Friday, January 23, 2009

096 | Shhhhhh ... it's coming ... first snowfall in 10 days ...

That's right. It hasn't snowed here in Colorado since January 13th (the fourteenth for areas on the east side of the continental divide). To make things more enjoyable, it's Friday and my work as a paralegal is betting shoved off to a distant world as I continually glare at weather models and predictions with great anticipation.

The current system that arrived early this morning was well on the radar earlier this week, but as we all know, anything predicted more than twenty-four hours in advance is quite the crapshoot. With that said, I took a greater interest into what the predictions were yesterday afternoon. The outlook then was pretty promising, and by sunrise today, things got a whole lot better. Just an hour ago, the forecast improved once again.

What the outcome will be is an entirely different story. But as history this year has told us, it's that Eagle County (home to Vail and Beaver Creek) has been hit hard by most snow storms that pass through the state, and this one doesn't look to fair all too differently. In the post-work hours tonight, phone calls and text messages will be traded with as much volume as a penny stock with new-found speculation. The alarm clock will be set at 5am to find out exact totals and to plan our day our accordingly.

This is the norm. This is powder fever, and it strikes again!







1 comments:

Adam said...

Hey dude! Bout time it snowed, huh?! Checking in from the Roaring Fork. Just got done thrashing about 8" at Snowmass today, and its still snowing. Looking good for at least just as much tomorrow. Hope you're killing it.