Comments on: The waiting game

By: Joel Gratz

Joel Gratz — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:12:29 +0000

Matt – thanks much! Should be snowy and chilly at Copper this weekend. Friday night through Sunday looks like the best time for snow for Copper over the next week. I don’t think the snow will result in big accumulations, but 4-8″ seems reasonable. Remember, though – this is 5 days away, so stay tuned!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:28:07 +0000

Hey Joel, i love the site, and your forecasts have been spot on this winter!
I have skiercross races at copper this weekend, what do you think the weather will be like?
keep up the good work

By: Thomas Scilacci

Thomas Scilacci — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:41:54 +0000

North Routt got a heavy skiff thursday night. I just read a report out of CA about the pineapple express possibly showing up in late Jan. Long ways out but the last time the PE showed up in Steamboat it was very grim.

By: Joel Gratz

Joel Gratz — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:06:06 +0000

Josh, Caleb – I guess I was just hoping for snow on Thursday. I’ve sometimes seen enough low-level moisture come through to provide some snow, even for systems that split and drop well south. But I guess “Old Mexico” is pretty far south, eh? Still looks like good snow for the southern San Juans by late next week.

By: Joel Gratz

Joel Gratz — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:02:49 +0000

Justin – thanks for the presentation; it’s interesting. There is plenty of information on all side of the debate to prove whatever point people want to prove. Climate Change is an ongoing scientific inquiry that won’t have a “definite” answer any time soon. It’s also apparent that there won’t be a global agreement on Climate Change any time soon, which makes sense since there are still many different views of the science and of policy options.

By: Caleb

Caleb — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:55:23 +0000

I suspect, like the rest of us, Joel’s desperation for new snow may have clouded his judgment when he created his Thursday forecast.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:57:00 +0000

Joel, great discussion topic!! Justin, good point about percentage of CO2 as a green house gas. I’ve always wondered what would happen to the environment if the world were to switch over to a hydrogen economy tomorrow (supposedly “green”), and we all started emitting water out our tail pipes. Would we flood areas that were previously dry, would rain forests become deserts, would plant species begin to die off because now they don’t have enough CO2 for photosynthesis? It’s just too bad people are so strongly swayed by fear-mongering and the doom and gloom messages.

By: Mikey P

Mikey P — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:29:51 +0000

I think the amount that humans add global warming is trace at best. I think that data the people at the East Anglia CPU cooked the data to create a worse case senario. However I think we have such an overly wasteful society that we can cut our wastfulness radically and really never cut our standard of living, all the while saving and conserving our natural resources. Waste not want not!

By: Jason Vogel

Jason Vogel — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:34:31 +0000

Global warming is a facade perpetuated upon us by the pro-government, anti-people agenda of the Democratic-scientific elite. You can’t expect us to continue swallowing this morally bankrupt agenda while people are losing their jobs daily.

By: Josh Larson

Josh Larson — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:50:21 +0000

Joel, not gonna lie…was a little confused where you were coming up with your Thursday (chance for) snow given the overall pattern and the modelling. That being said, we meteorologists both take some and lose some, and you’ve been right when I’ve been wrong before I don’t think we’re going to get back into a truly cold regime, and/or conducive to snowfall, again until the last few days of the month. Hope I’m wrong!