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Models are showing some snow for Colorado with an open 500mb trough on this Saturday.

Yesterday afternoon, my area had 25-50mph wind gusts, if not more. Late in the afternoon, the temperature was 35 degrees and the wind chill was certainly in the range of 25 degrees. Today, things were a much more normal 57, with just a breeze, and some lenticular clouds.

Some moderate rain/snow and thunder in the Snake River Valley of Idaho tonight.

Our area has some high wind watches. The NAM has about 25 kt (30mph) at the surface and 50 kt (58mph) at 3000 ft above ground tomorrow morning/afternoon. So I'm pretty sure my area will get some gusts to 50mph or more.

My area had 58 on Sunday with less wind than I might have expected, followed up with temperatures around 28 for the snowfall on Monday. Today's models show a little better snow for Friday/Saturday, mostly over 9000ft (east) or 8000ft (west). Perhaps we will have more dropping temperatures for this weekend. I wonder if we will have a trend of cold fronts on weekends. Yesterday- I didn't really step outside to look at this, but I wish I did. My pic from October 25th/26th

Small bow echo at Rockford, IL

My area got about 2.5" of snow.

NWS-NDFD snowfall totals (60 hrs)

A deep low pressure area in Wyoming and Montana on Saturday and Sunday will bring in some snow and even some rain for western areas of Colorado on those days. There will be perhaps a bit more snow for for Monday and Tuesday for mountain areas. It appears that most of eastern Colorado will get some warm temperatures on Saturday with possible strong southerly winds, with temperatures dropping on Sunday. A wind advisory seems possible for Saturday. Models have 1" of QPF for the western half of Colorado, with 2"+ for the southwest San Juan range.

Tuesday morning's lows (Mesowest)

New Mexico to West Texas storm reports (Oct 26-28) -- all times included

A couple of observations with gusts to 68mph

I am seeing an oil rig reporting 45mph gusting to 87mph near or in the eyewall. (kind of the edge of the KLIX radar range.)

72-hour snowfall analysis

Radar update for just Albuquerque

I got 8.7" of snow, by my measurements. On CoCoRAHS, my area got 0.80" of precipitation, and 8.3"-12.6" of snow. Edit: I'm not really sure why, but maybe my measurements were too low.

Snowfall was lighter for a while, but KFNL is now reporting 1/4 mile visibility, and I would say we are getting 1/2" of snow per hour.

I may have underestimated the snow at 12:00 or 12:30. I have gotten up to 6" by 2:30.

I've got heavy snow rates here. Edit: I measured 3.5". It will probably be 4.5" within 1 hour. KFNL 251856Z 35014KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG OVC004 M11/M13 A3026 RMK AO2 TWR VIS 2 SLP301 P0000 T11111133 FZRANO KFNL 251838Z 36013KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG BKN004 OVC008 M11/M13 A3025 RMK AO2 TWR VIS 2 P0000 FZRANO KFNL 251824Z 35012KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG OVC007 M11/M13 A3027 RMK AO2 TWR VIS 2 CIG 005V009 P0000 FZRANO

The storm is going to start here soon. We may only get a trace of snow before 1:00 or 2:00AM, but then I expect more steady accumulation.

Look at tonight's GFS. This is 100% absolutely nuts for lower elevations of New Mexico and West Texas and western Kansas-- up to 25" with ratios near Dalhart, TX. The weird part is, the new hurricane near Louisiana could be feeding moisture into this system by the time it gets down there.

The models show values that are pretty high-- even with 10:1 snow rations, and obviously higher with Kuchera snow ratios.

From NWS Boulder

It is a dark day here. The East Troublesome smoke plume is above the stratus clouds here, and whole sky appears dark orange in the middle of the day. There is about 3x as much ash as any other day-- the ash is noticeable on the sidewalks.

7-day snow accumulation from the GEFS-mean takes the snow and cold well down into New Mexico and northwest Texas, as well as all over Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.