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I am thinking about doing some more things with regard to making loops of radar and other maps where I need to a screen-capture. I have normally been using a click-and-drag method in a simple picture editor. I want to switch to some Windows utility that can create screen captures with the exact same dimensions, with the exact same pixels of the screen captured over and over. This is because it looks better when I produce the loop. Any recommendations?

my place got 3-4" 12" of snow in downtown should've gotten a winter storm warning

5" of snow reported in downtown Denver.

The storm is starting here. The radar shows some slightly bubbly or convective areas of snow. My place has a few snowflakes so far. 700mb winds are E or SE. Surface winds are NE, E, or SE. Edit: winter weather advisory for Denver city.

The 18z NAM and the 18z GFS are very different for Denver on this storm, but have less differences for my immediate area. I suppose the models are just having a hard time finding out the mesoscale details for the upslope snow band. A winter weather advisory has been issued for south and west of the Denver metro.

The GFS and Canadian have storms on Thursday and Sunday. The GFS show a concentration of snow close to Boulder with the NE upslope component on Thursday. Overall, the entire area may have directly east winds at 700mb, which would be snowy for all areas around I-25. The Euro has 0.3" to 0.6" of QPF on Thursday for the Front Range cities, but nothing after that. Some GFS ensemble members are snowy for Sunday, some are not.

For Salina KS, February 11th-17th (7 days) averaged 29.7 degrees F below average. Wichita had 28.4 degrees below average.

My loops from storms this month. I decided to make a 30-frame GFS surface loop from the whole last week because it was such a big cold wave and a big snowstorm for NW Ohio and snowy for many other areas. http://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Feb_12_19_2021_GFS_sfc_loop.html http://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Feb_15_2021_radar_loop.html http://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Jan_30_2021_500mb_loop.html http://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Jan_30_2021_850mb_loop.html http://www.greatlakes.salsite.com/Jan_30_2021_GFS_sfc_loop.html

Models have been showing some snow for Colorado, next week maybe Thursday-Friday. the plot like this for 7-day difference from normal sort of ran out of colors...

I wonder how many continuous hours that some part of Texas has had a cold-weather-related watch, warning, or advisory.

My place just got 4" of snow (3.5" on the low end), which is more snow in the last 4 hours than I have in any 24-hour time period since October. "Fun Surprise" -- unfortunately I have to drive somewhere tomorrow, but the roads will probably be ok by then. At least it is certainly warmer than 0 degrees this time around. radar from 7:44PM

Heavy snow formed around Fort Collins and has moved toward me-- mesoscale snow blob.

flakes

Yesterday, mesonet stations showed around -10 to -18 around Fort Collins/Loveland/Greeley and even -20 near Greeley. Today, it has warmed up to the upper 30's this afternoon. This is at least one extreme point in our otherwise bland winter. You might hate me for saying this, but I am kind of glad I don't have to shovel or drive around in much snow, like I did in Nov/Dec and Feb of 2019-2020. Really, the only remarkable thing since November, before this week, was a few days of 50mph or 60mph wind gusts. Here is an interactive basin-data web site that I found a while ago. The other map that I used to post never shows the SWE for California basins. It seems like 88% is the number of the day around here. It's not highly impressive, but still, not the absolute worst winter-drought situation.

Some +SN and 1/4 mile visibility and wind gusts over 20 kt and even 34 kt near where I used to live east of Toledo

Damascus, GA

I have been looking at weather maps for a long time. I cannot remember seeing a day when Texas was 50 degrees below average. Hmm. Abilene TX climate report says that the high temp of 22 was 38 degrees below average. Tomorrows low will be 37 degrees below average. Midland TX had 45 degrees below average for the high today and 28 degrees below average for the low that already occurred today.

Heavier snow is coming into the Fort Worth area. And even with this, 10 degrees is no joke-- salt doesn't work quite so well to melt the ice.

lowest temps in my area

My place did not get too much. 2". Drought sucks.

blue has taken over

This will be a very good storm for the Colorado mountains, certainly compared to most storms recently. The values shown by the NWS for the plains are probably a blend of models, which predict light snow at various times, mostly focusing on Saturday night to Sunday night. My area got something like 1/4" of snow last night, which is the first snowcover in several days. The GFS and NAM have over 0.4" QPF in the immediate area, with high snow ratios on the Kuchera snow plots, so I suppose we may want to watch and see if snow amounts could be higher. And even in this cold, cold world, Craig, Colorado has -RA right now.

Weather-related disaster in Fort Worth. You guys have probably already heard this on the news if you are from this area.

As of right now, I don't have a lot of confidence in any particular forecast of snow. The only thing I really know is that the mountains will get snow on many of these days, and we may be in a sad situation: we will have cold temperatures be in place, while every other region around us gets snow. Nevertheless, models have some QPF. Somewhere in here, 00z Sunday to 00z Monday, we could get 2-6", as this 0.3" in Fort Collins and Cheyenne could have 20:1 snow ratios.

Fort Collins-CSU had a temperature drop of 24.1 degrees in 10 minutes (5:20 to 5:30PM). As you can see on the image I posted, some stronger easterly winds yesterday advanced the arctic air. We had gusty westerly winds and quickly switched to gusty easterly winds. As of right now, APA (Denver/Centennial) is 20 degrees warmer than DEN. It will be interesting to see if the inversion breaks and Fort Collins or Greeley get up to 32 or something like that.