Storm Clouds on the Horizon

Once again, a big-ass Pacific storm has steam-rolled in to the parched American West bringing with it more heavy snow to the high elevations and rain to the valleys.

Colorado’s snow pack is already at somewhere around 150% of normal while in California they are at about 115%. This is all good news and a welcome respite from so much drought in these here hills. (Although we still need several years like this to really recover.)

Farmers and skiers, rejoice!

Then, of course, as heralded by today’s grand event in Washington, D.C., we now must consider the possibility of being battered by a another, more elusive but no less powerful, monster-storm of quite a different  stripe.

What, pray tell, awaits us from beyond this last foggy horizon?

Tree in Fog and Snow. Mt. Lemon, Arizona, 2016