Louisville CO, the Windy City

People tell me that around here it's very unusual for the snow to stay on the ground for very long. However, it's been close to three weeks now since that big storm hit and there's still some white on the ground, or at least there was yesterday. Today has been a really warm and sunny day (14 degrees C / 57 F) so it looks like the rest will disappear shortly.

It's bloody windy though! It started on Monday and when I drove northwards close to the mountains the visibility was horrendous as the gusts coming from my left side lifted up the snow from the ground and you couldn't see almost anything. I've never experienced gusts like this in Finland and it felt like the car was pushed sideways on the road. I turned back home as soon as possible but there were quite a few cars who had driven off the road along the way.

Today in Boulder the gusts were reported 88 mph which is roughly 40 m/s. The office took some damage as well since "one of the air conditioner covers just blew off the south building roof and landed in the parking lot. One of the light stanchion covers is also dislodged and flapping in the wind" as was written by one of our technicians just before I left for home.

I tried taking some videos outside but just standing still in the open was almost impossible so the shaking of the camera was too much. Here's two shorts clips that don't really show you the real force but at least it's something.

Stop twitching you stupid stop sign!