Buena Vista Real Estate » snow storm http://www.buenavistarealestate.com Real estate and living in Buena Vista, Colorado Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:30:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © Buena Vista Real Estate 2011 malsillars@gmail.com (Buena Vista Real Estate) malsillars@gmail.com (Buena Vista Real Estate) http://www.buenavistarealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Buena Vista Real Estate http://www.buenavistarealestate.com 144 144 Real estate and living in Buena Vista, Colorado Buena Vista Real Estate Buena Vista Real Estate malsillars@gmail.com no no What a blast! http://www.buenavistarealestate.com/what-a-blast http://www.buenavistarealestate.com/what-a-blast#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:15:29 +0000 Mal Sillars http://www.buenavistarealestate.com/?p=436 I spent most of my working life in the weather biz. Here in Buena Vista I have been taking the official temperature for the Nation Weather Service for over ten years and this morning was the coldest. The temperature was -28 degrees, a new record. The old record was -18 set back in 1956. Fortunately there was little wind this morning, so wind chill was not a big feature. At these temperatures, a wind of five or six miles per hour can do a job on the skin. With sunshine back, it was a beautiful morning, with the mountains standing at frozen attention with their new mantles of white. It was stunningly beautiful.

Yesterday morning was more of a pain. The temperature was -6 at observation time, but the wind made it fell like -37 F and the snow pelting my face was painful. Fortunately I made quick work of the job.

And after all that, we only got about two inches of snow, while the rest of the country reels as this now massive system heads to the northeast. Over my forecasting years I have seen a few of these systems, which we fondly called “Texas hookers.” They are storms that have cold air, moisture and dynamics in the right proportion. They fall out of the Rockies and develop rapidly on their way to the Texas panhandle then make a left hook and aim for the northeast. This one was classic.

Here in Buena Vista, the sun is out and in a couple of days most of the snow will be gone. When one watches the weather as I do, I find this valley has an exceptional climate and little heavy weather!

]]> http://www.buenavistarealestate.com/what-a-blast/feed 0 Spring snow http://www.buenavistarealestate.com/spring-snow http://www.buenavistarealestate.com/spring-snow#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:16:17 +0000 Mal Sillars http://www.buenavistarealestate.com/?p=52 The big spring snowstorm is cranking up and Colorado is going to get dumped on.  Buena Vista…somewhat protected on all sides…may get a foot, but the higher mountains are looking for a good three feet..  In Colorado, these March and April storms can bring major amounts of water and Coloradans expect and love these storms. When this was mentioned to a relative back east, the response was why would you love a dump of snow after spring has gotten underway?

The reason is that Colorado depends on the mountain snow pack for its water.  At our elevation everything flows away from us, not toward us.  Without a big snow pack, we run low on water by summer and when severe, irrigation of crops can be stopped at great loss to growers!  Another aspect of Colorado’s problem is that since out rivers run into other states, those states also rely on our water and by agreement we must deliver it…and we get what is left and often that is not enough.
So even though some of the ski areas have closed and spring here…snow delivery is always welcome!

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