picture above: the Upper East River valley with Mt Bellview and the 'Avery complex' going up Copper Creek, December 2019
Today's weather, Sunday, March 29: becoming clear and cold overnight. Some scattered high clouds move in at sunrise and then build late morning to become cloudy by early afternoon with very light off and on snow late day.
The Live Station Camera, below, is located just north of Gothic at the weather station. Current status is: ON
--Current view: bird feeders
--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 4 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: bird feeders
--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 4 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 north of the station.
Current view: the East River slowly opening up
You can go directly to the YouTube page by clicking here
Today's weather data for Gothic, March 29, 2020 as of 6:10 p.m. MDT
Low temperature: -16½ºC (02ºF)
High temperature: ½ºC (33ºF)
Current temperature: -2ºC (28ºF)
Cloud cover: cloudy
Wind: 0-2 SW
Precipitation sunset March 28 to sunrise March 29: 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: 119 cm (47")
Winters deepest snow pack: 141 cm (55½") on March 21
Total snowfall this winter: 504 cm (198") as of sunrise March 29
Total water content from snow (SWE) this winter: 15.95 as of sunrise March 29
Total rain this snow-year, starting Sept. 01: 0.55 as of sunrise March 29
Total precipitation for the snow year: 16.50" as of sunrise March 29
Low temperature: -16½ºC (02ºF)
High temperature: ½ºC (33ºF)
Current temperature: -2ºC (28ºF)
Cloud cover: cloudy
Wind: 0-2 SW
Precipitation sunset March 28 to sunrise March 29: 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: 119 cm (47")
Winters deepest snow pack: 141 cm (55½") on March 21
Total snowfall this winter: 504 cm (198") as of sunrise March 29
Total water content from snow (SWE) this winter: 15.95 as of sunrise March 29
Total rain this snow-year, starting Sept. 01: 0.55 as of sunrise March 29
Total precipitation for the snow year: 16.50" as of sunrise March 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
"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
What is New and other Notes: this weeks weather summary is up. A mostly cloudy and bland week so the numbers stayed close to what they were the week before in regards to average, though snowpack dropped a bit as the snow from the week before settled a good bit.
the average number of days in March with the daily high temperature at or above freezing is 18.4 days. All but two days this month have done that already. You can see this data by clicking here.
Added the record for the most snow on a given date for March 19 on the winter records and the record summary pages. An ironic record for such a light snow winter.
started a daily bird sighting list on this page, below.
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.
the average number of days in March with the daily high temperature at or above freezing is 18.4 days. All but two days this month have done that already. You can see this data by clicking here.
Added the record for the most snow on a given date for March 19 on the winter records and the record summary pages. An ironic record for such a light snow winter.
started a daily bird sighting list on this page, below.
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. Rather than writing out each bird on a daily basis I will list the most common species and put an √ next any species seen that day.
Gray Jay Stellar Jay √ American Crow √ Magpie √ Hairy Woodpecker White Breasted Nuthatch Red Winged Blackbird American Robin Boreal Owl |
March 29: updated 12 p.m.; 8 species today, 0 new for the year in the past week. There are not that many in winter so do not expect much, and these are only the Gothic area.
Pine Grosbeak Grey Crowned Rosy Finch √ Brown Capped Rosy Finch √ Black Rosy Finch Mountain Chickadee √ Black Capped Chickadee √ Dark Eyed Junco √ |
North end of Gothic Mountain, Dec. 03
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Pine Marten resting in a tree, March 26
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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 2018 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 are 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, 1975-2019
April- summary for April, 1975-2019
May- summary for May, 1975-2019
June- summary for June, 2001-2019
July- summary for July, 2001-2019
August- summary for August, 2001-2019
Other Info- just a heading page for the underlying categories
animals- notes on siting and activity of winter animal life, updated March 18
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 February 04.
links- links to other web sites people may find helpful
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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 2018 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 are 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, 1975-2019
April- summary for April, 1975-2019
May- summary for May, 1975-2019
June- summary for June, 2001-2019
July- summary for July, 2001-2019
August- summary for August, 2001-2019
Other Info- just a heading page for the underlying categories
animals- notes on siting and activity of winter animal life, updated March 18
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 February 04.
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.