Snowmass Village, Colorado. Snowmass Village is a Home Rule Municipality in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The population was 2,826 at the 2010 census. A popular winter resort location for skiing and snowboarding, the town is well known as the location of the Snowmass ski area, the largest of the four nearby ski areas operated collectively as Aspen/Snowmass. In 2010 the accidental discovery by a bulldozer operator of fossilized elements of a Pleistocene ecosystem in the ice age lake bed at the Ziegler Reservoir pu
â¢ If you can hear thunder, you are within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of a stormâand can be struck by lightning. Seek shelter and avoid situations in which you may be vulnerable. â¢ Use the 30-30 rule, when visibility is good and there is nothing obstructing your view of the thunderstorm.
How to estimate lightning's distance. The time between seeing a lightning flash and hearing the thunder it produces is a rough guide to how far away the lightning was. Normally, thunder can be heard up to 10 miles from the lightning that makes it.