Thermalwind's Colorado Winter 2021

Round 2 begins with (extremely) light snowfall at 11 am. Mountains in the snow already and it's falling to about the lake surface. Should slowly progress SW to NE.

No accumulation as of yet. It is pretty calm wind wise. Going to get a little plastic bottle out here to collect and then melt some snow to see the ratio out here

Been snowing for hours now. Pushing over an inch now. Overperforming my location a little bit. Should start to taper into nightfall. Will edit in some pictures later.










Expecting more snow potentially tomorrow and probably the best snow chances of the period coming Tuesday. 

Photos of 1/25:









Bottomed out at negative 1 last night. Had a decent snow this morning, pumping out 1/2" of powder at 14 degrees. Airy snow. 

I'll post with more pictures of the afternoon. thinking we'll get another 1/4" before the system pulls away. 

Going to be awfully cold tonight. Looking for -2 to -4 with a NW wind. Wind chills should dip into the negative teens. 

The difference is amazing, despite intellectually knowing it would be. Still, it catches me by surprise.

Hell, with the frozen lakes and snow covered peaks radiation is huge part of our temperature equation. It runs a good 5-10 warmer than forecast if the sun pops out for a long time. We're on the south face of a little ridge, so we just get blasted with sunshine in the afternoon.

To give you an idea of the cold right now as the base of the lingering Pacific trough bounces eastward:

It's supposed to hit -2 tonight, with a 10 mph wind. Honestly looking forward to the end of the week warmup.

Sneak Peak of the next two systems:


Meh. Energy splitting mountains. Might get 1/2". This would be Friday Night/Saturday morning. Ridging to follow this cold blast tonight should have us above freezing for the next three days at least.

What has my eye is middle of next week.





Deep trough dropping toward the four corners looks pretty good for me. GFS and Euro both have 4-6" for my area, using a 10:1 ratio which it is going to be higher than that on the ratio. 

Moisture, cold, and a nice position for some dynamic lift. Should end up being a pretty good storm for the eastern US for next weekend one it drops off the Rockies. 

Warm day. Got up to 43. Then clouds start rolling in around sunset. Just down to 23 @ 9:55. 

Also, the sunset was pretty cool tonight. 




Sky on fire.

You really have to try for a bad photo. Can't wait to explore more too. I need more snow or the sun angle to rise more to be comfortable on some of the roads around here.

The sun exposure is a funny thing here. I've never seen it so bright and have it feel so hot as in winter. Directly out the door is practically due south. Most if the photos are facing SW and W. Anyway that lake being ice plus facing the southern situated sun makes for some big temperature busts and we needing to open windows.

The other side is, yes, the sun goes "down" earlier than expected sunset would suggest. East of here is sinking down into a river valley, so it's not really a big thing in the morning. The other thing about the sunset though is how cold it gets so fast.