Snow Blowing in from the West

As often happens here on the western side of South Park, we're getting snow blowing in from the Mosquito Range. Overhead, the sky is clear. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether the snow in the air is actually falling from the sky or just being picked up by the wind and redistributed, but to the west it is obviously falling on the mountains.

South Park is, of course, known for its winds. Sometimes at night we joke that we might wake up in Kansas rather than Colorado! And the winds are often the real cause of road problems - wind driven snow drifts onto roads and highways causing slippery conditions, especially when it melts and then refreezes.