Snowfall Report from Thursday/Friday's Snowfall
(posted by Keno on Friday, May 11, at 200 am)

Here's the snow totals from our latest snow event: Here at our official Crestone Weather Station, located in Chalet 1, one block south of the Baca Firehouse at 8,085 feet, 2.2" was recorded along with .54* of an inch of water. Next, and also from Chalet 1 at its east end, at 8,600 feet, 3.5" of snow was seen along with 1.19" of melted down snow. Then one last Chalet 1 report, from 8,200 feet on Arrowhead Way, 1.4". This next report comes from the town of Crestone, at the town sign on Birch Street, at 7,990 feet, seeing one inch even fall. For our last local report, from out in the Grants, off Camino Real and Willow Trail at 7,681 feet, 0.8".... Plus a report just in (at 100 pm Saturday - better late than never), and also from the Grants, at Brook Trout Road west of Wagon Wheel (at 7,800 feet), the report 1.1" as of Friday morning.

Finally some out of town family reports, first from not too far away in Moffat (at 7,566 feet), my grandson reports "just less than a inch" fell. Then his mother reports that at her place, located near the bottom of La Veta Pass, east of Fort Garland, at 8,200 feet, they measured 3.7". 

*One last non-snow report from my own report of the 0.54" of precip, 0.03" of that came in the form of rain - marking the very first day of measureable rainfall of 2024.

So, that does it for this report. As this snow season draws to a (soon) ending, I thank all of our reporters for taking the time to let all of us know what fell where for this 2023-24 season!

Keno 

Crestone's  Weather Station's Home Page will have a new look soon
(posted by Keno on Sunday, May 12, at 1102 pm)

Since I have no choice, I'll have to change the look and layout on our weather site's main page (long story). This should take place in the next few days, and yes, the old normal home page look, will be no more. Other than the Graph Page, none of the sites' other inner pages will change any, but at least the first half of the main page will, if not the entire page itself.

Our weather station's old internet program I use is the problem here, as It's no longer supported anymore and has issues that can't be solved. I've looked around a bunch online for a new one, but don't care for any of the programs that I've seen. Guess I'll find out soon how everybody feels about the one I did decide to go with. But no need to worry, there's nothng else changing nor anything you need to do on your end.

UPDATED 3: Okay, so, here's some new news on the domain change over.... keno.org has already been moved to its new, secured server, but it's just not online yet and I'm making this notice on the old server - which the entire domain is also still on for now. Everything should change sometime this Friday, May 31. That's when the new server will be turned on and our domain's URL prefix will change from "http" to "https". In other words, "https" tells you that any domain, website or webpage that you vist, is on a secured server. While the old URL will still automatically take you to the new URL, I suggest when you get there to update your bookmarks to the new server anyway, so your browser is up to date with the new, actual URL. For the Crestone/Baca Weather Station, the new URL should change from "http://www.keno.org/vws/default.htm" to "https://www.keno.org/vws/default.htm" at that time. However, the actual URL could still change  - if the new weather station is used. But, a tech who works for my host is trying to get the old weather station that I've been using since the 1990s, to work on the new server. If that happens, then the old station will still be used. But I'm not sure if he will be able to do this or not. Time will tell, and yes, the weather station could be offline on Friday for awhile, especially if the old weather station can't be used and the new one has to be installed.

We should all know what's happening come Friday!

Keno