All About Snow
It is a bit early in the season for major snowstorms but it seems parts of the Rocky Mountain West is getting an early jump on the white stuff.
Some notes from various locations…
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
Winter Storm Warning. Would you believe 8 to 21 inches expected to accumulate in the park over the weekend. High temperatures will be only in the 20s and lows as cold as 10. Winds up to 35 mph.
JACKSON HOLE
Gateway to the Grand Tetons in NW Wyoming. Looking for 11 to 20 inches of snow
CASPER
Even away from the big mountains it will be rough. Casper is in East Central Wyoming at an elevation 5123 feet, about the same as Denver. They are expecting as much as 16 to 29 inches with blowing snow dropping visibility as low as 1/4 mile.
LEADVILLE AND CLIMAX
Two high elevation locations in Central Colorado above 10,000 feet elevation. They will have snow with thunder and lightning–good ole thundersnow! (Remember the Blizzard of ’93 here?) Winds will gust as high as 50 mph.
SALT LAKE CITY
A Winter Storm Watch with several inches expected on the nearby bench areas and 5 to 10 inches at Alta up in the Wasatch Mountains.
Is all this a bad omen for the coming winter?
Interesting question and I don’t know the answer…
Life goes on…
October 10th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Is this the first thread on snow this year? Birmingham is due…
October 10th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
To borrow/paraphrase from the Grinch: “It started out low . . . then it started to grow . . . it was those Alabamians saying ‘Snow . . . snow . . .SNOW!’”
October 10th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so ready for it
October 10th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Send some of that cold air down here to south Florida. Down here, its a “cold snap” if the daytime high stays below 70 degrees. … Not that I’m complaining.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET SNOW (Please, pretty please w/ sugar on it).
October 10th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
…..Snow. Wonderful stuff! I could go out on my porch tonight, and put my bare toes in it! It would be SOOO great!
…..Alas, we’ve still got summer going on here in the tragic city. Sweltering, sun-baked car to get into after work. Sweaty evenings walking around the block. Dang it. We need some cool weather!
October 11th, 2008 at 9:19 am
For we need a little snowfall, right this very minute…
October 11th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Is it just me or does the weather profile so far this fall look eerily similar to the fall of 1949… leading up to the winter of 1949-50? It was like the warmest winter in history with not even a trace of snow in the deep south.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Chris, talking about raining on the proverbial pradade, let it snow on the parade. What was the weather like leading up to the 1963/64 Winter? Huntsville area had average 24 inches that Winter.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Parade, got it right the second time. Chris’ observation got my hands nervous…
JB are you teasing us a little bit here or do you have an inside compass on this one? It seems we are overdue for a cold, if not snowy, Winter.
Everyone probably thinks this, but it seems like we had colder Winters when I was a kid I remember one of the last times schools “let out for cotton pickin” my Brother picked cotton on a cold day in October because the bolls are tough on the hands when it is cold.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Boise, idaho earliest snow since record keeping in 1898. omen or not, JB