Some Snow Pix 7

7 comments

1. Karen

   March 2, 2009 at 4:25 pm

   6″ isn’t bad at all. Not the way they were talking about the storm on the news.

    
2. Frank

   March 2, 2009 at 5:11 pm

   Everything closed down, but that was to give them time to clear the roads.  I suspect things will be back to normal tomorrow.

    

   School buses, suburban developments, and snow don’t mix well.

    

   And this area doesn’t have the snow clearing capabilities of your neck of the woods.  It wouldn’t be worth it to buy all that extra equipment and use it once or twice a year.

    
3. Bill

   March 2, 2009 at 5:53 pm

   Several school systems have already announced closings for Tuesday.

    
4. Karen

   March 2, 2009 at 8:07 pm

   On the map it appears you guys are at the same North-South level we are. (Latitude or longitude, whichever.)

   Why no snow?

    
5. Bill

   March 2, 2009 at 8:42 pm

   We had a nor’easter (search on the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962).  It’s basically a nontropical cyclone or an out of season tropical storm.  Tons of moisture drawn from the Atlantic.  This one had cold enough temperatures to dump ample amounts of snow on the coastal and near coastal regions.  The tracking of these storms this time of year is extremely important.  Usually, a difference of less than 100 miles east or west can make the difference between lots of rain and beach erosion or lots of snow and beach erosion or just beach erosion.

    
6. Frank

   March 2, 2009 at 10:18 pm

   What Bill said.  The key ingredient is all the moisture from the seas.  You don’t have seas in Colorado.  California stole them all.

    
7. Karen

   March 3, 2009 at 8:18 am

   The falling barometer has muddled my thinking processes, so please bear with with.

   You get no snow because of the moisture from the ocean? Or is it just not cold enough to turn rain into snow?

   We don’t even have good LAKES in Colorado. We’ve got great mountains though.