Colorado Weather Discussion Thread

[montanaskier]

Looks like someone pays too much attention to snowforecast.com.

I rarely read it actually, however I did look at it for that first quote, the second came from NWS. Hoping for snow makes you look at places you know better for news.

On the bright side, this break from winter has allowed the pack to settle a bit.

[montanaskier]

70% chance of snow for today 1-3 inches was the forecast....sunny and 38. For the first time since Nov. I have no snow or ice on the road, driveway or deck at my place. Amazing how two months of snow and cold can be done away with in two weeks of sun and warm. Maybe some more snow this weekend to freshen things up a bit. It does feel nice to sit on the deck and drink a beer.

[smmokan]

Looks like Sunday should be decent.

[montanaskier]

3-5 for tonight and 1-2 tomorrow. Southwest flow takes FOREVER to impact Vail if it does at all. I hate the SW flow.

Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening looks like a more NWerly flow and stronger than these last two systems.

Sunny and a strong high pressure ridge next week...warm temps.

[smmokan]

MS- I'll be up at the Beav early tomorrow- give me a call or PM me if you want to meet up.

[encore]

Is it nuking in Vail?

[funkendrenchman]

Been nuking in Aspen since 4 or so. Easily a foot on the mountain already.

[GoEhuge]

Pretty outrageous in Summit this morning... took me an hour and a half to get out of my driveway. Def a good foot in most spots at Breck.

[jon turner]

Vail was awesome today. Easily a foot in a lot of places. Found some knee to thigh deep pockets out in blue sky. Might do some BC around leadville after work tomorrow as we got even more than vail. Time to go shovel...again!

[montanaskier]

JT, I was at Vail today too, great morning. Definately deeeeeep in spots. MOre on the way tonight I hope.

[powder_prophet]

Monarch was a beautiful place to be today. Knee deep everywhere, with tons of thigh deep pockets, and the East Ridge in Mirkwood was easily waist deep. Fresh tracks all day, no lines. Mmmmmm, gotta love it! They hit the 400" mark today, and that mountian is freakin burried!! All the steep, rocky chutes and filling in and are now just snowy rollovers.

Saw some gapic action. I was standing above the cliff band in Staircase planning an air, when I heard someone skiing up from behind me. He comes around a tree, I try to yell "how's it going" to him, but he just keeps flying over the chutes/cliffs, cruses right into little tree which sends him flying through the air sideways. He lands mere feet from two huge pines, immediately gets up and says "Gotta know your line!" before skiing away. He didn't say it very sarcastically, but quite matter-of-factly. Very strange. Telling us to know our line? Umm, dude, you just skied into a tree...

Anyway, the pass is going off this year. Can't wait for the next Monarch Monday!

[montanaskier]

Well that helped. Good to see snow again...and lots of it. Looks like everybody did pretty well with this system. Now sunny and warm til the late weekend.

Had planned to go to CB on Saturday but this next storm looks like a Sunday event at the moment. Should I bag a sunny warm CB on Saturday or try to ski CB on Sunday and drive back to Vail afterwards? Or just bag it all together for this weekend?

[montanaskier]

Looks like high 40s....maybe even 50 degrees for Saturday before the next front rolls thru.

[southbalto]

So I'm going to be in WP Sunday through Saturday (2nd-8th). It will be my first time in Co and I was wondering what 70 and 40 will be like if this system rolls through. I guess the area is looking at 8-10 inches on Sunday. Will that amount of snow cause all that much trouble on Bert Pass?

I'm flying into DIA and we're renting a 4/4 for the week.

Anyway..don't mean to be a pest......just super anxious to get out there.

[montanaskier]

if it snows, it will be a clusterfuck. Not that conditions will be that bad, but people have complete meltdowns on the roads.

[smmokan]

Amen to that, brotha. I think I'll play golf on Saturday.

[southbalto]

if it snows, it will be a clusterfuck. Not that conditions will be that bad, but people have complete meltdowns on the roads.

A long 80 miles eh?

I guess I use the time to acclimate.

[Rideski]

You'll be fine.
Plan on two - three hours from the airport.
Its a hell of a lot prettier than South Balto.
Looks like the snow will not roll in till Sat night.
Question is how much.

[montanaskier]

3-7" is my guess

[funkendrenchman]

[montanaskier]

mmmmm....we definately need a little fresher upper.

[Rideski]

[funkendrenchman]

Uhm ya that was a good storm... prolly around 17" in this area.

[powder_prophet]

^^^Trace to an inch here.

[pfluffenmeister]

Uhm ya that was a good storm... prolly around 17" in this area.

No shit!?!? I'll be hitting the slopes tomorrow for sure!