“Malama i ke kai, a malama ke kai ia 'oe.” [caption id="attachment_40377" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Plastic in the ocean absorbs other toxins, which the fish we eat ingest.[/caption] The centuries old 'ōlelo no'eau (Hawaiian proverb) translates to mean, “Care for the ocean and the ocean will care for...
In 1896, approximately 150 years after the dawn of the industrial revolution began to disrupt Earth’s natural energy balance, Nobel Laureate chemist Svante Arrhenius theorized that carbon dioxide (CO2) derived from fossil fuel combustion induced atmospheric global warming. Nonetheless, it took another 62 years before...
There's a building ridge of high pressure over Colorado today with warming temps and clearing skies. Later in the day, clouds will begin moving into the forecast area just ahead of the next large trough of low pressure on the west coast pushes into the...
As self-serving politicians funded by the fossil fuel industry inhibit progress in America, Asian countries are quickly moving towards reducing risk, building resilience, and creating new economic opportunities by abandoning the business-as-usual approach in favor of going green. By 2020, China, India, and Japan will be...
If you compared snow accumulation with dust from yesterday's storm, there is probably 1" of mud. The ferocious winds carrying desert grit did a lot of damage to our snowpack that will help melt our Snow Bank prematurely this spring. The weather this week into...
A pleasant but windy day on tap with increasing clouds later this afternoon & tonight. Much like our Wed/Thur storm, vicious winds will again create another dust event putting desert grit in the air & snow mixing with Sunday's precipitation. Currently a Gulf of Alaska...
Surely love these warm tenuous March days, then it all changes in a matter of hours. Enjoy this beauty of a day because Wednesday will see increasing clouds and SW winds as another storm currently spinning off the NW coast of Washington/BC will bring snow...
Today will be warm & sunny, but changing with increasing cloudiness and dropping air temperatures that precede a weak low pressure trough/cold front that will turn into another active weather period tonight/early Saturday and into Sunday morning favoring the west and northern San Juan mountains. There...
A near perfect Sunday. Warm, cloudless and calm, but all to end rapidly tomorrow with a120 knot jet on SW flow entering our area with big wind, another cold front and a little snow for the high country. Models mixed on when, where and how...
I’m alone, skiing towards a high ridge in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. The stars are bright, but a slight glow is spreading from the east. Breath after breath creates a plume of steam that’s illuminated by my headlamp. My skis slide smoothly over...
