Opinion

Season of Surprise!

Wednesday: 8.9 degrees at 7:00 AM. Cirius from the northwest with an up-canyon breeze. Rapid warming though overcast. Warmest day in March! 44.4 degree high Thursday: 30.5 degrees fast-moving meds from the southwest plus blue patches. Trees tossing with snow blowing about timberline.

From The Standard Mail Car

Thank you snowplow drivers for the awesome job you are doing keeping our roads and driveways clear! We appreciate the long hours you put in, day and night, in the cold and dark. Once again you have done an exceptional job during another season of record snowfall. You are the best!

Endless Winter

Wednesday: 29.1 at 7:00 am. Full jet stream propelled an atmospheric river -here from Hawaii! All night then all day with less than 100foot visibility and 29 degrees above zero for most of the day. High was 30.5 degrees. Thursday: 1.7 degrees mixed mids out of the southwest.

Column From Rep. Barabara McLachlan

I am surprised as anyone else that, as an English teacher, I am running a bill about the attributes of math, and the necessity that students understand it. But that is exactly what’s happening. I introduced House Bill 231231 last week with Rep. Rose Pugliese from El Paso County.

Vernal Equinox

From The Standard Mail Car Can Spring have come to the High Country? Day and night are equal now for a moment before daylight tips the scale toward summer. Here in our high valley nights are still frozen.

This is a Real San Juan Winter!

Wednesday: 31.4 degrees at 7:00 AM, snow blowing horizontal up canyon. Above freezing 8:00 AM until dusk. Slushy snow in the street. 37.0 degree high Thursday: 25.7 degrees grey, overcast and still. Blue by mid-morning. Variable and gusty North breeze. Periodically overcast afternoon.

So Stay Strong!

Wednesday 14.1 degrees at 7 am. Cirrus up canyon. Very slight downcanyon air movement. My 9 am wind in the wires. Then blowing snow36. 8 degree high. Thursday, 3.0 degrees and still. Faint cirrus and more pronounced downcanyon. Sun without wind. Too nice a day to be inside. 41.5 degree high.

From The Standard Mail Car

To all of the sponsors, partners, volunteers, and everyone who made Silverton Skijoring 2023 possible, THANK YOU!

No One Wants More Wind!

Wednesday: meteorological spring begins today. Except you wouldn’t know that up here! 17.6 degrees with tiny flakes falling heavy vertically at 7:00 AM ratcheting up soon after. Gusty blowing snowfall afternoon. Lion dash not lamb! 23.0 degree high Tuesday: negative 4.9 degrees Bluebird beginning!

Flying Horses!

Wednesday: 12.9 degrees at 7:00 AM with 9.8 inches additional. Coldest day in February. Snowy plus blowy! 19.9 degrees hi Tuesday: 22.9, our coldest night yet. Clear and still. Little air movement and calm until late afternoon. Deep winter day! 20.1 degree high Friday: 20.