Some serious flooding going on in SW Colorado. That is US 160, underwater. Lightner Creek has topped her banks and is flowing across the highway, into my neighborhood. Wild stuff.
Our house is 20-30 feet higher than the creek. We’re fine. Some of our neighbors are not though.
The brand new ECMWF El Niño forecast has just arrived, and it's quite something.
It shows the El Niño peaking around or just above 4°C in December.
But what's most notable is the duration of record-breaking conditions, with with many members remaining above 3°C into April!
Pockets of peak color emerged rapidly last week in the high country of CO, nearly two weeks earlier than normal!
While leaf peeping is already well underway, we expect fall colors to be best over the next 2-3 weeks as large swaths of aspens that remain green begin to change.
I have been putting ChatGPT Astra through a pretty ridiculous test of building broadcast weather software for NCSU.
This kind of thing would have probably taken me 2-5 years of full-time development trying to learn Direct3D. I built this in a weekend.
Confrontation in Glacier National Park: Our camera person witnessed a confrontation in Glacier last week after a group of hikers confronted another group for being off trail and approaching several mountain goats.
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63 days later, flames are still burning on the Gold Mountain Fire near Ouray.
The fire is 39,744 acres and 87% contained. Crews are monitoring active areas along the Middle Fork of the Big Cimarron while some fire burns under supervision inside control lines.
08-28-2026 13:30:26
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Pinewood Springs, CO - Wildfire - Voluntary Evacuations ordered for residents in the area of Pinewood Springs and Blue Mountain. EVACUATION IS VOLUNTARY - GATHE https://t.co/1rWEGa5l43