SNOW! Anybody else?

[accadacca]

70 degrees in Salt Lake City yesterday and here comes winter...

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[Taylor]

Yep, looks about the same here in Draper. We got a sweet ride in CC yesterday afternoon. Not so sweet today unless you like cold and muddy. Guess it's time to start planning a Gooseberry trip.

[JP]

Nope, no white crap here :roflol:

[ahansen60]

Guess it's time to start planning a Gooseberry trip.

Gooseberry will be getting snow soon too, if not already.

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[Taylor]

That's rarely if ever stopped us. Headed there on the 22nd. Guarantee the riding will be better in So Utah than in Draper.

[Scott P]

Anybody else?

Yes, everything is covered in snow here. My thermometer says it got down to zero degrees last night, though it has now warmed up to 2F.

[accadacca]

Yes, everything is covered in snow here. My thermometer says it got down to zero degrees last night, though it has now warmed up to 2F.

Holy Moly! You do live in a cold area. That's gotta be one of the coldest towns in the west?

[Scott P]

You do live in a cold area. That's gotta be one of the coldest towns in the west?

Sometimes (fairly often) we have the coldest spot in the nation, but several places average colder than us (Fraser CO, Gunnison CO, West Yellowstone MT, Stanley ID, etc.).

In town our record low is -56F. Maybell, which is just west of us recorded a -61F, which is the coldest temperature ever recorded in Colorado.

On some websites, it can be misleading when you look up the averages for Craig because they use the Craig 4SW station which sits on a hill at the mine and is much warmer at night (in fact their record low is only -41F; a figure reached on a regular basis at the weather station in town). In town and in the valley, it's usually much colder at night than at Craig 4SW (last winter when I had -40F at the house, the mine was at -28F). The Craig-Moffat station is the one to look at.

Tonight is supposed to be a much warmer 17F because it's supposed to snow all night:

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

It can be fairly chilly here in winter:

http://images.summitpost.org/original/834906.JPG

0F isn't that cold. The -61F in Maybell was. When you think about it in this way; "if it were 90 degrees warmer, it would still be below freezing", it puts it in perspective.

[Rob L]

Just started snowing here in Torrey

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[accadacca]

Snowbird, UT

http://img.snow-forecast.com/webcams/Snowbird.jpg

[Scott P]

Hmmm, feels warmer. :ne_nau:

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[powderglut]

Just got 17" out of this storm at the Steamboat Ski Area. (Day before Thanksgiving is opening day) About 10" in 2 days in the valley. Last year I was raking leaves in December and skiing 1 manmade strip of death. This year should be a really sweet start. Will probably start skiing on Rabbit Ears pass in the next day or so. No more raking leaves.:clap:

[powderglut]

Wow! Got 52 degrees today. If this keeps up maybe we will see the ground again.

Snow on my deck 2 days ago.
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Up on Rabbit Ears Pass yesterday.
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[Sombeech]

Got the skis out already, huh? Nice

[accadacca]

Wow! Got 52 degrees today. If this keeps up maybe we will see the ground again.

Snow on my deck 2 days ago.
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Up on Rabbit Ears Pass yesterday.
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Looking forward to seeing your reports in the skiing section. Its time to get that area going! :skiing:

[Bootboy]

This morning from my window at work

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[Sandstone Addiction]

My aunt said that she got 2 feet of heavy wet snow in her yard in Escalante. :snowcloud: That is just crazy.

Any other reports from So. Utah?

[Scott P]

Capitol Reef got 9" according to the NPS.

Here why I live we only got 2" or so.

[accadacca]

Utah got nailed! St. George even got 6". That's crazy talk!

Who else got hit or will get hit?

[Bootboy]

7" on the snow stake in my backyard today

[Deathcricket]

Recorded the dogs playing in some Saint George snow. Aspect ratio looks off, makes them look like Daschunds instead of Pitbulls, lol. Still you get the idea.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsIwQ-A8bvo

[accadacca]

Must be weird seeing the white stuff down there!

[Deathcricket]

Yeah pretty crazy. I guess saint george only has one snowplow so the town pretty much shut down today. My neighbor has a RZR with a snow attachment though, so he took care of our entire neighborhood. Took the 4runner out and did some fun spins (doughnuts?) in the empty parking lots, had a blast :)

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[accadacca]

Nice dude!

[accadacca]

One snow plow? WTF

100 crashes in SLC: http://www.ksl.com/?sid=27945817&section=local

[Sandstone Addiction]

Took a snapshot of the "Wundermap" of the reporting stations in St. George area a few minutes ago. Kinda hard to believe...

Bloomington -2F
Zion 0F
Colorado City -18F

Palm trees are beyond shivering.

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[BruteForce]

I have just over a foot of snow on the front yard.. I'm sure glad I have a dedicated ATV with snow plow blade. Yesterday, I ended up clearing all the sidewalks in/around the neighborhood for over a block in every direction.

This morning's view from one of my security cameras:

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[accadacca]

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/09/netyzu5e.jpg
Wish I was in Hawaii! You St. George people must be freezing to DEATH!

[accadacca]

Saturday, Zion National Park reached an all-time record with 14 inches of snow. The 8 inches reported in St. George would represent the third-highest single-day total ever, trailing only the 15 inches seen Jan. 18, 1894, and the 10 inches on Jan. 5, 1974. In 1919, observers reported 8 inches falling each day on Nov. 26 and 27.

Alta, UT holds the all time state record of 38" on Dec 2, 1982.

[accadacca]

Jimmy Kimmel... "Cold" in Los Angeles... :roflol:


http://youtu.be/72mvm0tx_28

[accadacca]

No comments on the video above? Hilarious!

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[Mtnseeker1]

Hope the 50* shit hits soon I've a tuesday ride planned and still have 4 in the front yard:ride: Santa Clara iced over ,Ut.

[Mtnseeker1]

6" in sunny ST' George is right and that 52* mark best hit soon as I have a Tuesday ride planned.:ride: or it could look like this:snowboard2:

They said it hit zero degrees two days ago at the airport. But this is the same air port (the new one) that let a guy get in that killed his girlfriend and stole a plane and wreck it and he was a pilot. HMMM.

[Deathcricket]

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Wish I was in Hawaii! You St. George people must be freezing to DEATH!


Yeah it's trippy having snow on the ground this long! Pretty much none of it has melted from the original storm. Speaking of Hawaii, my uncle retired there and this is from his facebook feed 6 mins ago, brutal!

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[2065toyota]

We took the rock crawlers, a bunch of kids and some tubes to the sand dunes at Sand Hollow. There was about a foot of snow out there. Perfect tubing hillshttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/13/7enamu8e.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/13/yby4ety4.jpg

My house in Washington fields. 9.5" of snowhttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/13/a2yzu5a7.jpg


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[ratagonia]

Mt Carmel, my new back yard.

[BruteForce]

Does anybody know how much snow is covering the San Rafael Swell (Devils' Racetrack) area?

[accadacca]

Uh yeah, Salt Lake City got hammered! The roads are an absolute circus. Thank goodness for all-wheel drive!

[Scott Card]

I had to be in downtown SLC this morning. I drove through Utah County on dry roads. When I got to the point of the mountain you couldn't see any of the Salt Lake Valley. I thought to myself, this isn't looking good. By the time I got to 145000 South, it was almost a white out with the roads getting icy. When I slowly (about 45 minutes later) arrived at the 600 South off ramp it was stopped cold. I waited about 30 minutes to get off the freeway. Here is what I saw.

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If you zoom in you can see one incident management truck stopping traffic and another one pushing those with crappy tires up the off ramp. The drill went like this. Stupid little car with bald tires can't make it up the off ramp. One incident management truck blocked traffic at the bottom while the other one used its push bar to push the little car over the crest. The trucks would both pull in the emergency lane and then back down the ramp and repeat the process. Painfully slow for those of us who bought snow tires.....

[tallsteve]

Strange how hard Salt Lake is getting clobbered. I live in Highland and work in American Fork and we haven't received anything. Just dark and gloomy but no snow or ice.

[DOSS]

Strange how hard Salt Lake is getting clobbered. I live in Highland and work in American Fork and we haven't received anything. Just dark and gloomy but no snow or ice.

Its pretty nasty in Suncrest right now...

[Scott P]

We got an inch of snow. Also, it got up to 43F today, the warmest day in quite a while and way above normal.

[caverdan]

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[Bootboy]

8" on the snow stake in the backyard

[Scott P]

3" of new snow and still snowing (plus the foot we already had). We aren't supposed to get much more though.


Anyone know what it is doing in Moab? Any idea how much snow is on the ground over there? We were going to take a little trip over there next week.

According to the weather reports, there is 3" on the ground in Moab and the Arches National Park Visitor Center and 5" at the Island in the Sky Visitor Center. Keep in mind that this is taken mostly in the sunny areas though and that shaded areas will have more.

[Mtnseeker1]

We got 6" last week but this week we are 50* and good tacky riding again.
I'm sure I lost a palm tree or three. It happens ever now and 30 years again.
Guess I'll get some seat time in to offset this winter blues and all:roflol:
As much as I would like to say you can't eat palms but that is not true.

The cycle of life is always just amazing.

Example: Today I ran into this dude from Denver out in the Warner Valley while riding. He was telling me he got snowed out of everything along the way that he wanted to ride untill today.
Asked me about how the out look was down towards Vegas. Asked me about Logandale and I told him it has some good riding but if he wanted to hit the good stuff head to Nelson Hills.
But to do so with his wits cause it is a bit tricky and has been known to set peeps astray.