They got massively clobbered by a storm that not only caused tremendous flooding, but included golfball-sized hail and lightning. Huge numbers of cars damaged or totaled, not to mention houses. They're going to be assessing damage for days. The photos are pretty nasty.

Meanwhile, the USA is still having lots of fun with tornadoes and such. I ( Read more... )

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Another "bomb cyclone" hit in Colorado, and we once again were on the fringe. Warnings of 75 MPH winds, woohoo. Russet went down to get a haircut and to attend a retirement board meeting - she's got 22 years in at the observatory and decided it was time to get some info. So I'm sitting up here with the dogs, listening to limbs of various sizes ( Read more... )

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My apologies for a lack of replies, it hasn't been the best of days ( Read more... )

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The storm broke up early this morning or some time, and we had blue skies and sunshine on the top of the mountain. The snow plows were able to clear the roads, and I imagine lots of people were able to get up to the ski resort and have fun ( Read more... )

Weatherbug has been reporting a winter storm warning over the last couple of days for this weekend forecasting 40 MPH winds and 12-20 inches of snow. The winds at the observatory last night were gusting to 80 MPH and consistently over 40. People were trapped in other buildings because it was too risky to leave where they were and get to the main ( Read more... )

Right now we're getting our first real snow of the year, we had an attempt at one the week before last, but it was too warm and stood no chance of persisting. This one should be good for at least three days, depending on the crap shoot of weather prognostication ( Read more... )

Coming down quite well, but it's only 29f outside, so it's going to be gone quite quickly.

The poodle is not happy.