How's the weather?

[Bootboy]

Alright everyone, this is a weather report for your locality. How is it where you are?

Here? 21F and 13" of snow in the yard this morning. I keep a snow stake in my yard and record yearly valley snowfall. In 3 weeks we've had more valley snow than we did all winter last year. 22".

Record for my yard is 175" in '07-'08.

Is the sun shining where you are?
Post your weather conditions.

[powderglut]

Snowstorm just started here. Couple of inches so far. Would love to see a fat number like 13" here too. We'll see how much by tomorrow. Yeah Baby!:snowcloud:

[BruteForce]

I have about 8" of snow on the ground. Sky is completely overcast, but not snowing at present. I'd enjoy it better if I knew there weren't a million leaves under all that snow!

[jfeiro]

Expected to wake up to snow on the ground this morning here in Vernal, instead woke up to 34 degrees and sunshine. There are however clouds to the east and clouds moving in from the west with A 30% chance of snow forecasted for later in the day.:cry1:

[Iceaxe]

See for yourself...


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[rockgremlin]

Combined total from yesterday into this morning (Saturday) = 13" in Cottonwood Heights, still snowing.

[jfeiro]

Spoke too soon, clouds moved in, wind is blowing and snow is falling...........

[tanya]

East side of Zion

A bit of snow last night and it's starting to fall again lightly.

[Iceaxe]

So I'm testing a new HDR Android app.... here is as pic off my rear deck....

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[Scott Card]

Part of one of my trees this morning. 61098

[accadacca]

Part of one of my trees this morning. 61098

That pic certainly tells the story...

My bike in Scipio, UT today on my way home from Page, AZ.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/11/11/besade4a.jpg

[Scott Card]

brrrrrrr. Motorcycle today? I say it again.... brrrrrr.

[rockgremlin]

snowing again...only adding to the already 16"

[Iceaxe]

:popcorn:

http://www.lowbird.com/data/images/2012/11/webfail-post2-35.jpg (http://www.lowbird.com/)

[Eric Holden]

75degs. And sunny!

[powderglut]

:popcorn:

http://www.lowbird.com/data/images/2012/11/webfail-post2-35.jpg (http://www.lowbird.com/)
Seriously?:hail2thechief:

[Bootboy]

Better. I still have yard work to finish

[accadacca]

It is supposed to get back to the mid 50's here in SLC. Christmas light procrastinators emerge... :lol8:

[Scott P]

It's been warm here lately with morning temperatures in the teens and low 20's. Monday was below zero at my house.

If it weren't for the pollution in the inversions, I'd really miss the winters along the Wasatch Front. They get the snow to play in, but the temperatures stay mild all winter long. Sometimes it gets chilly here.

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[Sandstone Addiction]

If it weren't for the pollution in the inversions, I'd really miss the winters along the Wasatch Front. They get the snow to play in, but the temperatures stay mild all winter long. Sometimes it gets chilly here.



Dang, minus 40 on the 2nd! That's waaaaay beyond "a little chilly here"!

[Bootboy]

Raining, again

[Sandstone Addiction]

Reposted with images...

[Scott P]

Same old same old....


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Forecast:

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Craig&state=CO&site=GJT&textField1=40.52&textField2=-107.55&e=1

[Sandstone Addiction]

Welcome back Scott...

Yea, that is mighty cold! :cold::cold::cold: Way too cold. Do y'all have snow on the ground?

I'm ready for a nice warm south wind.

BTW, can anyone see my pics above? Not sure if my work has blocked them or something else happened...

[accadacca]

I can't see your images. It looks like you were trying to upload them from gmail? You'll have to upload them to bogley or somewhere else...

Yep, we are certainly in a cold spell. Many of the streets in my neighborhood are covered in ice. A lot of it is now polished ice! Where are my ice skates! :lol8:

[Scott P]

Do y'all have snow on the ground?

About 2.5 feet.

[Sandstone Addiction]

Let me try this again...:oops:

January 5, ~4:30pm.

View from the top of the Y.

Amazing how dramatic the temperature change was as I moved up and down in elevation. The blue sky and clean air was refreshing. Didn't want to come back down.

[accadacca]

Wow! That inversions is thick. Do you use snowshoes? I have been thinking about getting some.

[Sandstone Addiction]

Wow! That inversions is thick. Do you use snowshoes? I have been thinking about getting some.

I don't have any snowshoes yet, not sure how much I would actually use them. The trails around S Utah Valley get packed in pretty quick after a storm including the trail to the Y. I was wearing my Ice Trekkers shoe chains but there were a lot of folks in normal footwear--including MK in his trademark sneakers.

[BruteForce]

I was between Cedar Fort and Eureka yesterday with my two sons. Our intent was to zero in my new scope for the AR-15. We followed the rail road grade (Pony Express) South about 7 miles, then about 1-2 miles East. Snow is easily 2-3' deep out there. We setup the Lifetime table, but it sank so deep in the snow, it was barely usable. Temperature at 2pm was 6 degrees F. We fired about 80 rounds before everyone was too cold.

Oh, because its a total white-out in that area, we were a bit snow-blind, and I put my dually's front-end into a deep ditch.. took over 2 hours to get un-high centered and work my way out. Fortunately, I found an old sand dune ATV tire, and was able to wedge that behind a front-tire, getting just enough traction to back out.

COLD, deep snow.. not much fun.

[Sandstone Addiction]

Woke up to a heat wave this morning...balmy 20F in Sp. Fork.:kickit::knary: T-shirt weather.

And then there Green River, one of the hottest places in Utah, stuck at -7F. :cold::cold::cold: Crazy.

[Scott P]

And then there Green River, one of the hottest places in Utah, stuck at -7F. :cold::cold::cold: Crazy.

Not in winter, especially at night. Green River has actually hit -42F and sometimes is one of the coldest places in Utah on winter nights. In fact, average January nights in Green River are colder than they are up at Alta Ski Resort. See below to verify:

Green River:

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?utgree

Alta:

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?utalta

[rockgremlin]

I thought Randolph was the perennial winner of cold winters. Seems like every time I watch the news they are always telling us about how cold Randolph is, and how Randolph is consistently the coldest part of the state every winter. I kinda believe it...in high school I would meet Accadacca at Garden City practically every other week for over a year. I drove the Randolph/Wyoming route instead of the Logan route. In the winter frost would form thick sheets over everything, and wouldn't melt even by the afternoon. :cold:

[Scott P]

I thought Randolph was the perennial winner of cold winters

Randolph and nearby Woodruff consistently have the coldest winters of any incorporated towns in Utah. Some places in Utah are colder (i.e. Strawberry Reservoir, Soldier Creek, Peters Sink, etc.), but they aren't towns. I mentioned that sometimes Green River is one of the coldest places in Utah on winter nights. Scofield used to be one of the coldest towns, but they lost their weather station some years ago and almost no one lives there anymore.

Some other towns that often have the coldest winter temperatures in Utah are Duchesne, Roosevelt, Jensen, Loa, and Panguich to name a few. Logan has a cold reputation, but it is mostly unfounded when compared to many other towns in Utah. In the Cache Valley, Lewiston is usually the cold spot. Surprisingly, on some winter nights, Hanksville is even one of the coldest spots at night. Temperatures there have dropped to -35F and the -20's aren't that uncommon. Sometimes some of the desert towns (Milford, Delta, Green River, Hanksville, Roosevelt, Vernal, etc.) get surprisingly cold at night, even though they aren't that high of elevation.

[Sandstone Addiction]

That's a great website Scott, good info.

How does Kanab seem to escape the inversion? Bullfrog and Page don't seem affected by it either.

[Scott P]

How does Kanab seem to escape the inversion? Bullfrog and Page don't seem affected by it either.

Those places can have inversions, but don't usually have as extreme of cold air pooling or air stagnation. Bullfrog is also moderated by the lake.

Places with air drainage tend to stay warmer at night and aren't subject to as many extremes or as strong of inversions. Here is a good example. The Capitol Reef weather station is about half way between Loa and Hanksville.

Capitol Reef has a record low of -9F and averages 0.6 days a year reaching 0F or below. Loa (higher than Capitol Reef) has a record low of -37F and averages 24.5 days a year reaching 0 or below. Hanksville (lower than Capitol Reef) has a record low of -35F and averages 9.7 days a year reaching 0 or below.

Narrow valleys/canyons such as where Capitol Reef weather station is located tend to have better air drainage and don't pool cold air as places like the Uinta Basin do (or even as Hanksville does). Places like Kanab and Page don't pool as much cold air or experience as much radiative cooling. Capitol Reef between those two places has much milder winter nights due to air drainage.

Usually the coldest air in places like Woodruff, Randolf, Duchesne, etc. is very shallow. If you go up a few hundred feet, it is warmer at night, sometimes by quite a bit.

The same is true where I live. Maybell, just west of here recorded a low of -61F in 1985; the coldest official low in Colorado. Downtown Craig reached -51F in a similar cold spell in 1989, but at the mine (Craig 4SW Station) a few hundred feet above town was at -41F, quite a difference for a few hundred feet elevation change. Down by the river some people (i.e. the Department of Transportation office) recorded unofficial temperatures down into the -60's, even though it isn't that far distance wise from the mine.

Shapes of valleys and canyons also affect temperatures and wind. Little Cottonwood Canyon is steeper and straighter than Big Cottonwood Canyon. As a result, it has better air drainage and Alta is warmer and windier at night than Brighton. It also receives more snow.

[rockgremlin]

Scott,

Are you a meteorologist? If not, you should be. You know as much as (or more) than the local weatherpeople around here.

[Scott P]

Are you a meteorologist?

No, but I wanted to be one. I didn't become one because almost all the jobs in meteorology are in the big city and I didn't want to live there. If I could make a living doing meteorology in the boonies, I would.

[Byron]

Oh Scott, living here in the city isn't too bad...and it's nice and warm here, too! Plenty of air circulation around these parts...along with pollution, the "brown cloud", lack of stars at night. Uh, never mind.

[rockgremlin]

Oh Scott, living here in the city isn't too bad...and it's nice and warm here, too! Plenty of air circulation around these parts...along with pollution, the "brown cloud", lack of stars at night. Uh, never mind.


Ya, you can even buy stuff at The Home Depot, Wal-mart and Costco without having to drive 45 minutes one way. :mrgreen:

[Iceaxe]

When I can't ride my mountain bike I go for a run.... and today about noon the smog blew out so I ran the Porter Rockwell Trail and it was sweet....

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[Stone Dunn]

I like snow, seeing snowflakes dancing in the air, and have a snowball fight with the snow,snowman,wow! what a good time！This year, I can not see snow:angryfire::angryfire:

[accadacca]

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[Bootboy]

I keep a snow stake in my yard and measure snowfall every winter. This started at about 14:45. 5 inches and counting... Season total 30" in my yard. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/11/utyta2ys.jpg

[accadacca]

Heading south on I-15 last night. Snow from SLC to Cedar City.

http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae91/accadacca1/D94F609A-4364-4847-A54C-EBF36E75EAD5-6360-0000040AA64E0C48.jpg

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[rockgremlin]

8" total in cottonwood heights, still snowing....."we so desperately need the moisture" :roll::roll:

[Bootboy]

17" in south Ogden. I won't say how much at Snowbasin where I'm working today.

[accadacca]

Here it comes...

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/549893_10151409084240325_789297097_n.jpg?dl=1

[jman]

Here it comes...

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/549893_10151409084240325_789297097_n.jpg?dl=1

Blizzaclypse 2013!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The END is here!!!

[accadacca]

Welcome to the cottonwood canyons in Utah...

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/391236_10152455841770431_161202443_n.jpg

[Scott Card]

Three hours this morning for me to go from Mapleton to Downtown SLC. :facepalm1:

[powderglut]

We had 24" inches of fresh this AM. Totally lightest champagne powder.:cool2: And... never happens, never!! Full bluebird skies!! Sunshine and powder up to your crotch!!! Seriously sick day!!:lol8:

[accadacca]

Oh yeah, good times...

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[accadacca]

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[powderglut]

A true ski bum never considers day time as a legitimate time to work. It totally get's in the way of a powder day!:nod:

[RedSpecialized]

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Shouldn't you be on you Beemer?

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[accadacca]

Shouldn't you be on you Beemer?

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Uh, yeah... :lol8:

[Sandstone Addiction]

January was a brutally cold month for most of us--very glad to put it behind us. :cold::cold::cold:

With an average high of 19.0F in SLC it goes down in the books as the 4th coldest in history.

February is starting out very nice...and hope it continues.

[Scott P]

January was a brutally cold month for most of us--very glad to put it behind us.

Yes, but only for those stuck in the inversions, which were extra strong last month. Interestingly, places outside the inversions actually ended up normal or even above normal. Places like Denver ended up right at normal, while much of eastern Colorado actually was above normal. Closer to Salt Lake, Alta averaged within 0.8 degrees of average. Since it was above the inversion, Alta averaged warmer than Salt Lake this month. Salt Lake City averaged a high of 26.6F and a low of 12.3F, while Alta averaged a high of 30.1F and a low of 13.3F.

Here in Craig, we averaged a high of 20.4F and a low of -7.2F, and even on days where were still below zero, places in Eastern Colorado experienced record high temperatures in the mid-70's for part of the month.

[Sandstone Addiction]

This is always a good sign!

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Won't be long now.


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Sorry about the weeds....:haha:

[Scott P]

It's snowing here, but nothing unusual.

Interesting weather trivia for today:

80 years ago today (February 9 1933), was the coldest day ever in Salt Lake City. It was -30F (actual temperature, not windchill). The next day it was -26F on February 10; the second coldest day in SLC history.

[Sandstone Addiction]

I was excited thinking the storm had passed us by with less than an inch....no luck, it started snowing about 6pm and I just came in from shoveling the first 6 inches off the driveway...:facepalm1:

Thanks for the trivia Scott, I heard my dad on many occasions talk about that winter--brutal (I know, I know, nothing compared to Craig--ha ha) :haha:

[Scott P]

95F at the Craig Airport today (June 10). Not only a record (old record was 89F), but the earliest that we've been this hot. The next earliest 95F was recorded on June 23, and set only last year!

There wasn't really a spring this year. It was snowing and then it got really warm.