• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

2015-05-12 REPORTS: Colorado Thundersnow, Wolf Creek Pass

John Farley

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Caught some thundersnow around 7 this evening on the west slope of Wolf Creek Pass, about a mile or so from the top around the 10,000 foot level:


Around 6:15 I noticed on radar that a pretty healthy thunderstorm was moving directly toward Wolf Creek Pass. Since it had been visually evident with other showers and thunderstorms earlier in the day that the p-type was snow down to 9 or 10K feet, I figured that if I drove up into the pass, I would have a good chance of getting some thundersnow. It was a pretty sure bet I could intecept the cell, so if it was still producing lightning I would get thundersnow.

As I drove toward the pass from Wolf Creek, the storm looked pretty heavy with occasional CG bolts visible. By Treasure Falls, where the road begins to climb seriously, some partially melted snow or graupel was mixing in with the rain, with occasional flashes of lightning. I continued driving most of the way to the top until I was in all frozen precipitation - mostly graupel at first, then gradually changing to all snow. Over the course of 15 minutes or so I observed three lightning-thunder sequences, but messed up the video on the first two. But not on the third one, as can be seen in the video above!

This storm was not quite as impressive as the one I witnessed at Ski Santa Fe on March 19 (see previous thread in this section), but this time I had a better camera so the video I did get is better.
 
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