Snow for Labor Day 2020

[MoreSkiing]

Maybe foot of snow! https://snowbrains.com/rocky-mounta...2ht5DMq9Xnhk1GhfBGH2MdnC95avEkuPV6dsbD0brBzaI

 

[marzNC]

Still on it's way. Could get significant depth down to 4000 ft, which is pretty low in September. Perhaps even a few inches in Denver!

Here's a long explanation of the entire storm system by a young meteorologist who lives in CA. Posted on Sept. 6 so already a little out of date.

 

[Jilly]

Lake Louise had a dusting this morning too!

 

[RachelV]

It's cooling off outside pretty quick at this point. I'll post snow pics tomorrow!!

 

[RachelV]

P.S. If anyone is interested in nerding out over Front Range weather, these 2 sites are both consistently good:

https://www.weather5280.com/
https://www.bouldercast.com/

 

[RachelV]

Just really starting to stick around 5pm. It's supposed to snow until dawn, basically. We'll see where we end up!

 

[Jilly]

Just looked at the snow stake at A Basin, approx 5:30 their time. Lots of snow!!

 

[Abbi]

My friend outside Salt Lake City sent a picture of snow on the peaks looking out of her house! It was 90 yesterday! And the air quality from the California fires kept her inside all day. Whatever the weather is you can count it will change!

 

[bsskier]

Snowed nicely in Big Sky on Monday too.

 

[vickie]

At 7 PM, the maple tree was getting heavy with snow. The ends of those branches are about 2 feet lower than normal:


The early snow was really heavy and wet. I hope that helps with the wildfires.

 

[vickie]

Tree in my front yard -- stuff hanging down is as close as 6 inches to the street, usually about 7 feet up. I was planning to have the trees trimmed as soon as their leaves turn. I hope the branches are able to get through this storm intact.

 

[Christy]

We were supposed to be backpacking in the Wallowas right now but with this arctic front, we hunkered down to wait it out. Temps down into the teens and winds of 50 mph. I will give that a pass when backpacking. Dry as a bone here though.

I hope @Kimmyt's garden is okay. What happens to tomatoes when they are snowed on?

 

[Kimmyt]

We were supposed to be backpacking in the Wallowas right now but with this arctic front, we hunkered down to wait it out. Temps down into the teens and winds of 50 mph. I will give that a pass when backpacking. Dry as a bone here though.

I hope @Kimmyt's garden is okay. What happens to tomatoes when they are snowed on?

My husband and I spent some quality time two days ago doing our best with the garden. I harvested most of the tomatos, including green ones. Anything with a blush on it will ripen on my windowsill, and the purely green ones I will make into fried green tomatos (for blt's) or salsa. I have several colanders of cherries and slicing tomatos in varying stages or ripeness on my counters. I brought inside all of my succulents from the deck, that i usually have outside all summer, and my lemon tree. I had my tomatillos in pots, and I haven't been able to harvest them yet as they got off to a late start. We used the garden wagon to move the grow bags into the shed (2 tomatillos, 1 watermelon with three fruits on it, 1 cantelope that decided to last miunute throw out another 2 fruits but I'm not sure if we will get enough time to ripen them). I'll put them back outside this weekend when its 80 again. There were still a few regular tomatos on the plant I just left on, and tons of cherries, so we wrapped the whole garden plot in a big tarp and several blankets underneath. I'm not holding my breath, but if they are saved then we'll have more tomatos once we work our way through the other ones. Our peppers did terrible this year, so it wasn't a huge loss, and our cucumbers and green beans were mostly done anyway. I left the kale, it should survive a few days of cold, and threw a blanket over the cabbage as I wasn't sure how it would handle the cold temps. Carrots should be fine and the lettuce seeds I just planted for fall should actually love this moisture.

I did have to spend some time this morning in my bathrobe and snow boots, knocking 3-4" of heavy snow and ice off my poor baby trees in my yard that were near bent in half with the weight on their leaves. Most of them should recover, though one of our maples was tall enough I couldn't get it completely straightened so it might be crooked for the next year until it straightens up. We'll see.

Fun times!