Daily file photo is ready to try to squeeze more snow from those clouds, with some help from local water districts. and the Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority separate entities with separate jobs have together contributed up to $30,000 to the river district’s cloud seeding operations this season. The money will be paid out as needed for operations.
In all, the district and its partners from both the Western Slope and the Front Range will put about $300,000 into cloud seeding this season. That’s about $100,000 more than the district had to spend going into the winter.
The seeding budget used to be bigger. Vail Resorts before this season had long funded cloud seeding operations, to the tune of about $300,000 per year.
latest forecast for Vail calls for snow developing Jan. 21 later in the day, with snow showers likely through the weekend.
This graph shows the Vail area is significantly behind in snowfall during the current “water year,” which runs from roughly October through May.
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Kris Sanders, a forecaster at the Grand Junction office of the National Weather Service, said it looks like the weekend snow could be “fairly widespread” over the Western Slope, particularly on Saturday.
What’s needed, though, is a return to the Vail area’s historic pattern of a few inches of fresh snow every few days.
Better known as “Charlie” to his coworkers and friends, Forster has been involved in community affairs and civic improvements in Salida, Buena Vista and Poncha Springs from the time he
Friday is the next chance for snow Eagle County. A storm could bring 3 to 6 inches of powder.
There’s been a lot to love about this week’s weather, with fresh snow opening new terrain at Vail and Beaver Creek. But there isn’t much new snow coming before Christmas.
Brianna Bealo, a forecaster at the Grand Junction office of the National Weather Service
, said the Dec. 18 forecast gives Eagle County a chance for a few inches of fresh snow. But, Bealo added, there isn’t much in the forecast after that.
“It doesn’t look like the next system comes in until Christmas or a little past,” Bealo said.