picture above: the Upper East River valley with the first early season snow higher up, September 01.
Today's weather, Tuesday, September 29: clear and cool, then steady warming through the morning.
The Live Station Camera, below, is located just north of Gothic at the weather station. Current status is: ON
--Current view: Gothic Mountain
--This is a live feed camera, but on clear, calm days it will look more like a still picture. Note that unless the moon is up very little to nothing will be visible at night.
-- usually if there is little to no visibility the camera will focus on the nearby road, the snow board, the river or other close views
-- you can back track on the view by up to 12 hours by using the time bar at the bottom of the feed
-- there is sometimes a delay or a slow connection. If so you can go directly to the YouTube page by clicking here
--Current view: Gothic Mountain
--This is a live feed camera, but on clear, calm days it will look more like a still picture. Note that unless the moon is up very little to nothing will be visible at night.
-- usually if there is little to no visibility the camera will focus on the nearby road, the snow board, the river or other close views
-- you can back track on the view by up to 12 hours by using the time bar at the bottom of the feed
-- there is sometimes a delay or a slow connection. If so you can go directly to the YouTube page by clicking here
Live Camera North, is located just just north of Gothic at the weather station. Current status is: ON
Current view: Mt Bellview
You can go directly to the camera on the Tube page by clicking here
Today's weather data for Gothic, September 29, 2020 as of 12:15 p.m. MDT
Low temperature: -5½ºC (22ºF)
High temperature: 17ºC (63ºF)
Current temperature: 17ºC (63ºF)
Cloud cover: clear
Wind: 2-6 SW
Precipitation sunset September 27 to sunrise September 28: with 0 cm (0") new snow containing 0.00 of water content, 0.00 rain
Precipitation sunrise to sunset today: with 0 cm (0") new snow containing 0.00 water content, 0.00 rain
Precipitation today: currently none, with 0 cm (0") snow containing 0.00 water, 0.00 rain
Current snow pack: 0 cm (0")
Winters deepest snow pack: 15 cm (6") on September 09
Total snowfall this winter: 23 cm (9") as of sunrise September 29
Total water content from snow (SWE) this winter: 1.07 as of sunrise September 29
Total rain this snow-year, starting September 01: 0.20 as of sunrise September 29
Total precipitation for the snow year: 1.27" as of sunrise September 29
Low temperature: -5½ºC (22ºF)
High temperature: 17ºC (63ºF)
Current temperature: 17ºC (63ºF)
Cloud cover: clear
Wind: 2-6 SW
Precipitation sunset September 27 to sunrise September 28: with 0 cm (0") new snow containing 0.00 of water content, 0.00 rain
Precipitation sunrise to sunset today: with 0 cm (0") new snow containing 0.00 water content, 0.00 rain
Precipitation today: currently none, with 0 cm (0") snow containing 0.00 water, 0.00 rain
Current snow pack: 0 cm (0")
Winters deepest snow pack: 15 cm (6") on September 09
Total snowfall this winter: 23 cm (9") as of sunrise September 29
Total water content from snow (SWE) this winter: 1.07 as of sunrise September 29
Total rain this snow-year, starting September 01: 0.20 as of sunrise September 29
Total precipitation for the snow year: 1.27" as of sunrise September 29
"If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain" -Steven Wright
"The wind shows us how close to the edge we are". ~Joan Didion
"Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together". ~Vista M. Kelly
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."- Winston Churchill. VOTE in November.
"The wind shows us how close to the edge we are". ~Joan Didion
"Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together". ~Vista M. Kelly
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."- Winston Churchill. VOTE in November.
What is New and other Notes: September 01 starts my new 'snow year'. The weather bureau and other weather organizations start the snow year October 01 but back when i started doing the weather it made more sense to me to start Sept. 01 as that was the month when the permanent winter snow pack- especially at higher elevations- would start, though it no longer does.
This past winter finished with a whooping 28 more days at or above freezing than the average for a winter. Every month this winter was above average for this number. This March, 2020 had the most days at or above freezing that any March winter on record at 29 days.
This past winter had one of the least number of days with snow on the ground on record. You can see that on the yearly ground cover table.
Added a video February 25, 2020 of small slides running off Gothic Mountain and getting blown back up in strong wind on the Photos and videos page (which has little else on it but I will work on that, a, well, some day). This goes with a video of an avalanche on the same page. which ran on Gothic May 11,2019 Best to enlarge it to full screen. It starts top left and ends bottom right.
For a great hour by hour weather forecast for Gothic go to the Colorado Avalanche Information Gothic weather forecast page.
This past winter finished with a whooping 28 more days at or above freezing than the average for a winter. Every month this winter was above average for this number. This March, 2020 had the most days at or above freezing that any March winter on record at 29 days.
This past winter had one of the least number of days with snow on the ground on record. You can see that on the yearly ground cover table.
Added a video February 25, 2020 of small slides running off Gothic Mountain and getting blown back up in strong wind on the Photos and videos page (which has little else on it but I will work on that, a, well, some day). This goes with a video of an avalanche on the same page. which ran on Gothic May 11,2019 Best to enlarge it to full screen. It starts top left and ends bottom right.
For a great hour by hour weather forecast for Gothic go to the Colorado Avalanche Information Gothic weather forecast page.
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Today's Gothic Bird sightings. I am done listing daily bird siting's as there are too many and I do not have the time. This will have to wait until next winter to start up.
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looking down valley towards Gothic as vegetation changes to fall, Sept. 02
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Deer in the aspens after a early season snow, Sept. 09
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Gothic Weather Page Index:
Home page (this page- if you lived here you'd be home already)
Current year daily written summary
2019 weather description- daily written summary for the calendar year 2019
2018 weather description- daily written summary for the calendar year 2018
2017 weather description- daily summary for the calendar year 2017
2016 weather description- the last months of 2016 a written out daily weather summary description
notes on this site: explains what things mean and sampling methods, as well as a short video of the data site
contact- where you can send requests or suggestions about this web site from. Please do. (you don't write, you don't call. Was it something I said?)
Data: summary page and description of data
Daily data, current year- daily weather data for the current year
2019 daily data- daily weather data for the 2019 calendar year.
2018 daily data- daily weather data for the 2018 calendar year.
2017 daily data- daily weather data for the 2017 calendar year.
2016 daily data- daily weather data for the 2016 calendar year.
weekly weather summary- the past weeks weather summary and this winter's weather compared to the past 46 winters.
long term snow- snow totals month by month, and snow year by snow year, since fall, 1974 in both centimeters and inches
long term water- month by month and snow year by snow year water content of the snowfall
ground cover- the dates and number of consecutive days of snow on the ground for each winter, as well as date of snow melt drop under 100 and 50 cm
daily high temperature => freezing- this table shows the number of days in each winter month over the years in which the daily high reached or surpassed freezing, the temperature when snow would melt
Records: this area will have info on the number of records, such as most snow on a given date, highest temperature and so on
records by winter: showing each winter and the number of record highs, lows, days with most snow etc. since 1974 as well as other info pertinent to that winter.
record summary table: a quick-look summary table of the records by winter
Monthly Data: The title page has all summarized data for each month for November through May starting in the fall of 1974 up until the current listed chronologically. The individual months below of June through October start from the 2000-2001 winter to current only, except for snow totals.
September- summary for September, 2000-2019
October- summary for October, 2000-2019
November- summary for November, 1974-2019
December- summary for December, 1974-2019
January- summary for January, 1975-2020
February- summary for February, 1975-2020
March- summaries for March, 1975-2020
April- summary for April, 1975-2020
May- summary for May, 1975-2020
June- summary for June, 2000-2020
July- summary for July, 2001-2020
August- summary for August, 2001-2020
Other Info- just a heading page for the underlying categories
animals- notes on siting and activity of winter animal life, updated June 29
avalanches- a general overlook of the snow conditions around Gothic
photos and videos- an archive of photos that were on various site pages (in progress- well, actually little there to see)
ski and road- mostly general ski conditions for the area to and around Gothic, though in early and late winter road opening becomes important. Last update September 15.
links- links to other web sites people may find helpful
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Thank you to Greg of the Desert Research Institute and Brian of Slopeside Technology for their support in maintaining instrumentation. Also to Dan Jones for equipment assistance and station set-up, and for Art Mears for advice, input and data analysis.
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