Weather report

I'm in Colorado Springs, taking a flight to Syracuse, New York tomorrow.  For some reason, flying out of Montrose was prohibitive, $1300 round trip and arrival in Syrace at 11:30 at night.  Something weird going on there.

I did want to report that we got 4.5 inches of snow Wednesday morning.  It was a nasty drive to Ridgway at 10 a.m., but the roads, except the turn from Camp Bird Road to Mineral Farms, were clear.  That turn was pretty dicey for me as we took the snow tires off a month ago.  We are now up to a whopping 92 inches!  Mike was asking if this was the latest measurable snow I've recorded since we moved to Ouray five and a half years ago, and not even close.  The latest was in 2022, when we got 2.5 inches of snow on May 21st.  

The possible Super El Nino is still on track to happen, and it appears to be getting even stronger.  Time will tell.

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