We just put up a batch of photos of Blizzard Deux in the photo gallery here.

We received about a foot of snow last night. It’s heavier and stickier than the snow deposited by the first blizzard, presumably because the ambient temperature was/is higher now.

There are some webcams scattered around Boulder that will give you real-time views of the snow. There are several here that provide an overview of the campus area (my alma mater, which is not to say I’m particularly fond of the place) and the nearby mountain range. There’s a whole page of webcam links here; the ones provided by GHWA.com give you the best idea of what it’s like in the downtown area. read more

It started snowing about 45 min ago. Here’s the current forecast:

335 PM MST THU DEC 28 2006

…WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM MST FRIDAY…
…WINTER STORM WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH
SUNDAY AFTERNOON…

THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING
THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 6 AM MST FRIDAY.

SNOW…HEAVY AT TIMES…WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. TOTAL
ACCUMULATIONS BY DAYBREAK FRIDAY ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE BETWEEN 8
AND 18 INCHES…WITH THE HEAVIEST ACCUMULATIONS NEAR THE FOOTHILLS. read more

My partner Chris found this video on YouTube which pretty much says by itself all that needs to be said about James Brown, and why it’s sad that he’s no longer with us. I’ll just add that he’s one of those people whose influence is so huge that there’s no way to overstate it.

I won’t attempt to explain why I find this so amusing, but there’s a great page here of videos of someone demonstrating his company’s blender by putting all sorts of things into it which are generally considered unfit for blender consumption. I particularly like the one which is titled as involving a crowbar, but actually shows the destruction of four cell phones.

It started snowing again at about 4:00PM. It’s too soon to tell whether or not it’s going to amount to anything, but it is coming down steadily. We’re definitely going to have a white Christmas!

We just posted more photos of the snow here. It continued to snow through the night and for awhile this morning. I said in a previous entry that Denver got the worst of it, but that turned out not to be the case. The official measurement for Boulder seems to be 34 inches, which is much more than the largest figure I’ve seen for Denver.

This is by far the most snow I’ve seen in Boulder since I started living here in 1983. CNN’s coverage said something about this being the worst storm since 2003, but as far as Boulder is concerned this storm much bigger than any recent snowfall. read more

Just for the record, here’s the latest blizzard warning from the National Weather Service:

URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
1031 PM MST WED DEC 20 2006

…DANGEROUS WINTER STORM WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST AND NORTH
CENTRAL COLORADO INTO THURSDAY MORNING…

.A MAJOR WINTER STORM WILL CONTINUE BRINGING WIDESPREAD MODERATE
TO HEAVY SNOW AND BLIZZARD CONDITIONS TO NORTHEAST AND NORTH
CENTRAL COLORADO THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. THE STORM PRODUCING
THIS WEATHER IS CENTERED OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND WILL SLOWLY
MOVE EASTWARD ON THURSDAY. SNOW SHOULD BEGIN TO DIMINISH BY LATE
THURSDAY MORNING. read more

It’s 10:45PM as I write this, and it’s still snowing. I don’t know what the official measurement for Boulder is but it’s easily up to my knees in front of the house. This is certainly the heaviest snowfall I’ve seen here. I’ll put up some more pictures tomorrow.

As you may have seen on the news, Colorado is getting a lot of snow today. Denver is getting the worst of it (as usual) but we’re getting quite a lot here in Boulder. I’ve put up some photos in the photo gallery here and will probably put up more tomorrow. I’ve also taken some video footage [is it still called footage?] which I’ll try to edit down and post in some manner.