Temperatures in the foothills west of Fort Collins are thirty degrees warmer than in the city.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
Google Search
-
Recent Posts
- NASA Sea Level
- “getting smaller”
- “Permanent Shift” In Antarctic Sea Ice
- Rapidly Accelerating Sea Level Rise
- Technology Advances
- “The Hour Of Decision”
- “fair & equitable”
- Michael Mann Continues His War
- Time Travelling Satellites
- Time Traveling Satellites
- Adult Content On X
- The Climate Of 1923
- Arctic Report Card
- Green Colorado
- Hottest Summer Ever
- “Sea ice could be gone by 2012, scientists warn”
- Record CO2 Growth
- Walz’s For Trump
- 6,000 Year Old Tree In The Austrian Alps
- Gemini Can See The Future
- Clinton To Defeat Trump By Double Digits
- Climate Intelligence Means “Making Things Up”
- Comedy From The BBC
- The Climate Afterlife
- Rewriting The Northern Hemisphere
Recent Comments
- Greg in NZ on NASA Sea Level
- arn on “getting smaller”
- Gordon Vigurs on “fair & equitable”
- Gordon Vigurs on Michael Mann Continues His War
- Gordon Vigurs on Michael Mann Continues His War
- Bob G on “getting smaller”
- arn on “getting smaller”
- Hank Phillips on “getting smaller”
- Francis Barnett on “Permanent Shift” In Antarctic Sea Ice
- Scott Allen on “getting smaller”
a chinook in the foothills, but over Ft Collins? We see that in Alberta.
There is no wind.
I was going to say Chinook as well – but you kind of need wind for that.
Tiny wildfires?
Urban heat island effect?
Mr. Watts ran a story about Oak Ridge Laboratories running an experiment. Concrete jungle strikes again. Here’s that link
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/20/noaa-establishes-a-fact-about-station-siting-nighttime-temperatures-are-indeed-higher-closer-to-the-laboratory/
Probably radiational cooling. Light or no wind with clear skies will drain the cold air into the lower lying sections often having big temperature differences from nearby areas. The foothills probably had either cloud cover or some wind. A 30 degree difference does seem a little extreme however. If the foothills also had clear skies and no wind I would agree that this is weird and would be curious as to the reason.
Inversion?
Fort Collins seems to be right on the edge of the cold air mass in the midwest, and has been running much colder than nearby areas the last couple of days.
Hmmm, up here in Wyoming we are in a heat wave, mid 40s with lots of wind.
That “29” station looks like it is CIRA (Cooperative Instittute for Research in the Atmosphere), where I worked 20 years ago (and first experienced for myself the incompetence of modern scientists–ones with EPA ties and continuing government grants).