Morning sun breaks through the clouds to highlight last night’s bounty — several inches of beautiful, white, wet snow. The forecast is for 4-6 inches more tonight. After a desperately dry summer and an ongoing fire season that Coloradans will never forget, snow on the plains is a welcome sight.
This will be a big assist to the firefighters still battling the Fern Lake Fire in Rocky Mountain National Park. Formerly about 700 acres with 30% containment, the fire broke out to the west this week and now stands at 1,030 acres with only 17% containment. With the steep, heavily wooded terrain virtually inaccessible to ground personnel, the intention is just to contain the fire until winter snows finally extinguish it.
(Photo is a screenshot from a webcam in Louisville, Colo., midway between Denver and Boulder.)
Categories: Rocky Mtn Natl Park
Why they close Trail Ridge Road 
Dawn on Trail Ridge Road 
Trail Ridge Road officially closed for the season 
Tranquility base 
Here in Joplin Missouri it was 70 degrees and breezy when we went to the gym this morning. Forty minutes later when we came out it was 52 degrees and dropping, with rain. Ouch. But glad to hear about your silver lining out there!
Sorry about that. I’d have kept all that cold and wet right here if I could have. But we’ll take what we can get. Supposed to be back in the 60s by Monday.
TX is sweltering with 90’s. DC has been drizzling, misty, 70’s. (hurricane on way next week?)
Hope the snow drifts in to the right spots in the park. (and I’d rather be in that top pix!)
90s, still? Yuck. I am so over 90s and even 80s for the year.
Judging from the webcams around Estes, I’d say the fire got powdered lightly last night. And its snowing again now. Would be nice if the wind would just drive it all into deep drifts around the fire.
Beautiful! Yeah, this front finally dropped our temps down much closer to normal. Although I think now they’re below normal.
I LOVE cooler weather. You can remind me I said that in a couple of months when it’s been in the teens for a week.
LOL.. I know. I’m the same way. I love the change of seasons. But after the cold sets in, or the heat, I’m ready for that season to end.