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Aspen service aims to provide more accurate snow forecasts |
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Friday, November 25, 2011 07:50 |
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Photo by Jeremy Swanson, Aspen Skiing Co.
By ANDRE SALVAIL, THE ASPEN TIMES
Short-term weather predictions for the Aspen-Snowmass area often prove inaccurate, especially when it comes to snowfall.
The weekend of Nov. 12 was yet another case in point, with official National Weather Service warnings of a massive winter storm for Aspen and much of the Western Slope, complete with gusting winds and dumping snow at higher elevations.
Those reports turned out to be false: The winds kicked up, but snow accumulation in the upper Roaring Fork Valley amounted to not much more than a mid-November tease.
But two men with backgrounds in weather forecasting hope to take the mystery out of local weather forecasting with their new Internet service, aspenweather.net.
Ryan Boudreau, who has handled weather duties for Plum TV in recent years, and Cory Gates, who spent nearly two decades with the NWS analyzing weather data and making predictions, are the primary partners behind the fledgling venture. Boudreau lives in Aspen while Gates is a Basalt resident.
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