http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=39.73890&lon=-105.21500&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=graphical

Looks like lots of snow and wind and cold tomorrow and much of the week.  Just look at that wind chill factor for Wednesday.  Better make sure I've got enough consumables, 'cause I ain't gonna go out in that weather.

Wish me luck.  Good luck, that is.

It just struck me that since they don't calculate wind chill factors for temperatures above about 45-50 degrees F, I wondered if you folks ever see them for Hawaii.

REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_chill 

The above link to a graphical forecast will be current as of the day and time you click on it.

Attached is a pictorial forecast which won't change.

Terry, 230RN

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Wow.

Yeah, cost of living might be higher in Hawaii but we do save money on all the socks, insulated boots and jackets that we don't have to buy.

Wind chill usually isn't much of a factor unless you are up country (at elevation) or its a kinda chilly, windy day and you're just getting out of the water. On those days its warmer in the water.

Seriously, a cold day here means you want to put on socks and a hoody. Layering means a t-shirt and a sweatshirt. Most folks here on the big island don't even bother with rain jackets unless they spend a significant amount of time outdoors.

Most folks here on the big island don't even bother with rain jackets unless they spend a significant amount of time outdoors.

Missing the Big Island and my family! 

One of the things I miss the most is seeing the snow on top of Mauna Kea. I used to work in Hilo and seeing the snow from work during the winter months was nice. 

Being from Montana, I do miss the snow, but I fear I've been turned into a snivelling little girl by the Hawaiian weather!  This morning I woke up freezing my gonads off--couldn't have been much over 65, maybe 70 degrees in that house! 

Good luck, God Bless.  Check your preps and hope for the best.

Is this a little early for that kind of weather in Golden?

@Cougar - from northern Ohio here. And I know what you mean. I used to fearlessly bundle up to head out into -20* weather. Now when I head to the mainland in the winter it takes me a while to remember that tucking my shirt in helps to stay warm. When the cold night wind rolls down Mauna Kea and into the house... we all shiver and run for our socks and jackets. Still wearing short, though. Geez, life is soooo rough here.

AWESOME! Now I don't have to run the A/C overnight in Waipahu...

AWESOME! Now I don't have to run the A/C overnight in Waipahu...

Haha, snow?

What's that?

Is that the white stuff that comes in a spray can?
 

Prelude:  FIre in the Sky.

I took this (and others) heading home toward Golden after my "Hunting-and-gathering-stock-up-for-the-week" shopping trip.  I was looking for an "artsy" clear spot to take pictures of it but realized it wouldn't last long, so I just stopped the car and snapped a bunch of pix.    It was so spectacular that it was mentioned on the news later that night with a lime-lapse video.

You take the good with the bad, I guess.  That's what one of my wives used to tell me all the time. 

Come to think of it, both of them used to say that frequently....  Hm. 

Terry, 230RN

Location of pic:

10300 W 38th Ave Wheat Ridge CO, 80033  I was parked by the wooden fence, almost exactly where the Googlecam was in this map.

ETA  1:15AM MST.  Snow's just starting after a slight drizzle.  Big fat aggregated flakes.  Kind of fun to shoot a laser beam out in the dark and watch the flakes twinkle as they pass through the beam.





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Being from Montana, I do miss the snow, but I fear I've been turned into a snivelling little girl by the Hawaiian weather!  This morning I woke up freezing my gonads off--couldn't have been much over 65, maybe 70 degrees in that house! 

Hawaii is different, when I got my first snow back in the mainland it really wasnt that bad, my body just took to it.  Guaranteed if I were to go up H2 after a January night at the club Id still freeze my ass off.  Some of the coldest moments in my life were in the back of a pickup going up the hill.

Is this a little early for that kind of weather in Golden?

Nope.  I have personally been snowed on as early as mid-September in the Foothills, and in some years the snowcaps on the mountains stick around through June or July. 

There is a consistent problem with newbie folks who come out here and decide to run around the mountains in warm weather in shorts and tee-shirts and the like and then get caught in a sudden snowstorm.  Every year there's a couple of news stories about this, sometimes involving fatalities. 

It used to be that there were a number of small planes which had been missing for decades up there in the high country because their little Continental engines were trying to claw their way over the peaks, but I guess modern technology like satellite imaging and "stuff" has located most of them by now.  Ratings of 150 horsepower at sea level do not equate to 150 horsepower at 12000 feet and sea level climb rates do not pertain, either.  (IANAP)  ("I am not a pilot.")  I guess the mountains resent those buzzy little annoying planes and tend to take swats at them.

Possibly, by observation over fifty years of living up here, the most "outdoorsey" deaths seem to involve rock climbing and skiing.  Oh, and avalanches, which usually involve cross-country skiing anyhow.

Note the snowfall amounts throughout the year in the tables in the link below, and this remark: "Again, with altitude being such a large factor, snow in the foothills can start as early as the first week of September and extend to the last week of June, especially at levels above 7500 feet."

http://www.skyviewweather.com/climatology/