Snowmass under a settled sky on a nice Friday morning

Yes, we're still obsessing over the weather forecast, which on Friday night included this glorious phrase: "By the end of the (next) work week significant amounts of snow will be expected over the mountains...especially the southwest slopes of the San Juans." Good God, man, that's beautiful. The NWS also noted today that Grand Junction just experienced a 22-day string of below 32-degree days from Christmas Even through Thursday. That tied for the fourth-longest cold stretch in Grand Junction weather history, which might say something about how unusually cold, and dry, it has been. But there is much talk of "unsettled" patterns now, which continues to cheer us. Local upper-mountain base depths have shrunk a bit. Buttermilk is at 24, Aspen Mtn at 25, Snowmass at 43 and Highlands at 52 inches.