Colorado (Denver Metro area) is having a big snow storm today, somewhere between 6″ and 2′ (probably a foot).  And while most people would know this from looking out the window or watching the weather radar map, it is showing up in an interesting place: Google Trends.

20 of the top 100 Google Trend keywords are related to the Colorado snow storm.  Interestingly, only 6 entities are associated with these key words: DIA (airport), CDOT (government transportation dept.), 9News (local TV) and three schools.  Wonder what their web traffic was like today?  It is interesting that only one media property showed up, and multiple times; they clearly own the weather brand in the market.

The trends below (and screenshot) were captured at 12:30 pm MST, when about 4-8″ of snow had fallen on the Denver Metro area.  At 9am, there was only 1-2″.

It looks like Colorado’s only other real competition was President Obama (had speech today) and weather in Texas and Mississippi.

Here is a screenshot (link to view full size):

Here are the 20 keywords, in bold:

1.     angela lansbury
2.     rue la la
3.     denver international airport
4.     thea vidale
5.     dan seals
6.     whitehouse.gov
7.     kyocera ecopro c170n
8.     sonya hamm
9.     kyocera ecopro c170n 17ppm color laser printer
10.     online town hall
11.     jennifer hepner
12.     one second after
13.     cdot
14.     ryan moats
15.     ruelala.com
16.     white house easter egg roll 2009
17.     poudre school district
18.     obama town hall meeting
19.     magee ms
20.     magee mississippi
21.     kim kardashian cellulite pictures
22.     colorado department of transportation
23.     mile high music festival 2009
24.     tammy leitner
25.     cdot colorado
26.     obama online
27.     colorado road conditions
28.     9 news
29.     ksat 12 weather
30.     denver weather
31.     lisa persdotter
32.     robert o ryan
33.     kim kardashian complex magazine
34.     valerie bertinelli in a bikini
35.     www.whitehouse.gov
36.     woai weather
37.     9news
38.     ibm layoffs
39.     sarah l. tolzien
40.     whitehouse.gov government
41.     shawn johnson stalker
42.     miss montana jennifer hepner
43.     mk89 strikemaster
44.     willie aames
45.     www.whitehouse.gov/eastereggroll
46.     dancing with the stars stalker
47.     three stooges movie
48.     cheryl hines
49.     cdot camera
50.     cherry creek school district
51.     whitehouse.gov/eastereggroll
52.     colorado weather
53.     amalia tabata
54.     billy gillispie
55.     dia airport
56.     9news.com
57.     the brighter side column
58.     joy behar age
59.     mississippi tornado
60.     tommy bahama
61.     kelly clarkson on oprah
62.     denver news
63.     st vrain valley school district
64.     leon czolgosz
65.     mysa.com
66.     baby bangs
67.     julius shulman
68.     jose tabata
69.     bby
70.     zbt industries incorporated
71.     9news weather
72.     kens 5
73.     ctic
74.     san antonio weather
75.     flesh eating fish
76.     kim kardashian untouched photo
77.     magee miss
78.     storks footprint
79.     wlbt
80.     denver traffic cameras
81.     charles simonyi
82.     colorado school closures
83.     white house town hall
84.     09wheggroll.frontgatetickets.com
85.     american idol motown
86.     wild dunes resort charleston sc
87.     california safari
88.     cotrip.org
89.     arnold palmer invitational
90.     pat oliphant
91.     jocelyn wildenstein
92.     oliphant gaza cartoon
93.     forecastle festival
94.     bay hill invitational 2009
95.     university of missouri
96.     faraday cage
97.     magee tornado
98.     elliot in the morning
99.     prince on jay leno
100.     map of mississippi

Will Internet TV and online media get a catylst?  It has to some degree, but it may come faster than we thought if this strike keeps going.  There is a lot being said about this topic, here is just one good article from FT.com…

Hollywood warned ‘writers will move online’

The head of the union representing striking film and television writers has issued a stark warning to US media companies that writers and audiences will migrate to the internet in the event of a prolonged strike.

Pay talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents companies including Walt Disney, News Corporation and Viacom, ended acrimoniously last week.

But with the strike in its second month, Patric Verrone, president of the WGA West, said the dispute was creating “entrepreneurial possibilities for the talent community to go directly into production and distribution”. He added: “With every day that goes by, our members are exploring internet TV. The ability to explore this business without media conglomerates is becoming a real possibility.”