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Promise and hope do not the winter weather make

 As we write, the view across the Valley is blocked by a solidly impenetrable mist; earlier, at sunrise, low clouds unfurled to reveal skiffs and fields of snow on the high peaks; the ranch rain gauge read .07 inch of precipitation. The forecast for the Tribune publication dates indicates a perhaps wishful, but nonetheless meteorologically sci­ence-based, 50% to 40% possibility (the move from “likely” to “chance”) of snow showers. In the expanded, friendly, chatty weatherspeak from the National Weather Service (NWS) in Pueblo, “Though models still consistently show a system coming through in Thursday into Friday timeframe, there is still a lot of run-to-run and model-to-model disagreement…Overall, it does seem likely that we will see a cool down, and meaningful moisture and precipitation chances at…