew and some Blizzards with dukes?


I was the old guy on 194 LP's with Hanle.

[grskier]

GR:

I think we rode up the gondi together? You sporting a bunch of Trew and some Blizzards with dukes?


I was the old guy on 194 LP's with Hanle.

Yup... t'was me.

[zartagen]

I wish this worked in real life:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...&q=let+it+snow

[montanaskier]

shhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[bamboocoreONLY]

shhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I think we're past the point of jinxing ourselves....

I mean it's Dec 20th and A basin hasn't even opened up exhibition yet, probably the easiest black run to open.

[gratzo]

Thursday's storm looks less impressive. Weekend looks dry. Two storms possible next week, but I have no confidence in that forecast. Ugh.

[montanaskier]

more snow for the Front Range...sweet....they'll be snow on the ground in Denver on Christmas but not in the mountains. I still no change will happen until the later part of Jan....

[WTF is dat]

another 3-4 inches of blower here in boulder.... i think at this point the denver metro area has seen far better snowfall in the past month than the mountains have seen. a pretty solid 1 1/2 foot base in most places around here. dont think you could say that for summit or eagle county at the valley floor level.

[bean]

There's about as much snow in my back yard in Denver as there was up at eiseman hut this weekend.

[TexasGortex]

I still no change will happen until the later part of Jan....

How would you quantify "the later part of Jan"? Are we talking the 30th or the 15th for hope?

This is slowly driving me insane.

[cmsummit]

::braces for a sub-200" season::

[funkendrenchman]

Can we go an entire December without one single advisory, watch or warning?

[montanaskier]

Can we go an entire December without one single advisory, watch or warning?

my bet is yes......full on butthurt mode.

[montanaskier]

Winter Storm Watch for the Front Range.....smh