Snow in Durango

[THE PILGRIM]

Am watching a live tv feed from Durango, CO on a local station.
It’s a hot air balloon flight in the Animas valley just N of Durango.
And it’s bone dry!
Not a bit of snow to be seen, not even on the foothills.
Durango and the surrounding areas should be solid white on 2 Feb!

 

[Peak53]

Yep. Most of Colorado, with the exception of the far northern mountain ranges, is very dry this year. I'm about 150 miles northeast of Durango in the central mountains (at 10,000 feet) and currently have 15" on the ground with a recorded snowfall of 57" for the season. My snowmobiles are mostly idle. On this date last year, I had 37" and 140" respectively. If Feb-March doesn't come in big, watch out for big plumes of smoke to your north come summer

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Yep. Most of Colorado, with the exception of the far northern mountain ranges, is very dry this year. I'm about 150 miles northeast of Durango in the central mountains (at 10,000 feet) and currently have 15" on the ground with a recorded snowfall of 57" for the season. My snowmobiles are mostly idle. On this date last year, I had 37" and 140" respectively. If Feb-March doesn't come in big, watch out for big plumes of smoke to your north come summer

Always good to get a report from Tincup!
Some folks tend to ignore it, but not me!

 

[BigBill]

We have a big cold front dipping down from canada now, we could get what amounts of snow were missing one shot..? We have enough time yet to get hammered.

 

[Whitwabit]

isn't Durango high desert ?? How much snow do they get ?? I know from camping there its been very dry in the summer when we've been there ....

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Durango gets an average of 71 inches of snow.
Usually right now it should have full snow coverage.
You head N out of Aztec, NM.
The road follows the Animas River.
As you approach Durango, the canyon narrows and the road climbs out up on the Mesa.
Regular normal - when you climb up on the Mesa, you get into snow.
Regular normal - you stay in snow until you go back downhill toward NM.

 

[Bill Bates]

Here in Utah it has been very dry and warm. I've only shoveled snow once. So, Not much snow here this year. Snowpack is pretty much 50% and less throughout most of the state. Of course the good part is we have moved from a nice Fall into a nice Spring with a couple little snowstorms in between. The bad part is I may have to cut water completely out of my diet this summer.

 

[Peak53]

Tincup Update

With very little snow in the forecast I decided to ride the old trail sled the six miles down to the Trading Post while I could. It is 38° today which is pretty much unheard of. Then brought the truck up to within a mile of the cabin. Had to walk the last mile where I have the new snow machine to use to get back and forth to the truck....until it snows again ... in which case I may be trying to drive out in a blizzard. Yeah, right

 

[gtk]

just wait till next winter.. i'm supposed to move to CO this summer, so i'm sure the worst winter in a long long time will follow, just so the folks back home who said, "why do you want to live where its so cold and there is so much snow", will be right..

 

[snuffy51]

We have already had our 1 1/2" snow for this year.

 

[arjay]

Was on the south side of Guanella pass yesterday at 10,000' or so.It was snowing and blowing for awhile,but the snowpack was only a foot or two where we were