Grand County Weather & Snow Reports
Scroll way down the page to see all of the recent images.
»»» link focusing on Grand Lake from the National Weather Service.
»»» loop video from satellite giving you the Big Picture.
»»» loop video color-enhanced to show Water: the staff of life.
With fall at out doorstep and Indian Summer in the air, we slow down a bit,
breathe deeper and take in the colors. Any day now, the first snows will grace
the high peaks and make them appear twice as tall and feel twice as close.
The lakes turn a deeper blue. In the mornings, mists dance upon the surface ...
great time to go out in a kayak! The elk are bugling; furry animals are preparing
their nests for winter. We hope you enjoy this special time. We love each season
in Grand Lake. Let us help you find a place here that you can call Home.
Click on the link below for our recently updated online magazine.
Companion Magazine to www.MountainLake.com
Just added: end of Summer virtual hike ...
Journey to Baker Pass: alpine valley behind the Never Summer
Mountains. Knowing it's there ... adds to one's sense of value for places near Grand Lake.
Thursday morning, August 12, 2010: mists rising from within the folds of the mountains.
Thursday morning, August 12, 2010: mists rising from within the folds of the mountains. As we enter into fall,
we will be treated to all of the mists that rise from the lakes ... all the way until December.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010: sailboats on Lake Granby. The lake is brimfull. Come up and enjoy!
Restaurants in Grand Lake
Village have been busy and have drawn several bears into town in broad daylight!
On Tuesday afternoon of August 10, there appeared to be a large line of people
in front of an ice cream shop in the heart of town. People were buying ice cream;
they were also gathering to gaze up at a black bear in a tree. He was hard to photograph,
yet if you were there, you could easily see the branches moving as the bear's
large silhouette moved about the tree. On the back side of the ice cream shop,
residents were using their grill on a deck to which the bear could easily descend.
Wildlife officials came and did a stake out until after dark. A shot rang out at
about 8:30 pm, a tranquilizer we think. Scroll down for more mid-summer photos.
Kind of amazing how a bear can
be so hidden up in tree, even when you know he is there. Scroll down for more recent images.
Peggy Mann and company tuning up for a concert over Columbine Lake (the lake is dark colored in the background).
This was a special performance for Columbine Lake property owners at the new and improved gazebo and BBQ area.
Check back soon for more images,
including a new trek into the Never Summer Mountains.
Morning mists over Shadow Mountain Lake.
Now is the time to visit the alpine gardens. In a few days we will have new photos of the
Arapaho Pass Trail and the backcountry route to Wheeler Basin. We have had some inquiries
about the difficulty of this lost trail. Please call us 970-627-3103 if you are planning to use it
before we are able to post more information. Scroll down for Buffalo BBQ, beach and parade scenes.
Grand Lake was honored by this 150 piece student band visiting from near Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Grand Lake's fishing pier. Just beyond the pier are the public boat docks. Before the pier is the beach and boat rentals.
One Buffalo BBQ weekend, all of the paddleboats for rent were out on the lake, as well as the lake tour boats.
Scroll down for earlier scenes this summer:
4th of July Weekend was perfect for a day at the beach. Scroll down for more images ...
Grand Lake's Beach
and Boardwalk. Click here or on the thumbnails above for a walking tour of downtown
scenes that first time visitors and Grand Lake enthusiasts see in the summer.
Click here for » a news release on the Great Lakes of the Rockies.
(use your back button to return here)
Scroll down for Lake Granby photos taken on July 3, 2010.
Dogs have been enjoying the cool clear waters! Scroll down for more scenes.
Thursday, June 17, 2010: private beach on Grand Lake, ready for you to build your dream home. Click on photo for details.
Strawberry Fields Forever!
Family Hike to Strawberry Lake above Lake Granby.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010: Lake Granby is full enough for boats to access areas -- with caution --
that are usually too shallow or dry land.
Web Cam » National Park Kawuneeche Valley Web Cam .. use your back-button
to return here. This camera also gives temperature, humidity and pressure info. Watch for wildlife.
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Our regular weather cam is out for repairs. 
Sun & Moon for Tuesday, May 4, 2010:
First hint of dawn at 5:29 am
Sunrise: 5:59 am. Sunset: 8:02 pm
Last hint of twilight and alpenglow at 8:31 pm
Moon: waning gibbous, rising at 1:41 am on May 5
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Grand Lake Village is about 8400' high (2570 meters).
The lake surface is kept at 8369'; homes a few miles away can be several hundred feet higher.
Latitude = 40.25° North; Longitude = 105.85º West.
The best prognosticator of our weather is the serpentine Jet Stream.
A huge amount of moisture is carried in this lofty stream. When it is
flows over Colorado, we get lots of rain and snow. Often a high pressure
dome in Utah causes the jet stream to arch far to the north of Colorado.
Our precipitation (if any) is then quick (with rain and rainbows) and
concentrated around our higher ridges and peaks. Climate models for the
northern Colorado Mountains are remarkably uncertain. There is a well
understood branch of the jet stream through Montana and Yellowstone
National Park in northern Wyoming. There is also a predictable branch
through Arizona and southern Colorado. We are between these branches
and in a very difficult to predict area. Our weather is often the inverse of
what is occurring in Denver and Boulder; media reports on Colorado are
often quite misleading for Grand County.
For our high and rugged setting, our weather is remarkably sunny. We have
deep, verdant forests and enough snow in the winter to give Winter Park,
Colorado the highest ten year average for snow among all of Colorado's ski
resorts. How do we manage to sneak in enough rain and snow to fill our lakes
and water our forests and yet provide hundreds of beautiful days for relaxing,
skiing and snowmobiling? The key is our unique location on the west slope of
the Continental Divide where it projects further to the east than anywhere else
in North America. Arapaho Peak defines this eastern most projection.
The weather station generating our graphs is in a forested setting
8550' high. The anemometer for measuring wind speeds is set fairly high,
but is moderated by its surrounding forest. Wind gusts on the lakes
(or on a ski slope) can be much higher than what we experience in the forests.
Selected instrument readings are shown depending on which parameters have
recently given interesting variations. Fluctuations in the yellow solar radiation
graph are caused by passing clouds. As data is accumulated, we will provide
pages giving monthly and annual trends. Our data collection began near the
end of July of the year 2000.
A few months ... after scenery and sports images
are removed from this weather page, they can reappear on our Scenery page.
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