To snow or not to snow?

I write this account on April 2, 2009, and as I do, a low-pressure system is racing from the Pacific Northwest towards Colorado. Winter Storm Warnings are in effect for the mountains, with a Winter Storm Watch for most of the lower elevations from El Paso and Teller counties northward.

How much snow you get depends on the track of that low. If it chooses to spend some time across northern New Mexico, your neighborhood becomes a winter wonderland.

If it takes a more northerly track, the real action will be over the mountains and from northern El Paso county northward, and this far in advance, it could still take either track......but.....

The computer models we use to help forecast the tracks of incoming storms are coming into agreement (for what it's worth), on a more northerly track for the storm, which would put us in the "heaviest snowfall further north" category.

Still, regardless of the storm track, starting late Friday night, you'll feel strong, gusty winds (some stronger than 50 mph), experience a gust of MUCH colder air (highs only in the 30s on Saturday, and even colder wind-chills), and see periods of snow and blowing snow, with poor visibility (near 0 in some spots) at times.

The further north you travel, (say, for example, towards Denver), the more like "The Great White North" conditions will be.

Check the weather page at KOAA.com for the latest information.