Gothic Weather
Today's Weather, FRiday: cloudy with generally light but steady rain all night long while staying warm. Cloudy but dry through the morning with some clearing before noon.
What is new: --a few pictures from a high basin (about 12,000 feet) on the NW side of Avery and one looking back at Gothic and Snodgrass.
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Baldy, Galena and Bellview from back of Avery, June 28
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Small part of elk herd (center) in high basin, June 28 |
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Gothic and Snodgrass, June 28
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Fresh snow on Bellview, June 11
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Today's Weather Information:
Weather information for July 03 as of 12:30 p.m.
Today's low: 9°C (48°F)
Today's high: 16°C (66°F)
Current temperature: 18½°C (65°F)
Sky: mostly cloudy
Wind: calm
Current precipitation: none, 0.38" rain today
Snowpack: 0 cm (0")
Today's deepest snowpack: 0 cm (0")
Winters deepest snowpack: 199 cm (78½") on April 03
Total snowfall this winter: 1107 cm (436") at sunriseThis Weeks Weather, starting with Sunday, June 28: clear and mild early with clouds moving in soon after sunrise but holding at partly cloudy through the morning and clearing out by mid afternoon and warming to mid 70's. Monday: clear and mild with the low in the upper 30's. Only scattered clouds through the day as it goes into the upper 70's until some clouds building late afternoon. Tuesday: clear to partly cloudy and warm as it goes from upper 30's to upper 70's. Wednesday: partly cloudy and warm. Thursday: mostly cloudy and mild with a light shower early afternoon, then clearing, then cloudy with light but steady late day rain.
The Past Week in Summary:
High °F New Snow Water/rain Snow depth Friday 06/26 50
62
0" (0 cm) 0.18" 0" (0 cm) Saturday 06/27 41
73
0" (0 cm) 0.00" 0" (0 cm) Sunday 06/28 38
74
0" (0 cm) 0.00" 0" (0 cm) Monday 06/29 38
78
0" (0 cm) 0.00" 0" (0 cm) Tuesday 06/30 38
77
0" (0 cm) 0.00" 0" (0 cm) Wednesday 07/01 39
78
0" (0 cm) 0.00" 0" (0 cm) Thursday 07/02 41
72
0" (0 cm) 0.07" 0" (0 cm) Gothic Weather Forecast: Afternoon clouds with a chnace for showers in the near future while it stays mild. --Friday mostly cloudy with afternoon thundershowers. Low mid 40's and high upper 60's. Saturday partly cloudy early becoming mostly cloudy and a bit cooler with the low mid 40's and high mid 60's. Afternoon showers possible. Sunday partly cloudy early becoming mostly cloudy with a chance for rain. the low mid 40's and high mid 60's.
Other Notes: --There was a good bit of dirt blown in with the wind around March 22 and again on March 30 and April 04, leaving a substantial dirt layer on top of the old crust, near the surface, and in between. --The avalanche just past Gothic which runs out of the cirque caused havoc with the river. Though it looked the same from the surface, it turns out that when the slide damned the river and blocked water flow, the snowpack started to settle down into what was the river before the water slimmed down. Then once the water worked it's way through the snow damn there was no place for it to go so it went above as well as below the old snow/ice ceiling. So from top down it was snow, above slush, above a slow moving lake of water, above a heavy layer of ice, above the old river and river bottom. It took a week for this to melt back out to a more normal flow. ---At sunset Dec. 27 it has been clear or partly cloudy only 2 of the previous 25 days. --There was 306 cm (120") of snow this December. This is the 2nd December in a row to go over 100". December averages 56" of snow. --September was the 8th September in the past 35 with no snow for the month.
Ski and Road Conditions June 30. Skiing is over with for the year.
This information is on the quality of skiing but does not represent the safety in doing so. Check on avalanche conditions before skiing in back country areas.
The road to Gothic is open. The snowplug at Schofield Pass has been plowed open.
Current Avalanche Conditions
June 30: Avalanche activity is over with for the winter. ---Overall a very slide free winter. -There was a good bit of slide activity up Copper Creek the last week of December with three size 3's and a very large size 5 slide that ran out of a south facing gully on the back side of the end of Virginia Basin. This crossed the river and went through the tress on the other side passing the road. The run-out zoned fanned out for probably 1000 feet or more.
This information is for the immediate area around Gothic, though may be similar to other valleys in the area. There may however be differences so for a better evaluation of the general area go to the Crested Butte Avalanche Center.
The Colorado Avalanche Information Center is an excellent source of state wide weather and avalanche information.
-- Click here to see pictures of actual avalanches and some descriptions of ''the anatomy of an avalanche''.
Other weather related pages
-- Click here for notes on the weather page.
-- Click here for the weekly weather summary updated Saturday evenings November through May. Most of the other pages are updated regularly or as appropriate.
-- Click here for the long term monthly/yearly snow totals.
-- Click here for notes on the animal life in Gothic.
Gothic Videos
if you would like to see current weather conditions in Gothic without having the time to ski out yourself, you can watch some brief videos that are available from the videos page.
Movies & Jokes
--Click here for the current movie review, ''Ladies in Lavender'', last updated May 22.--Click here for the rest of of my movie reviews.
--Click here for jokes and quotes ( Pun stories) last updated April 20.
In April of 1921, Albert Einstein visited the United States for the first time. His international celebrity was growing as scientists around the world began to understand and accept the vast implications of his theories of special and general relativity. He attended this annual meeting (of the NAS), and after sitting through a series of long speeches by others, he reportedly said, “I have just got a new theory of eternity.”
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