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Looks like a bust in lamarie? Visibility is way too good Denver doing pretty well today, trying to avoid a complete bust after not much happening last night. https://www.earthcam.com/usa/colorado/denver/?cam=denver

Wind picking up here. Looks like gusts to 40 this afternoon. We get even drier. If the late week potential storm misses, or is a weak pos, we may be tracking drought lol.

^Too far west.

Yeah a tad maybe. With that wall of high pressure to the NW and some decent cold pressing in, it would be nice to see more indications of the low deepening as it gets to the coast- better chance of a more significant period of frozen on the back end. Plenty of time for some changes.

Cheyenne 10" of snow in 4 hours. Laramie looks blizzardy currently. Denver getting hammered with heavy snow. Super low visibility on the live city cam.

Laramie looks pretty impressive on the webcam. Lots of blowing snow. I guess no one found a Cheyenne webcam.

Denver seems to be getting pummeled pretty good this morning. Looks like the low has finally moved into a position where the front range is getting the more classic easterly upslope.

GEFS with big changes compared to yesterday. Looks more like the EPS/GEPS at h5. The trend to watch imo is the stretching of the wave and the possibility for it to be weaker/ pushed even further south. Not like we haven't seen that a bunch of times this winter when there was otherwise a pretty decent synoptic setup. As advertised the upper ridge to the west is impressive.

0z Global means all imply rain ending as a little snow for the late week system. GEPS is the most aggressive.

CMC has 8-10" of snow for DC on the clown maps.

^Going be a legit blizzard there tonight.

12z mean is actually a little better as low pressure moves off the coast imo. A weakling won't get it done though. Seeing the suggestion of a decent CCB, but this time of year need a legit low to get the combo of cold and rates.

After all the dry weather we could use a soaking rain. It isn't much different really. Cold coming in on the back end usually means cold chasing rain more times than not, even in the heart of winter.

Just poured a Mind Haze DIPA from Firestone Walker. Cheers!

If anyone is bored or just having a beer and wants to watch it snow in Denver..

I saw that. Boulder I think. He still needs to change that screen name. For a second I thought the Broncos acquired Wentz.

50/13. Sky is brilliant blue.

They will see more snow in 3 hours than you've seen in 3 winters lol The last 3 winters have ranged from meh to pathetic, but still a total of 25". They might beat that for a storm total.

Sounds fun, although I am thoroughly enjoying our chilly desert-like day. With synoptic forcing increasing throughout the morning, showers and storms will fill in across southeastward Colorado. With the mid to upper level flow turning to the southeast, these showers and storms will move north-northwestward towards the urban corridor and foothills. Given the strong synoptic forcing and elevated instability, moderate to heavy precipitation will fill in during the late morning across our entire forecast area east of the Continental Divide. Soundings indicate the elevated lapse rates will be greater than moist adiabatic meaning thunderstorms, including thundersnow, will be likely east of I-25. The trickiest part of the forecast today will be the snow amounts during the day across the urban corridor and areas immediately to the east. There will certainly be heavy precipitation rates and with good lapse rates, snow ratios may be close to 9 or 10 to 1 as dendrite aggregates fall towards the surface. However, ground and road temperatures will remain relatively warm as temperatures have been above freezing all night tonight so some melting is expected early on. But once a heavy snow band or two moves over an area, the snowfall rates should be enough to overcome the surface warmth and create accumulations on the ground.

42 here. Time to venture out into the desert air... properly moisturized!

Dry as a bone here, outside of the low spot back in the woods. I am guessing you have drainage issues due to grade and/or poor artificial drainage in a development.

Been awhile since we have had fire weather danger headlines around here.