Blooming iris in the front yard. #SpringTime pic.twitter.com/Luy1jiQnA4
— ***Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) May 9, 2019
Blooming iris in the front yard. #SpringTime https://t.co/Luy1jiQnA4
Category: Weather (mine)
We appear to have survived the Bomb Cyclone
But my boss is stuck in Detroit
Deciding to not go into the office today was the right thing to do — they shut the building down around Noon, but it would have already been an ugly drive home.
In point of fact, especially with all the wind whipping even this heavy, wet snow around, the snow isn’t all that deep. It was the ice on the roads, and the 70-85 mph gusts, that led to road (and airport) closures, and lots of accidents on the highway.
My current plan is to try and make it into the office tomorrow. We’ll see how that goes. Meanwhile, Margie’s been making posole for dinner, so we’re doing well.
Note: the above is my first attempt to figure out an easy way to get photos from Google Photos over into self-hosted WordPress without plugins and similar goofiness. It’s not ideal, but it’s doable.
Beware the Bomb Cyclone!
It’s not enough to have just plain old blizzards any more
The phrase “bomb cyclone” (also known as ” explosive cyclogenesis” or by the possibly-even-creepier “bombogenesis”) actually means something, it seems — a “24-hour, 24-millibar drop in the pressure of a midlatitude storm.”
Which we’ve apparently had in Denver, so the snow storm blowing in today — a heavy but not insane several inches — is also accompanied by major winds, which have already caused damage around the metro area, and is making it a Major Weather Event.
The combo was already severe enough to warrant schools to close for today proactively (James is gnashing his teeth in California that his old high school got a pre-announced snow day), and a lot of businesses are closing as well.
I chose to work from home, even though my commute is pretty short — there was no official announcement made, but apparently most folk at the office chose likewise.
We have power and heat, and plentiful food and wine, and absolutely no need to go anywhere today* (or possibly tomorrow). As long as our Internet holds out, we’re in good shape. Indeed, the biggest problem we have at the moment is the wind blowing wet snow across the windows so that we can’t see out. Which is not a bad problem to have.
Do you want to know more? Bomb cyclone officially takes place over Colorado
*unlike my boss, who was supposed to be flying back to Denver today from Lithuania. I suspect that trip is not going to go well, given the 1000+ flights canceled at DEN.
“We All Scream …”
First ice cream truck of the season is trolling its way through the neighborhood. pic.twitter.com/2FQXIiY3m2
— Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) May 6, 2018
First ice cream truck of the season is trolling its way through the neighborhood. https://t.co/2FQXIiY3m2
Time for the Annual “Killing of the Apricot Blossoms” Festival!
End-of-Winter Wonderland
Had a typical Colorado March-April snowstorm blow through last night — big drop in temp, huge gush of wet snow covering everything.
Sunny today of course, with temps rising to the 70s over the course of the week. But this will help get the yard further jump-started.
Spring is Springing
I really don’t feel like we’ve had winter yet.
Not that we aren’t out of the woods (in Denver terms) for major snowfall. That said, and acknowledging that crocuses are crazy-early at the best of times, it still feels like spring is i-cummin in a wee bit too soon.
[picture credit: +Margie Kleerup]
Frost
Fall is falling
I love this time of year in Denver. The evenings are cooling off. The days are still warm enough to walk around in shorts and sandals. The yard is still green and blooming, even as the trees start to turn. Right now, we’ve got a bumper crop of butterflies in the neighborhood, enjoying all the flowers in our yard.
Good times.
Cold, but not all that snowy
As predicted, this was a "dry" storm, and the snow I saw on the ground this morning looked more like an inch than the 2-5 inches forecast.
But it's still bite-ass, well-below-freezing cold. My first real "very cold morning" with the new commute. It worked out okay, but I was plenty bundled up.
Arctic chill arrives in Colorado, bringing frigid temperatures and snow
After a high of 54 degrees Monday, temperatures will plummet Tuesday and the forecast calls for Denver to get up to four inches of snow.
Snowstormed
So it looks like about 10 inches overnight, which is a respectable amount. +Kay Hill is cheering (well, at the moment, snoring) over it being declared a Snow Day off from school, though I suspect that was less from the snow depth than from the icy nature of the roads last evening before the snow came down.
Anyhow. not going anywhere today, though we could if we needed to. Things are supposed to completely taper off soon, and we get to start to thaw out. Temps will get just high enough by Saturday to keep Superbowl Sunday from being too much of a mess.
A quiet, lazy evening
The snow meant no travel, which meant we were stuck hanging out at the house last night, which turned out to be (for the cats as well as ourselves) rather restful.
(Though I have no doubts the cats would have found it restful regardless.)
Snow Day (with pictures)
We got a fair amount of snow — and it's still coming down — but what probably caused more concern was the drifting from the wind.
We're supposed to get another 3" or so over the course of the day — which may mean some changes to plans for this evening (for better and worse).
Snow Day!
So +Kay Hill finally got a Snow Day off. Of course, it's the first day of finals, which will bollix up everything else, but, hey, Snow Day!
That's going to be a chilly parade
+Kay Hill's band is marching at Southglenn tomorrow night at 6 pm.
Appropriately enough, they are doing music from the movie Frozen.
We may stand inside the shops and wave as she goes by.
Not quite a "blizzard," but close enough
Rather than the 1-2 feet of snow that was predicted, we ended up with "only" 8 inches or so down in our part of the Denver metro area. Enough to make things pretty, not enough to call for a snow day or late start from +Kay Hill's school.
No tree damage, it seems, though there were still a few that had most of their leaves on.
Snow!
Finally getting a winter storm coming through Denver to dump some substantial snow. It's about time.
And, in personal news, my car is no longer on the driveway but in the garage, unsnowed-upon. Huzzah, and thanks again to +Jim-Ginger Kleerup for their help.
VICTORY!
The Kitchen Project is Officially Over. We finally (for the first time since February) got both cars back in the garage. And before the snowy season starts.
Of such things are a warm and fuzzy feeling made.
Fields of Gold
It rained/snows last night, the first true sign of the end-of-year seasons rolling in here in Denver. Taking a walk this afternoon, there were some of those magical moments where I passed through areas suffused in golden light from leaves on trees and the ground.
Which meant I stopped reading and started taking pictures of fall colors.
Being a California boy, having a true autumn never gets old for me.
So glad to see we’ve visiting Southern California *before* next week’s cold snap
So glad to see we’ve visiting Southern California *before* next week’s cold snap 80s-90s much better than 60s-70s, right? #markdonwedding