Sunday, May 11, 2008: Temperature rollercoaster for May 9-11 is shown above in red
(scaled in Fahrenheit on the left). Yellow shows solar radiation. Light blue shows wind
gusts (scaled in mph on the right). Barometer is shown in grey.
Sunday, May 11, 2008: Temperature rollercoaster for May 9-11 is shown above in red
(scaled in Fahrenheit on the left). Yellow shows solar radiation. Light blue shows wind
gusts (scaled in mph on the right). Barometer is shown in grey.
Saturday, May 10, 2008: Grand Lake and Shadow Mountain Lake
suddenly opened up, even though it was rather chilly with fresh snow.
For Mothers Day, 24 hours later, the benches shown above are on an emeral green lawn.
Click on photo to visit the home near this nest.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008: Click on this photo for more images from
this here. The open water is spring runoff punching through the ice
where the Colorado River meets Shadow Mountain Lake. The lake ice
is rapidly getting very slushy and water saturated and will soon open
up from shore to shining shore.
Check back soon for more spring photos.
Winter Park ski area closed on Sunday, April 13, as required per its
forest service permit. It received a whopping 389" of snow. We hope you
managed to come up and enjoy it. Hiking to timberline should be quite
thrilling this year. Be sure to have good water tight footwear; we expect
everything to be wetter than usual.
The official opening for Trail Ridge Road is tentatively set for May 23
with the Hands Across the Nation celebration. We will try to confirm this
date as it approaches. We hope to be there to photograph the record high
snow banks and take one more farewell gander at winter.
Click here to visit the Winter Park Resort website.
Click here to reach our High Definition Weather Cam by Grand Lake
Date and time info has been removed. If you right click on an image you
might get some time info. All images are erased after a week so you'll never
see a really old image unless you need to clear your cache.
Click here for live views of our weather-maker Arapaho Peak!
This camera will be reset. Maybe the puppy chewed the cable!
Sun & Moon for Monday, May 12, 2008:
First hint of dawn at 5:19 am
Sunrise: 5:50 am. Sunset: 8:10 pm
Last hint of twilight and alpenglow at 8:41 pm
Moon: waxing gibbous setting at 2:13 am.
GRAND LAKE
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Grand Lake is about 8400' high (2570 meters).
Latitude = 40.2° North; Longitude = 105.8º West.
The best prognosticator of our weather is the serpentine Jet Stream.
.... Sunday Jet Stream ..... Monday Jet Stream ..... Tuesday Jet Stream .....
.... Wednesday Jet Stream .... Thursday Jet Stream .... Friday Jet Stream .....
.... Saturday Jet Stream ..... (use your back button to return here)
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 weeks after scenery and sports images are removed from
this weather page, they often reappear on our Scenery page.