Snow Day on the Mountain

It was snowing!
Mohonk Lake in Total Narnia Filter!

Mohonk Lake Freezes Over

My first New Paltz-Gunks Winter was very different than the one we are experiencing right now. Today, I discovered from our Mesonet Weather Station, that it was 1 degree outside! That is amazing! I have not seen such low temps since Wyoming. With the low temps and the calm winds, we also discovered that Mohonk Lake froze over! This was a whole few months earlier than last year. Super excited to see how Mohonk Lake does this winter season! Enjoy the pics!

TheChristyBel

The Mesonet Reading of Such Low Temps!

Ice Crystallization on my Window

A Light, Thin Ice Over on Mohonk Lake

Super Glisteny!

The Mohonk Winter Scene

The Wintery View From The Mountain House Patio

My Mohonk Lake View Is Much Different Than My Summer View!

Atmospheric Inversions Over the Tetons

Recently, Jackson Hole has been engulfed in lots of white, fluffy, thick clouds. This fog that has prevented us from seeing over hills or the peaks in the Teton Range is called an atmospheric inversion. In meteorology, an inversion is a deviation from the normal change of an atmospheric property with altitude. 

Photo Credit

Teton Gravity Research Instagram

This Morning's 'Sunrise'
Sky & Sun, I Know You're There!
Come Through the Clouds!
We Would Love to See You!

The Encyclopedia Britannica explains a temperature inversion is a reversal of the normal behavior of temperature in the troposphere in which a layer of cool air at the surface is overlain by a layer of warmer air. Usually, inversions play a significant role in determining cloud formation, precipitation,and visibility.

Inversions act as a cap on the upward movement of air from the layers below, resulting in clouds that cannot grow high enough to produce showers and prevent visibility. This makes a lot of sense, because last week was really cold, and I mean really cold! When I arrived, the temperatures were ranging below 0 - I think last Thursday or Friday, it was -25 to -30 degrees out! This week, it has gotten drastically warmer - today's high should be in the 40s. So, going from one end of the spectrum to the other in such a short amount of time, has really stunted the weather around here and resulted in really low clouds.

Marc went to work at the mountain the past two days and has captured pictures of how it is really cloudy here in the valley. However, as you go up the lifts, gondola, and tram, you go higher above the cloud cover, and you are immersed in Bluebird skies! It's crazy! Enjoy some of the photos captured from the past few days! Hopefully, the sun will start shining again on this town or I might just need to spend most of my days on those high mountain sides!

TheChristyBel

What is Down Below?
Photo Credit to Marc Sweet

The Whole Valley Is Covered!
Photo Credit to Marc Sweet

Above the Clouds
You See Bluebird Skies
Photo Credit to Marc Sweet