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Grand Lake Village rests in pocket 8400 feet above sea level and just a few fight above the lake herself. (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.
Watch for when the Pineapple Express sets in and we get a direct flow of moisture from Hawaii.
During our dry spells, 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 snow-bows) around our higher ridges and peaks.
Climate models
for the northern Colorado Mountains almost always put us in a Goldilocks
comfort zone in which we don't get too hot or too cold or to dry or too wet!
The weather around Grand Lake has its sharp seasons, yet each season tends to be well managed.
We do not get extremes in part because we have a mile and a half less
atmosphere over our heads than do coastal regions that can get buckets of rain.
If anything, our weather seems to be getting a bit more moderate with
extremes of cold, 30, 40, 50 degrees below zero becoming tales of pioneers.
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.
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