re: #42 Alouette

Last night the weather report was warning about an inch of new snow and treacherous driving conditions. The drive in to work was completely dry.

This is why I really should not pay attention to the TV weather dudes. They always get hyper over the slightest forecast, so there is no level of hysteria to ramp up to when we really do get a blizzard.

We have some local weather geeks in our community, who post on our local community forum, and they usually are more accurate then the professionals. Here’s our forecast for the weekend…

Last several runs of the long range models are in agreement that the global upper air pattern will change beginning Sunday. An upper trough from the Gulf of Alaska will move across CO on Sunday and bring an arctic front down from the north. This combination will bring upslope flow and snow to the Plains and Foothills beginning Sunday morning and should persist into Monday morning. Typically, there is a brief period of moderate to heavy snow just after the arctic front passes, and then the snow becomes quite light in the cold arctic air, so right now I would expect 1-2 inches of snow on the Plains, and 2-4 inches in the foothills from this system. Since there is some upper level support with the upper trough, we could see more snow, but will need to wait for higher resolution models to chime in later this week.

The biggest impact of this coming storm is the temperature. Monday night it should be -5 degrees (f) or colder.