Colorado ‘hurricane’ on the way !

High Wind Warning
Expiring: 02/23/2012 05:00am
Areas affected: Boulder, CO; Broomfield, CO; Clear Creek, CO; Douglas, CO; Jefferson, CO; Larimer, CO


URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
351 PM MST TUE FEB 21 2012
...WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED ALONG THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE
FRONT RANGE MOUNTAINS...FOOTHILLS AND ADJACENT PLAINS TONIGHT AND
WEDNESDAY...
.A STRONG UPPER LEVEL JET STREAM MOVING OVER COLORADO TONIGHT AND
WEDNESDAY IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE STRONG NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT
THROUGH THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. THIS WILL COMBINE WITH A STABLE
AIRMASS AND STRENGTHENING SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENTS TO CREATE
STRONG WINDS OVER THE COLORADO HIGH COUNTRY EAST OF THE DIVIDE.
STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE DOWN
INTO THE FOOTHILLS AND ONTO THE NEARBY PLAINS. WIND GUSTS TO
80 MPH ARE EXPECTED...ALTHOUGH A FEW WIND PRONE AREAS COULD SEE
GUSTS NEAR 100 MPH EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY
NIGHT.
COZ033>036-220700-
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SOUTH AND EAST JACKSON
NORTHWEST BOULDER COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-
SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST GRAND/WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST BOULDER/
GILPINNORTH AND WEST PARK COUNTIES ABOVE
9000 FEET-LARIMER AND BOULDER COUNTIES BETWEEN 6000 AND 9000 FEET-
JEFFERSON AND WEST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEETCLEAR
CREEK/NORTHEAST PARK COUNTIES BELOW 9000 FEET-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CAMERON PASS...
LARAMIE AND MEDICINE BOW MOUNTAINS...RABBIT EARS RANGE...
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK...WILLOW CREEK PASS...
BERTHOUD PASS...BRECKENRIDGE...EAST SLOPES MOSQUITO RANGE...
EAST SLOPES SOUTHERN GORE RANGE...EISENHOWER TUNNEL...
INDIAN PEAKS...KENOSHA MOUNTAINS...MOUNT EVANS...
WILLIAMS FORK MOUNTAINS...WINTER PARK...ESTES PARK...GLENDEVEY...
NEDERLAND...RED FEATHER LAKES...BAILEY...CENTRAL CITY...
EVERGREEN...GEORGETOWN...IDAHO SPRINGS...WESTCREEK
351 PM MST TUE FEB 21 2012
...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO
5 AM MST THURSDAY...
* TIMING...WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE JUST AFTER SUNSET
TONIGHT AND REMAIN STRONG THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT BEFORE
DECREASING BY THURSDAY MORNING.
* WINDS...PEAK GUSTS TO BETWEEN 80 AND 100 MPH. THE STRONGEST
WINDS WILL BE CONFINED TO THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE FRONT RANGE
MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS WITH LIGHTER WINDS WEST OF THE
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE.
* IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS WILL CAUSE AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING
SNOW ALONG AND EAST OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE AND OVER THE
HIGHER FOOTHILLS...REDUCING VISIBILITIES AND CREATING HAZARDOUS
DRIVING CONDITIONS.
* OTHER IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS MAY ALSO DOWN SOME TREES AND
PRODUCE SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REMEMBER...A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT STRONG AND POTENTIALLY
DAMAGING WINDS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR HIGHLY LIKELY.
IN ADDITION TO POWERFUL CROSSWINDS...DRIVERS SHOULD ALSO
ANTICIPATE AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW THAT WILL REDUCE VISIBILITY TO
NEAR ZERO AND CAUSE BRIEF WHITEOUT CONDITIONS.

Red Alert !

"A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT STRONG AND POTENTIALLY
DAMAGING WINDS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR HIGHLY LIKELY.
RESIDENTS IN THE WARNING AREA ARE URGED TO BRING INDOORS ANY
LOOSE ITEMS SUCH AS GARBAGE CANS AND PATIO FURNITURE THAT MAY BE
BLOWN ABOUT BY THE STRONG WINDS."

= BRING IN THA TOMATO PLANTS !!!!!

Utah here. We just had a Severe Wind announcement scroll across the tv for Wyoming and heading our way.

Yea, Wyoming got it bad today. I know, high wind nothing new for them but:
Road Closures
[link to www.wyoroad.info]

And, coming in on the heels of this wind will be this:

Storm Track Squarely Aimed at Northwest, Rockies:
[link to www.weather.com]

HAARP. It's amazing it's saying how the jetstream is causing this event. HAARP has been known to have the ability to shift the jet stream pattern

They're saying tomorrow during the day for us here in Idaho, once this front crosses the rockies watch out for lots of tornado outbreaks once that cold air meets the warmer air.......not good.

Yep. I seen a few weeks ago the jet stream dipping all the way down into central Mexico !

yikes, thats my neck of the woods. windy here but nothing too terrible yet. i am 4800 ft, larimer county

Winds topple vehicles; cold front to bring snow to metro area

[link to kdvr.com]

Chinook Winds

Chinook is claimed by popular mythology to mean "eater" but it is really the name of the people in the region where the usage was first derived. The reference to a wind or weather system, simply "a Chinook", originally meant a warming wind from the ocean into the interior regions of the Pacific Northwest (the Chinook people lived near the ocean, along the lower Columbia River). A strong Chinook can make snow one foot deep almost vanish in one day. The snow partly melts and partly evaporates in the dry wind. Chinook winds have been observed to raise winter temperature, often from below −20 °C (−4 °F) to as high as 10–20 °C (50–68 °F) for a few hours or days, then temperatures plummet to their base levels. The greatest recorded temperature change in 24 hours was caused by Chinook winds on January 15, 1972, in Loma, Montana; the temperature rose from -48 to 9 °C (-54 to 48 °F).[3]


[link to en.wikipedia.org]