December 17, 2025
Extreme wind again! This time roads were closed, we lost power and were beginning to wonder if we could make it to Nissi’s tonight. We did, but 36 was still closed when we passed it on the way to Nissi’s!
Martin shot this at 2:07 PM. The plots below show the wind at about 40 mph at this time.
Martin shot this at 3:26 PM. The plots below show the wind at about 50 mph at this time.
Here’s Wunderground’s plot of the wind speed and gusts. They show a peak of 63 mph.
Here’s the weather stations plot, it shows a peak of 58.5 mph. The difference in top wind gust velocity is due to the slightly different log times. The weather station’s own log times don’t happen at the same time it sends data to Wunderground.
The power went out at 1:49 PM, was restored at 3:02 PM, so not too bad, just over an hour.
This is PVREA’s outage map at 2:10 PM. We’re in the brown spot showing 98 customers affected at the lower left.
This is Xcel’s map at 2:16 PM showing huge outages all over the Denver metro area.
This is CDOT’s road closure map. They still had 36 closed when we were going to Nissi’s.
