Hey, mother nature and old man winter....

[SnowMule]

WAKE UP!!!!  It's January and there's more snow here in town than there is in the mountains.

Feels like may in the high country!

Get a move on already.

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

La Nina is at work this year on the Continental US.

-AK2DM

[SteveChandler]

It is directly caused by fracking. It is true - you just read it on the Interwebs.

[altenbach]

What are you talking about???

We've been in the 70ies to 80ies with blue sky since NYE. I averaged 13kWh/day on my solar panels so far this year. 😄 Pretty good for January.

[smercurio_fc]

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@Steve Chandler wrote:

It is directly caused by fracking. It is true - you just read it on the Interwebs.

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I read it's a sign of the impending apocalypse.

Here in the Midwest we're about to get our first taste of some snow. As usual, the fortune tellers meteorologists are all over the map (literally) on snow accumulation numbers. At least it's not going to be what they're seeing in one Alaska town.

[SnowMule]

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@smercurio_fc wrote:

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@Steve Chandler wrote:

It is directly caused by fracking. It is true - you just read it on the Interwebs.

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I read it's a sign of the impending apocalypse.

Here in the Midwest we're about to get our first taste of some snow. As usual, the fortune tellers meteorologists are all over the map (literally) on snow accumulation numbers. At least it's not going to be what they're seeing in one Alaska town.

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Well, the world *is* going to end in december... read that on the interwebs too

Went sledding last weekend, there was just as much snow at the summit on the 2nd of January as there was when I was up there on the dirt bike in July. Mountains got a little bit of snow out of this last storm (about as much as we got in town), and now the wind is blowing it all around building nice slabs on top of already weak snowpack.  

Quite frustrating.

[aeastet]

SO we get to go out with a nice warm winter. That is our reward since the Mayans say we are not having Christmas this year. I kinda like not having snow around. Funny since I live in Michigan.

[SnowMule]

We got a good helping of snow this weekend... too much of a good thing, perhaps.  The new snow on top of the old crusty hard stuff made avalanche conditions real bad - several incidents and fatalities this weekend.  Two brothers were snowmobiling near Steamboat this weekend, triggered an avalanche with one fatality.  I've known the family for years and ridden with them all many times... very experienced riders and knowledgable in the backcountry, but sometimes mother nature wins.

http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2012/jan/22/search-and-rescue-trying-get-stranded-snowmobilers/

The helmet cam footage that's been going around the internet and on the news this week is another buddy from Washington.  He got real lucky in that slide.

http://jalopnik.com/5878859/watch-this-heart+stopping-rescue-of-a-snowmobiler-buried-by-avalanche

Whatever winter sport you're into, ride safe and get avalanche training/equipment... the lives of those you ride with depends on it.

[Darin.K]

Flew out of Montrose yesterday, certainly a bit more of the white stuff than when I arrived, but still a lot more brown than I am used to seeing. 

[Ray.R]

We mostly have ice..  with a bit of snow underneath..

Not enough snow for snowshoe or x-county skiing..

I hear the snow conditions are not any better in the ski hills...

I'll have to go to the US to go skiing..  Vermont, maybe?

Although I hear Salt Lake City has pretty good snow..