WINTER STORM COLORADO

"Zipper Lane" on I-70 Would Cut Eastbound Commute in Half
KUNC
It found using a reversible ``zipper'' lane on winter Sundays would cut the drive time from Silver Plume to El Rancho from 91 minutes to 46 minutes, ...

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Ski Channel
New heli op to open in Lake Tahoe
Freeskier Magazine
The north-facing aspects will hold their snow days after a storm while the south-facing aspects will provide for ideal corn conditions in the spring. ...
Heli Op To Open In TahoeTransworld Snowboarding.com

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Solar Activity Affects Decay Rates And Can Provide Warning of Solar Flares
Next Big Future (blog)
The decay rate was ever so slightly faster in winter than in summer. If this apparent relationship between flares and decay rates proves true, it could lead ...

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Weather wise
The Durango Herald
The mobile radar has routinely detected significant storm cells in Southwest Colorado that go missed by Grand Junction, Vasiloff said. ...

TBD.com
What's Up with the Cold Snap?
TBD.com
*Washington got some really cool air coming in from a storm that, according to Ryan, has been spinning counterclockwise "a few hundred miles out in the ...

Sports summary
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
The Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation (SVSEF) hopes to prepare its top athletes well enough so they can qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi, ...

Pisco, Powder and Passion: Chilean Skiing Delivers All Three
Ski Magazine (blog)
Jonesing for a South American ski fix? Columnist Tom Winter explores four different Chilean resorts. Pisco. A wonderful intoxicant or ...

Bleacher Report
Twelve Women Who Pioneered the Era of Female Sports Broadcasters
Bleacher Report
Hannah Storm, a graduate of Notre Dame, first came to national prominence when, after working for CNN for a brief period, was hired by NBC to report on a ...

Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand and Owen Hargreaves given gloomy injury verdict
Telegraph.co.uk
Maybe that quelled the storm in his body.” Meanwhile, United have confirmed that defender Nemanja Vidic has signed a four-year contract extension.

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Passion for the mission
Grand Junction Free Press
“It's usually at night, or four in a weekend, under unpleasant conditions,” such as the hottest day of the year, or a winter storm, or when the river is at ...

Volleyball Season Preview: The Pieces Are There For Another Big Sky Title
Portland State Vikings
In her first season with the Vikings after transferring from New Mexico State, Phillips took the Big Sky by storm, winning the Top Newcomer award and ...

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'Zero Energy' house being built
Laurel Leader Call
“There's actually a man I know of in Colorado that gets a check from the power company because he generates more electricity than he consumes,” Middleton ...

Vail summer occupancy back to 2008 levels
Vail Daily News
VAIL, Colorado — Recent data paints a rosy picture for tourism-based economies like Vail — a picture that may or may not equal positive indications for ...

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Summit County nonprofits creatively weather economic storm
Summit Daily News
The Colorado Department of Transportation largely funded SPA's work on drunk-driving prevention. Now that $100000 grant is totally gone, Read said. ...

Empire United win a national soccer crown
Greece Post
On their way to claiming the National Championship, they recorded victories over SYA (Virginia), Orlando FC QPR Academy (Florida), and Colorado Storm ...

Is weather chaos linked to warming?
Inquirer.net
Theory suggests that a world warming up because of those gases will feature heavier rainstorms in summer, bigger snowstorms in winter, more intense droughts ...

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Freeskier Magazine
Q&A With East Coast Diehards Meathead Films
Freeskier Magazine
A lot of people think of the East as being an icy hell but many resorts in New England average more annual snow than many resorts in Colorado! ...

Charlotte Observer
Feeling summer's heat? Cool off with pop culture
Charlotte Observer
"Dr. Zhivago," "Fargo," "The Ice Storm," "A Simple Plan," "Groundhog Day" and the first act of "The Empire Strikes Back" all feature Old Man Winter ...

Payson frets about Blue Ridge surprises
Payson Roundup
Some 5000 water users filed damage claims in the first year and voters quickly passed a ban on injecting the Colorado River water directly into the system. ...

MLB.com
Clubs help transition back to school
MLB.com
"I remember going to a game at Wrigley in September as a kid and thinking it was middle of winter already." If every baseball season is a rite of passage, ...

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