Also what the hell is with your snow storms, they were saying 3-4 inches last night... I braved the snow-destroyed roads this morning (first major snow driving I've done) and my boss said 10 inches expected. We got 7 or 8 but driving around on the airfield it looked like more
Has more to do with all the old forecasters retiring at NWS and the forecast office move to Boulder a decade ago. They don't have a damned clue what happens east of I-25 anymore and haven't for a long time.
One forecaster got it right. Ed Green on CBS4. He's older than dirt and been doing weather here for all of that time.
When he's actually on anymore Nick Carter on Fox usually gets it right, too. He's a pilot.
Sabine on 9/20, ignore everything she says. She's an accountant by training and added meteorology later on. She's reading from NWS most of the time.
Clark's right. You'll learn to fear the word "upslope" when used in reference to a snowstorm. That's when we get dumped on.
Low pressure sets up near four corners and then tracks across the southern border of CO and pumps moisture counterclockwise out of the Gulf of Mexico uphill where the air cools and the dewpoint spreads decrease until precipitation has to occur... and then it does that for 24-48 hours straight. Mix in a nice cold front from the north-northwest colliding with it and the wind howls and the snow dumps.
Not sure I can attend, so don't want to skew things... but welcoming Overdrive and Fiancee to Colorado at a local place might be a great idea! There's plenty in the greater Erie area.
Not a bad idea.
Fiancee is still in Oklahoma for a few months more since she's recovering from surgery still, but I don't have much to do when not working so why not? I'm on a 9/80 schedule (I think).
If any of you local guys want to trade cell numbers PM me
I have Mari so far...and that's it.
Will send one.
I escaped the snow after breaking trail out of my neighborhood. Why is it I didn't fly for a week then got a trip today ?
Heh. Our driveway drifted again but not as bad. Could have gotten out at 06:30 when I busted a trail with the Yukon but Karen's clinic didn't need her with all the cancellations so they told her to forget about coming in and by 07:30 the wind had filled in the tracks completely.
Drift was 4' high on the downwind side of the house in front of the garage around 3PM and 2-3' high in the worst spot on the driveway. Rest of the driveway was nearly cleared off by the wind. Even the driveway right behind the drift sloping up to the garage was clear. Wind just piles it in inconvenient places.
North south county dirt road in front of the house had cool snow waves on it. Looked like the beach. Only white and colder.
John Deere, Ford and I got all of it cleared by just after sundown. See what it does tonight. Wind died down.
Drifts on the north side of the house are built up from last storm still, haven't melted back there in the shade. They're pushing 5' now, about 5-7' from the house. Just a little ridge of snow that won't go away until spring probably.
Oh well. It'll all be turning to runoff and mud out here this weekend, looks like.
I was reading where rental housing vacancy rates in the Metro area are at 2-3% and was thinking that's going to suck for you OD. That won't ease up at all until next summer if/when some big tract house companies really get after it. They don't seem to be in any hurry. Co-worker ordered a house built almost a year ago, they got the foundation and part of the framing up and then the builder lost their crew to $700K+ mansion building and they stopped all construction on his place. He's quite ticked the frame will be standing out in the elements unprotected for at least half a year before anything changes.
If you're in a position to buy, and it'll hurt price-wise if you do, holler if you need a good real estate reference. We really liked the broker we used to sell our city place and he's fast and no BS. He's too busy to mess around much.
Basically no matter how you slice it, housing here sucks right now. Way too many people and too few places, and prices are really high.
