Thermalwind's Colorado Winter 2021

I just thought of icicles..... As a kid I found them so fastinating.... Ok.... I'll admit it.... I still do.

A few years ago when we had our two days of ice on the northshore I was in heaven.... Didn't think I'd ever see those slanted icicles on the bottom of my car like you see in places that get a real winter.

Hope your place has a snowmobile! Much better than a car!

I've only ridden twice and driven once, but it's a blast!

Update later but got a solid 1" of snow overnight. Currently the divide and high peaks surrounding here are getting all the snow this late morning. Sunshine in my valley.

SW peaks are feasting for sure. San Juans getting a good snowfall too. It's been enough to get some snow on the ski slopes up my way at least, but no jackpot for me.

There's a joke about wind shear in there somewhere...

Also, side effect of the high elevation is the "thermal wind" increases as the pressure decreases. 

Saturday January 23rd



Light snow overnight. Didn't get a chance to measure because I woke up too late for the sun to start subliming it away. 



Hard to get a lot of snow here with the SW flow aloft. Needs to be a lot stronger at least. Those big mountains to my SW just feast on all the moisture before it gets here. You can see it here. Those peaks are all like 13k feet with a few 14ers in there.




Now it's a cloudy afternoon, with the sun not really out we got below freezing again by 3 pm. Mountain breeze is picking up too as the sun sets. Bitter wind. 

Another chance of snow tomorrow as the shortwave, that will produce some southern severe weather later in the week, comes through to the south. Surface low over Colorado ought to treck close but it looks like it'll do some lee cyclogenesis and get rolling east. 

Edit in to add: Cold front appears to be culprit for the wind. Turned more out of the due west. Just cuts through you.