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picture above: The upper East River valley, June 01.  Mt Bellview and Avery mountains, with the green of spring as winter takes a short rest.
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Today's Weather, Friday, June 13: clear and mild with gradual warming through the morning.

                                                                                                    Live Station Cameras
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The Station Camera, below, is located at the weather station.  
--Current view:  Gothic Mountain 
--The windy.com web page has taken the camera put it on a fast 24-hour run-through.   You can clink on the station camera to see it.
​-- usually if there is little to no visibility the camera will focus on either the nearby road area, the snow board, 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

The Up Valley Camera, below, is located north of the station.
​Current view:  the upper East River valley
​​--You can go directly to the camera on the You​Tube page by clicking here
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--the camera will be pointed to the East River below the station whenever there is strong winter down valley wind

Today's weather data and summary for Gothic, June 13, 2025, as of 1:10 p.m. MDT
Low temperature: 2ºC (36ºF)
High Temperature: 20½ºC (69ºF)
Current temperature: 20½ºC (69ºF)
Cloud cover:  clear
Wind: 3-6 W, gusts to 16;  today's strongest wind at 16 mph W
Precipitation sunset June 12 to sunrise June 13: 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") new snow containing 0.00" water content, 0.00" rain
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​Current snowpack: 0 cm (0")
Average snowpack, at sunset June 12 is 2 cm (1")(from 1988 on)
Current snowpack 100% below average for this date (as of sunrise)
Snow water content (SWE) of snowpack to the nearest half inch: 0" (last year was 0", 2023 was 0")
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Precipitation data this snow year (starting September 01) as of sunrise June 13
​Winters deepest snowpack: 160 cm (63") on February 15
Total snowfall this winter: 573 cm (225") 
Average total snowfall, at sunset, June 12, is 1019 cm (401")
Total snowfall is 44% below average for this date 
(as of sunrise)
Total water content from snowfall (SWE) this winter is 19.28"
Average water content from snow, at sunset, June 12, is 26.85"
Average water content from snowfall is ​28% below average 
(as of sunrise)
Total rain this snow-year (since Sept. 01): 3.34" 
Total precipitation this snow-year: 22.62"

Kettle Ponds, about 2 miles south of the station, summary for today, June 13 at 1:10 p.m. MDT
Low temperature 3½ºC (38ºF)
High temperature 20½ºC (69ºF)
Strongest wind today is 33 mph W

Soil Temperature and Moisture Content for sunrise June 13: 
For complete data go to the soil temperature and moisture page, which was last updated through June 12 (usually updated every 5 days), as well as the links from there to the previous two years.  Check out the detailed numbers on that page to see the trends.  Any one day change (at sunrise) is shown below as ↑ going up, ↓ going down, → holding steady.
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At 5 cm (2") below surface:       soil temperature average 51.8ºF, ↓  soil moisture content 11% ↓
At 10 cm (4") below surface:     soil temperature average 56.3ºF, ↓  soil moisture content 15% →
At 20 cm (8") below surface:     soil temperature average 57.5ºF, ↑  soil moisture content 19% →
At 50 cm (20") below surface:   soil temperature average 50.9ºF, ↑  soil moisture content 27% ↓

What is New and other Notes:  This winter, through May, was the 4th lowest total winter snowfall (573 cm, 225½") of any winter since snowfall data was started in 1974 (51 winters), behind the winters of 1976-77 (474 cm, 186½" ), 2017-18 (490 cm, 193") and 2020-21 (561  cm, 221").  It was 44th of 51 winters in water content of fallen snow. That was bit of an increase in density ranking over snowfall, though still very bad.  Summer snowfall is still possible but not enough so that it would chance these rankings.

Check out the long-term snow and the long-term water from snowfall tables, done through May.  Of all the winters months, only November, by just 2½ cm (1"), had more snow than the monthly average.

Updated with May the number of days in a given month where the temperature reached freezing or above, which has now been 15 winter months in a row and 56 of the past 60.

Updated the Daily Winter Averages table through May 31, done for the winter

In weather daily extremes, April started slowly but then came record high temperatures on April 10, 11 and 12 and a record warmest daily low on April 13, but nothing again until tying the record high on April 26.  There were no record extremes in May, and this is it for the winter months.   For all extremes of weather go to the records by winter and the records summary tables. 

With now 11 winters in a row (including this winter) having had below average snowfall, and only one winter in the last 14, this sadly is becoming the "new normal", not just a few dry winters. 

The February 07 low temperature of ½ºC (33ºF) was the first day since September 30 with the daily low above freezing, and the first time in 51 years that there was a 24-hour low in any daily February temperature that was above freezing.
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​​​​For a detailed hour by hour weather forecast for Gothic go to the Colorado Avalanche Information Gothic weather forecast page. ​
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Daily animal sitings are done until next fall as there are too many.  For now i will just list what is around:
Bird Sightings:   
Stellar Jay                                                 Gray Jay
​Mountain Chickadee                              Black Capped Chickadee
​Pine Grosbeak                                         Red Crossbill

​American Robin                                       American Crow
Magpie                                                       Downy Woodpecker
Red Breasted Nuthatch                          White Breasted Nuthatch
​Northern Flicker                                      Red Napped Sapsucker 

Dark Eyed Junco                                       Ruby Crowned Kinglet
Fox Sparrow                                             ​White Crowned Sparrow 
Broad Tailed Hummingbird                   
House Wren 
Olive Sided Flycatcher                             Western Flycatcher 
Violet- Green Swallow                            Brown Headed Cowbird 
Yellow Warbler ​                                        Yellow Rumped Warbler 
Canada Geese                                          Mallard 

Pine Siskin                                                 Red Winged Blackbird
Mountain Bluebird                                   Green Tailed Towhee
Animal Sightings:  ​
​tree squirrel- 
​Red Fox- 
​Deer Mouse- 
chipmunk- 
golden mantled ground squirrel- 

​Long Tailed weasel- 
Short tailed weasel- 
​snowshoe hare- 
​marmot- 
Mule Deer- 

​Moose- 
​Elk- 

​coyote- 
pine marten- 


"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
"Only the mediocre are always at their best" -
Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley (Al Franken) ​

Some pictures of the area:
Picture
April 26, the East River opens as a beaver dam so far survives spring run-off
Picture
May 01, road plowed to just up the hill out of Gothic where a berm was plowed to stop cars until the road was opened
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          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:  data summary page 
     Daily data, current year, 2025
          2024 daily data- daily weather data for the 2024 calendar year.
​          2023 daily data- daily weather data for the 2023 calendar year.
          2022 daily data- daily weather data for the 2022 calendar year.
          2021 daily data- daily weather data for the 2021 calendar year.
          2020 daily data- daily weather data for the 2020 calendar 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-  this page has been discontinued but the data from it can be found above on the Daily Data and Summary table
​    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
    soil temperature and moisture-  temperature information from underground at four different depths as well as the moisture content of the soil at those            depths
     daily high temperature => freezing- this table shows the number of days over the years ​ in each winter month where 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, except for snow totals which date back to 1974.
   September- summary for September, 2000-2024
   October- summary for October, 2000-2024
   November- summary for November, 1974-2024
   December- summary for December, 1974-2024
   January- summary for January, 1975-2025
   February- summary for February, 1975-2025
   March- summaries for March, 1975-2025
   April- summary for April, 1975-2025
   May- summary for May, 1975-2025
   June- summary for June, 2001-2024
   July- summary for July, 2001-2024
   August- summary for August, 2001-2024
Other Info- just a heading page for the underlying categories
   animals- notes on siting and activity of winter animal life, updated May 15 as this page is active again with the start of spring
   photos and videos- an archive of photos that were on various site pages (in progress- well, actually little there to see)
   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; for David Inouye and Art Mears and for advice, input and data analysis; and Jessica Lundquist for the online water content of the snowpack (snow pillows).  
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