Angry skies over the high plains near Monument, Colorado.

Winter Storm

Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado

Storm clouds over Denver at sunset.

Building clouds in Denver.

A sunset storm approaching Dillon Marina, Lake Dillon, Colorado.

The Rockies were behind and the skies were angry.

Hot days, hot boats, and stormy skies.

Long Bridge Marina — Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

The back end of a thunderstorm moves over Pelican Lake.

Pelican Lake, Minnesota.

This year Mother Nature decided to compete with the man-made fireworks.

Moments after the Fourth-of-July show concluded, there was a major thunderstorm.

Pelican Lake, Minnesota

I was in Las Vegas this past weekend. It was afternoon, and I was watching the news on my hotel room TV. They were interviewing Donald Trump and speculating about him making a run for the presidency in 2012. At that instant, I looked out my hotel room window and saw dark storm clouds swirling around the Trump International Hotel a short distance away.

Hmmm, was this a coincidence? Our cab driver had told us it hadn’t rained for three months in Vegas. I’ll leave you to attach your own metaphorical interpretation to this event. If you look close, you can also see a news helicopter between the Trump Hotel and that angry sky.

A winter storm dumped about a foot of snow up in the mountains this past weekend, but we only had light rain in Denver. The storm clouds created some nice winter light.

This is a wicked looking storm! Above is a GOES satellite view from NOAA of the blizzard now covering a good portion of the central U.S.

The calm before the storm in downtown Denver.

A break in the clouds allowed the setting sun to illuminate the city while dark snow clouds loomed above. Despite the stormy appearance, the city received only a light dusting of the white stuff. The rest of the week looks sunny with temps in the 50s.

A shaft of morning sunlight illuminates the surface of a calm Lake Dillon while dark, gathering clouds portend the first major snowstorm of the season in Colorado High Country. Higher elevations are predicted to get 14” to 24” (356 mm to 610 mm) of snow. 

Near Dillon, Colorado.