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Spring Rumblers

Pea sized hail (or perhaps better put, "grail" since it's almost more like graupel than hail) fell in the Avenues  with a thunderstorm just before 7 PM.  Ah, spring!

Apparently, the ongoing cold weather can be attributed to a software bug on the National Weather Service computers.

Courtesy Bill DeMong via Karl Weatherly

I Can't Take It Anymore!

As a meteorologist who skis, I live for cool stormy weather, but like many of you, I can't take it anymore!  It's time to join the Homer Simpson Angry Mob Fun Run and declare open season on Mother Nature.  These spring storms don't provide great powder skiing and do nothing but muck up the corn.

We're in a bit of a break now, but I just looked at the short- and medium-range forecast guidance and unsettled weather continues for the next several days.  I wish we could send this weather to Texas where they could use a dousing for the wildfires have now charred a million acres.

Is there a bright side?  Well, perhaps we can finally get the Alta-Collins snowdepth over 200" and the seasonal snowfall over 700" (we sit at 181" and 664" right now).

Wasatch Snow Climate

Alta and Park City are about 10 miles and 1500 vertical feet apart as the crow flies, but the difference in weather and climate is mind boggling.  These web-cam photos are both from today, albeit at different times.

Alta

Park City

Maybe they should start selling an Interconnect Tour that combines mountain biking and skiing?

Monday global warming humor

From the UK...