Mud Rain!
Storm total at Alta/Snowbird since Monday is 20", with more today.
On Wednesday it was 36F at 10am, ceiling down to 5500', strong winds, black clouds over the Wasatch and the east benches (but the Salt Lake is in sunshine), still 16,000 without power from Monday's storm....and a foot of new snow in Little Cottonwood Canyon with more expected.

Monday was intensely strange. Mid 60's and really strong winds coming up from the south, with gusts to 75mph, stirred up more and more desert dust - visibility dropped all day till it looked like thick fog at 5p. Then it started to rain. After 1-1/2 years here I've seen some strange weather, including the ever freaky ice fog, but this was my first experience with mud rain. There was so much dust in the air that it collected on/in the raindrops, each one leaving a tan, muddy splat where it hit. It looked like we had all driven through multiple mud puddles.

Sunday was Alta's last day of daily operation. Started cloudy with gusty winds then went to partly sunny and 55F. Legs turned to unresponsive rubber by about 2:00 since it was my third day of turning in heavy corn.



Finally!"-- Rush has announced summer tour dates in support of its forthcoming album, Vapor Trails. The road stint starts June 28 at the Meadows Music Center in Hartford, Connecticut, and runs through August 21 at the Journal Pavilion in Albuquerque, New Mexico. More tour dates will be announced at a later time."

Alas no SLC date yet, if ever. May have to travel for this one. Full article...




Good news!

Reuters News tells us:
" "Ally McBeal," the quirky, critically acclaimed show about a yuppie lawyer that helped Fox gain a reputation as a serious TV network, will end its run in May after five seasons due to low ratings, the network said on Thursday.

The move marks the second major cancellation of a big Fox show following the network's announcement in January that its popular series "The X Files" would also be canceled in May."

Both of these should have been put out to pasture a couple of years ago. It's nice to see a burst of sanity among TV execs every now and then




A new drinking game:
Grab a bottle of your favorite spirt and a shot glass.
Watch The X-Files.
Each time Scuzzy,...uh, Sculley, says "...my baby...", drink a shot.
Each time she says the infrequent "...my child...", drink two shots.
If she utters the extraordinarily rare "...my boy...", guzzle directly from the bottle.

My guess is that on average you'll be drunk on single shots by the third commercial break