Saturday, June 04, 2005

Late snow

Well June is meant to be the driest month of the year in Steamboat, and it should be warm and sunny and beautiful. Instead we've had a major storm system passing over us the past three days.

We love these storms in the winter because they typically dump two or three feet of Steamboat's famous champagne powder. But this time of the year it mostly means rain, rain and more rain. Nothing like the flash flooding that they had in Denver yesterday, but the Yampa river is close to flooding some low areas.

However it was cold enough last night for it to turn into wet snow. Just a half inch or so here in the valley, but the weather service is reporting 5-10 inches above 9,000 ft.

I'm glad I'm not driving to Denver today, because Rabbit Ears Pass (9,600 ft) on US40 and the Eisenhower Tunnel (11,200 ft) on I-70 will both be treacherous. Let's hope the storm has passed before I do have to drive to Denver on Monday.

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