Saturday, January 3, 2009: Snowing lightly. Temperatures variations for January 1-3
are shown above (scaled in Fahrenheit on the left). Light blue shows wind gusts
(scaled in mph on the right). Yellow shows solar radiation. Barometer is shown in grey.
WoW! Grand Lake had an amazing fireworks show for New Years Eve with hundreds
and hundreds of people enjoying the show in mild temperatures for this time of the year.
Photos below are taken low to show the spectators. People also viewed the fireworks
from across Shadow Mountain Lake, Woodpecker Hill and Shadow Park West condominiums.
Crowd to the east. Crowd to the west is illuminated below.
The Denver Boat Show will be January 15-19 at the
Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. Visit us at our booth
and escape from winter! Show Hours are Thursday 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.,
Friday noon to 9 p.m.,Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
On Friday and Saturday night there will be a "Boat Show Beach Party" with
with the Tropical Coyotes setting the beat! Contests and prizes for everyone.
Last year's show was a 40 million dollar display of summertime toys
(not counting are own listings). Winter is when water-lovers order a boat
or to make an offer on a home (or land) to ensure that it will be ready
for Summer of 2009 for guests or to start new construction.
Monday morning, December 29, 2008: Moose on the loose.
Monday morning, December 29, 2008: 4 of 7 bull moose along Road 41.
Christmas Eve, 2008: View across Grand Lake to the Never Summer Mountains.
Close up of Bowen Mountain from the scene above.
Click here for Winter Park and Mary Jane Snow Report.
Click here for snow depths at all of Colorado's Ski Resorts.
Wednesday eve, December 17, 2008: 
BEST HOLIDAY
Lights! You have to See and Hear this one, 2 miles up County Road 4
from Hwy. 34 at the home right by the National Forest line. Tune your
car radio to FM 90.7. Show starts on the hour from 5 to 9 pm.
Dancing snow sprites, fountains of lights, shimmering music.
30 minute show, bring a hot beverage! Road 4 meets Hwy 34 at the
large storage area across from Dillie Docks. It is the main route for
snowmobilers heading to the "Idle Glenn" staging area, one mile into
the National Forest. There is also a very large lighting display at a home
one mile up Road 4, from Hwy 34. Drive around the block and experience
it from every angle. If you come in our office, you can get a with a map
to this area that highlights homes and land for sale.
Monday, December 29, 2008: Apache Peak on the Continental Divide
in the Indian Peaks Wilderness
Click here to reach our High Definition Weather Cam by Grand Lake
Date and time info has been removed. If you right click on an image you
might get some time info. All images are erased after a week so you'll never
see a really old image unless you need to clear your cache.
We are still trying to figure out technical difficulties with the camera below:
Click here for live views of our weather-maker Arapaho Peak!
This camera will be reset. Maybe the puppy chewed the cable!
Sun & Moon for Thursday, December 25, 2008:
First hint of dawn at 6:54 am
Sunrise: 7:24 am. Sunset: 4:43 pm
Last hint of twilight and alpenglow at 5:14 pm
Moon: vanishing crescent setting at 3:05 pm
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Grand Lake is about 8400' high (2570 meters).
Latitude = 40.2° North; Longitude = 105.8º West.
The best prognosticator of our weather is the serpentine Jet Stream.
.... Sunday Jet Stream ..... Monday Jet Stream ..... Tuesday Jet Stream .....
.... Wednesday Jet Stream .... Thursday Jet Stream .... Friday Jet Stream .....
.... Saturday Jet Stream ..... (use your back button to return here)
A huge amount of moisture is carried in this lofty stream. When it is
flows over Colorado, we get lots of rain and snow. Often a high pressure
dome in Utah causes the jet stream to arch far to the north of Colorado.
Our precipitation (if any) is then quick (with rain and rainbows) and
concentrated around our higher ridges and peaks. Climate models for the
northern Colorado Mountains are remarkably uncertain. There is a well
understood branch of the jet stream through Montana and Yellowstone
National Park in northern Wyoming. There is also a predictable branch
through Arizona and southern Colorado. We are between these branches
and in a very difficult to predict area. Our weather is often the inverse of
what is occurring in Denver and Boulder; media reports on Colorado are
often quite misleading for Grand County.
For our high and rugged setting, our weather is remarkably sunny. We have
deep, verdant forests and enough snow in the winter to give Winter Park,
Colorado the highest ten year average for snow among all of Colorado's ski
resorts. How do we manage to sneak in enough rain and snow to fill our lakes
and water our forests and yet provide hundreds of beautiful days for relaxing,
skiing and snowmobiling? The key is our unique location on the west slope of
the Continental Divide where it projects further to the east than anywhere else
in North America. Arapaho Peak defines this eastern most projection.
The weather station generating our graphs is in a forested setting
8550' high. The anemometer for measuring wind speeds is set fairly high,
but is moderated by its surrounding forest. Wind gusts on the lakes
(or on a ski slope) can be much higher than what we experience in the forests.
Selected instrument readings are shown depending on which parameters have
recently given interesting variations. Fluctuations in the yellow solar radiation
graph are caused by passing clouds.As data is accumulated, we will provide
pages giving monthly and annual trends. Our data collection began near the
end of July of the year 2000.
A few weeks after scenery and sports images are removed from
this weather page, they often reappear on our Scenery page.