Keno's Crestone Weather Center

Crestone Weather Photos

This page shows some of the more interesting weather that we have experienced here in Crestone. Anybody reading this who has any cool photos of storms or weather events from years past - or up to the present - and who would like to share them here, please send them on in to me. Photos of interest would include snowstorms, floods, hail, ice fog, rainbows, etc. Please send photos in via email, along with: where and when the photo was taken; and who took the photo, so I can give the proper credit. Please include "Crestone Weather Photos" in the email's subject title, this way the email should not be blocked by my email spam filter. Only rule is that the photos must be local, preferably taken in and around Crestone. Also if possible, the resolution for the photos should be set at 72 DPI. However, if you don't have the means to lower the DPI, send the photos as is and I'll take care of it on my end.

Okay, so please send in those photos, and thanks in advance!

Keno

- Crestone Weather Photos -

Funnel Cloud, just before it hit the mountain above Crestone, April 24, 2005
(Photo sent in by Jeanne Sullivan)

Back Deck of Keno's House... (1) ...after 31 inches of snow fell on March 13, 2003, located south of the Baca Fire Station in the Chalets.	Front Deck of Keno's House (2) From March 13, '03 - Can you make out the burried 2 1/2'  tall table? It's in the middle of the photo.
Frozen Artesian Spring next to Casita Park Notice the ice fog just behind it. This was taken by Bill Hill     in the early 1960s, where the lake bed now sits.	Frozen Artesian Spring w/water shoting out Wish we had a larger photo of this one! Located across T Road from Casita Park, and taken by Bill Hill in the early '60s.
Flood Damage to road on Panorama, in Chalet One (1) Caused by a flash flood that hit on July 28, 2003, after 1.5" of rain fell in less than 20 minutes.	Flood Damage to infrastructure in Chalet One (2) After flash flood hit on July 28, 2003 (This photo and the one to the left sent in by Janet Woodman)
Duststorm getting ready to hit - June 3, 2005 (1) Looking North on Hwy 17 it's about to hit Hooper , CO	Duststorm Hitting Hooper, CO  (2) Taken again on Hwy 17 seconds later
Duststorm hits Hooper, CO, Crestone is next! (3) Storm is heading Eastward with winds between 50 & 70 MPH	Hwy 17 between Hooper & Moffit, Co (4) Inside the storm, all photos taken by Fred Farrell

- Some Double Rainbows over Crestone -

A hawk flies by a building cumulonimbus cloud over Mount Crestone, July, 2006
(This and rainbow photos taken by Keno)

- The following photos are of the Flash Floods that hit on July 3, 2006 -
(All photos below taken by Keno)

Flash flood as it was taking place by our front door	Damage to side of Camino Baca Grande Rd & Panorama Way
Car eaten up by flood on Panorama Way	Panorama Way
Looking down Panorama Way	Panorama Way
Panorama Way

- For more flash flood photos from the July 3 storm, click here -

The Meadow at Willow Park w/ our mountains in fog
From the trail heading up to Willow Lake, August, 2006
(This photo sent in by Fred Farrell)

(Next 2 photos by Keno)

Morning freezing fog at Crestone's Dragon Mountain Zen Temple
December, 2006 (Photo by Steve Allen)

- The following photos are from a 23.6" spring snowstorm that hit on April 23, 2007 -

Lighting strike near Poncha Pass
Photo taken near the Welcome Center at Valley View Hot Springs (Photo by John Lorenz, July, 2007)

4th of July (2007) Double Rainbow
Taken by Wayne Clark out at the Ranchetts, looking SE towards the Baca Grande.

- More Crestone Flash Flood Photos -