Weather: Enjoy the warmth and sun today; possible snow tomorrow
By Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published January 2, 2009 at 7:10 a.m.
Updated January 2, 2009 at 1:46 p.m.
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Use our interactive radar tool to view spot, local and national weather conditions, including real-time cloud cover.Highs in the 60s today, snow on Saturday.
Any doubt that this is Colorado, land of eternally changing weather, ought to disappear in the face of today's forecast.
Brisk winds should dissipate this morning, giving way to a partly sunny day with a high of about 62, a couple dozen degrees warmer than typical for early January.
Tonight will get cloudy, dipping to 28.
And Saturday has a fairly good chance of snow after 11 in the morning. The high should reach just 35, with winds out of the northeast. Any snow accumulation should be less than an inch.
Saturday night will get much colder, with a low around 7.
Sunday will be partly sunny, like today, but with a high of 29 — some 33 degrees lower than today's high.
Monday should be mostly sunny with a high near 40 and Tuesday about the same with a high near 43.
Highs Wednesday and Thursday should be around 50.
Grand Junction on the other side of the mountains will top out at 27 today. It, too, could get snow on Saturday.
Most of the roads are dry, but Loveland, Berthoud and Vail passes and the Eisenhower Tunnel — and some of the other usual suspects — have icy spots.
Vail and the ski resorts of Summit and Eagle counties should be dry today, but could get snow every day from Saturday to Wednesday.
Vail's high today should be about 40.
On Saturday, up to 7 inches of new snow could fall, as the high reaches just 22.
The eastern Plains will share the urban corridor's good weather today, but it will be a bit windier, with sustained speeds of 15 mph.
Pueblo could see 65 today.
Denver's December was a cold one. In fact, it was on pace to be one of the top 10 Decembers of all time, until about the 23rd, when things warmed up a bit, say National Weather Service meteorologists.
The month finished with above-average snowfall. The total of 10.3 inches was a couple inches above normal.
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January 2, 2009
10:05 a.m.
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HopiMedicineMan writes:
As a global warming atheist, I find these scientific studies that are largely ignored by the media. A recent British study shows declining temps are coming as a result of declining carbon dioxide. To hedge the next ice age, we need massive new carbon deposits in the atmosphere to hold what little heat is escaping. Suddenly, the sun is in hibernation, the earth losing a point centigrade in the last year. This is significant cooling. Loss of another point in ’09 and the masses will be demanding more carbon please.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetec...
January 2, 2009
10:58 a.m.
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SPL writes:
@Hopi - Your comments have nothing to do with the link you posted. I'm sorry you can't see what the majority of the evidence points to, but the sun is not suddenly in hibernation (a daft statement if ever there was one), the atmosphere has not lost 1 degree celsius (not centigrade) in the last year.
The article says we are heading for another ice age - well duh! Any biosciences graduate and/or well-read person knows the Earth goes through orbital cycles which affect the climate. Hopefully I won't be around in 10'000 to 100'000 to see it.
January 2, 2009
12:41 p.m.
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ThingFish writes:
HopiMedicineMan,
Good thing that your uneducated opinion means nil.
January 2, 2009
1:27 p.m.
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truth22 writes:
Yeah, global warming my eye!!!
January 2, 2009
1:55 p.m.
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HolierThanThou writes:
Professor Crowley said the stark findings do not mean we should stop fighting warming.
But he urged: ‘Don’t push the panic button.’
‘There’s no excuse for saying “we’ve got to keep pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere,”’ he told Reuters.
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HopiMedicineMan needs to work on his reading comprehension before we may expect him to be scientifically literate. The Hopi reservation has an excellent school. Evidently, he did not attend classes there.
January 2, 2009
6:33 p.m.
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HopiMedicineMan writes:
The sun is hibernating because sun spot activity is dorment. The term hibernation is a metaphor. One thing liberals don't get is metaphors. There's no difference between centigrade and celsius. I went to a school in Lakewood. We used centigrade. Is your usage "acid or basic" or "acid and alkaline? Holier Than Thou knows NOTHING about the Hopi reservation. And he's about as racist as you can get in that regard. He assumes I'm a cloistered Indian. Now what's your evidence for global warming, Holier?
January 2, 2009
6:37 p.m.
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HopiMedicineMan writes:
I almost never encounter racism from conservatives. It always comes from leftists like Holier Than Thou. Now he's bested by one he considers inferior, someone from the reservation. That is racism in it's most basic form, assumptions based in stupidity. And it's always from the left. Stay in your place Indian. You don't know what your talking about.
January 2, 2009
6:46 p.m.
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HopiMedicineMan writes:
When are the people of this state, this country going to wake up to the reality of liberal racism? It is everywhere and the only place some of us experience it. Why can I go to a Republican meeting and be treated as everyone in the room. Mixing with Democrats anywhere and I'm to behave, keep my mouth shut, get back to the reservation or at least the trailer park. Well we sure found that out above didn't we. Holier showed us who he is. Indians who follow this take note. I know it's hard.
January 2, 2009
7:45 p.m.
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TheDenverB writes:
i don't think he's racist... i think you are a liar on an anonymous message board with no accountability for anything you say.
:)
January 2, 2009
9 p.m.
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DragonInTheSky writes:
Hopi..I find it quite amusing that you are accusing HolierThanThou of racism, while at the same time spitting fire and hatred towards "leftists" and "liberals".
You are the one who is prejudice!
January 2, 2009
9:04 p.m.
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DragonInTheSky writes:
What I truly don't understand is why you think liberals are your enemy and conservatives are your friend. It is the other way around Hopi! When will you figure this out?
January 3, 2009
9:25 a.m.
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JustSayin writes:
Umm - it's Saturday morning already - the day when the RNSnooze has the local paper scene to itself. But the web crew - they have the day off? This is still a top link on their initial web presence?
Decay and sloppiness....
January 4, 2009
10:27 a.m.
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SPL writes:
@ Hopi, Celsius is the name of the temperature scale that reads from -273 degrees upward, with 0 degrees for freezing water and 100 degrees for it's boiling point. Centigrade refers to a scale of numbers between 0 and 100 and is used as an incorrect term to describe temperature - otherwise I could describe a metric measurement in centigrade or anything else I wanted to divide into 100 segments.
Acid is acid, but basic and alkaline are not interchangeable. Acid refers to any substance on the pH scale between 1 and 6, and Basic refers to any substance on the pH scale between 8 and 14. Alkaline refers to the pH of a substance containing one of the alkali metals from group 1 of the periodic table.
Lastly, your use of hibernation as a metaphor isn't really accurate as the sun is not dormant. It has cycles which last around 11 years so it's hardly a cause for concern if we are in a cycle with less sunspots.
Time to go back to school maybe? Someone's comment about your reading comprehension was kinda accurate.
January 4, 2009
10:35 a.m.
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SPL writes:
Actually, the sun's activity is tied to the number of repubs in the senate
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/...