Another snow dusting up high spreads ski bug in Colorado high country
A winter weather advisory overnight Wednesday produced a dusting of snow on the highest peaks but just a lot of rain on the ski slopes of Vail Thursday morning.
That's the second such dusting up high so far this late summer, and it has snow riders digging out their gear and assessing their needs for the coming season.
Just to the east over Vail Pass in Summit County the snow seems to have been a bit more serious up high (see Arapahoe Basin photo and Summit County video), but it hardly matters since most of this white stuff will be long gone by the time snow guns crank up in earnest in October.Loveland and A-Basin will once again duel to be the first Colorado resort to open for the season – probably sometime in the first week of October.
Vail and Beaver Creek open on Friday, Nov. 18, and Wednesday, Nov. 23, respectively.
Weather watchers are calling for a warming trend this weekend, which is a lot easier to predict than what kind of winter snow riders can expect this coming season. Most models see a second straight La Niña season in which water temperatures in the Pacific determine the moisture flow across the American West.
In a La Niña year, including last season's record snowfall totals, the north-central mountains of Colorado usually get the most snow.
That's the second such dusting up high so far this late summer, and it has snow riders digging out their gear and assessing their needs for the coming season.
Just to the east over Vail Pass in Summit County the snow seems to have been a bit more serious up high (see Arapahoe Basin photo and Summit County video), but it hardly matters since most of this white stuff will be long gone by the time snow guns crank up in earnest in October.Loveland and A-Basin will once again duel to be the first Colorado resort to open for the season – probably sometime in the first week of October.
Vail and Beaver Creek open on Friday, Nov. 18, and Wednesday, Nov. 23, respectively.
Weather watchers are calling for a warming trend this weekend, which is a lot easier to predict than what kind of winter snow riders can expect this coming season. Most models see a second straight La Niña season in which water temperatures in the Pacific determine the moisture flow across the American West.
In a La Niña year, including last season's record snowfall totals, the north-central mountains of Colorado usually get the most snow.
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