An Open Letter to Mother Nature

Dear Mother Nature:

I know that the computer models suggest that the storm tonight and Saturday morning is a small one and, with each model run, seems to get smaller.

The 0600 UTC NAM now produces 0.15" of water and 2.6" of snow at Alta.  The GFS also generates only 2.6" of snow.  Similarly, the SREF has converged around solutions that suggest a dust-on-crust event, with 21 of the 26 members calling for 3" or less and the snowiest member producing 6"

However, I also know that these models are imperfect.  We try our best to translate physical understanding of how you operate into equations that can be solved on computers and we're getting better at it, but we're still not as good as you.  

It's been a long year and in addition to missing our friends and family, we now miss snow.  I ask that you and your sons the Snow Miser and the Heat Miser come to an agreement to produce a decent storm for northern Utah.  I recognize that it is not Christmas and that this is an exceptional request, but instead of winter, we're having an endless November when we should be enjoying the best skiing of the season.  

Below is a photo of good times when you've been able to successfully broker an agreement between your sons in the past.  I suspect that concessions are needed.  If so, we will gladly allow Heat Miser to torture us with a couple of days of 100+ heat in July for a real powder day tomorrow. 

Rankin/Bass

Respectfully Yours,

Jim Steenburgh
Humble Meteorologist