Friday, July 3, 2009: Wildflowers are thicker than ever thanks to the abundant rain
(see photo below). Lake Granby is almost brimful! The region is looking greener and
healthier than it has in many years. Streams in the high country are still gushing.
Temperature variations for July 1-3 are shown above in red (scaled in Fahrenheit
on the left). Rain guage is on the fritz. Light blue shows wind gusts (scaled in mph
on the right). Yellow shows solar radiation. Barometer is shown in grey.
Sky Tour of Mountain Lake Property near Grand Lake
Click on the plane for a cornucopia of images from June of 2009.
Wednesday, July 1: riot of wildflowers. Click here or on the photo to visit their home.
Saturday, June 27: please stand by. We got a lucky break in the
weather and are getting ready to show you almost all of our
properties for sale from the air. Old-timers and newcomers
will appreciate this overview of our amazing area. We will then
get back to our regularly scheduled programs! At our office you
can look for your property or the ones you want on 11x17 prints!
Click here for a sneak preview of the project before completion.
Sunday, June 14, 2009: There was a chance today to take some aerial views from a high point
of land. Scroll down for amazing views showing the setting of most of the homes in the
Grand Lake area. Check back soon for more and new presentations.
Click here for our new Alpine Gardener's guide to transplanting trees and more.
We have much more coming. For now, we want you to see this tree guide in case you want
to act on it this coming weekend while the timing is still very good.
June 27-28: Golf Tournament for Charity on our own Grand Lake 18 hole Course!
$10,000 Hole-in-One contest sponsored by Mountain Lake Properties.
Click here for the registration form. Lots of Fun & Prizes! Hotline for info:
call Ed Peterson at 970-627-8869. Click here to see the Hole-in-One tee.
Click here for big events coming right up.
Click here for a live view of Grand Lake.
Sun & Moon for Wednesday, June 10, 2009:
First hint of dawn at 5:00 am
Sunrise: 5:33 am. Sunset: 8:33 pm
Last hint of twilight and alpenglow at 9:06 pm
Moon: waning gibbous rising at 11:01 pm.
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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.
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.