We keep hearing on the news how California is getting pummeled with rain. They've got flooding, non-stop rain, mud-slides, etc. And yet, the Denver area is dry, clear, and sunny (or at least only partly cloudy). All of the satellite photos show the jet stream carrying that massive storm directly toward Colorado. The Rockies are getting hit pretty hard. They expect 3-6 feet of snow to fall today in the Rockies, according to the radio news. And yet, we are partly sunny and 40-50 degrees. No rain, no snow. Nothing. Where is the storm disappearing to? Is there a massive vacuum in the Rockies that sucks the storm in before it can proceed to the Denver metro area? Is there a Bermuda Triangle for weather that exists somewhere between Grand Junction, Durango, and Boulder? Is the storm too wimpy to make it over the massive Rocky Mountains? Does it hit the multiple14,000 ft peaks and just stop in fear? Who knows? But, all I know is that we have yet to have a real storm in metro-Denver this winter. The 10 day weather report shows more partly sunny and 40+ degree weather for us. No snow. No crazy storms. Nothing. I'm bummed. I was really hoping for a white Christmas. I just don't understand where this storm disappeared to. I even watched the weather channel for a while yesterday evening to see if they would tell me. Nope. Can anyone explain where this crazy storm went?
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
The Storm Vacuum
We keep hearing on the news how California is getting pummeled with rain. They've got flooding, non-stop rain, mud-slides, etc. And yet, the Denver area is dry, clear, and sunny (or at least only partly cloudy). All of the satellite photos show the jet stream carrying that massive storm directly toward Colorado. The Rockies are getting hit pretty hard. They expect 3-6 feet of snow to fall today in the Rockies, according to the radio news. And yet, we are partly sunny and 40-50 degrees. No rain, no snow. Nothing. Where is the storm disappearing to? Is there a massive vacuum in the Rockies that sucks the storm in before it can proceed to the Denver metro area? Is there a Bermuda Triangle for weather that exists somewhere between Grand Junction, Durango, and Boulder? Is the storm too wimpy to make it over the massive Rocky Mountains? Does it hit the multiple14,000 ft peaks and just stop in fear? Who knows? But, all I know is that we have yet to have a real storm in metro-Denver this winter. The 10 day weather report shows more partly sunny and 40+ degree weather for us. No snow. No crazy storms. Nothing. I'm bummed. I was really hoping for a white Christmas. I just don't understand where this storm disappeared to. I even watched the weather channel for a while yesterday evening to see if they would tell me. Nope. Can anyone explain where this crazy storm went?
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I want the sun back! Where has it gone? I haven't seen the sun, moon, stars, nothing but grey for alomst a week. :(, my dirt road is a muddy creek and its so foggy I can't even see my neighbors house. I hope you get your white Christmas but right now I would trade my storm for your sun.
They just reported on the news crawl at the bottom of the screen, we will be having 10 inches of rain tonight with thunder and lightening in the OC. The church roof is full of leaks and Ray climbs up there every day in the rain to add another tarp. Buckets everywhere. We're ok at home so far except for the ants who moved in because they are afraid of drowning.
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