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This is epic. The great storm of December 1st-5th 1913 had over 40" in Denver and this says 38" east of Denver. By the way I did a quick check of the biggest snowstorm in Colorado Springs (Airport) in modern times and it was something like 19.5 in October 1997. (1997-1998 El Nino)

Detroit was +3.5F for October, Toledo was +1.6. Detroit had a warmer average temperature, Detroit had 56.5, Toledo had 56.2.

downtown Denver and Colorado Springs and Fall River Road/RMNP

Interesting coincidence at this time of year, early November. It's not exactly an analog, well, not 100% match by any means. There was a deep trough in AZ/NM that created a heavy snow storm for the Plains in 1991. It was coincident to the Perfect Storm. It's partially because the Perfect Storm blocked up the ridge in the east. There was 10"-20" by Pueblo and Trinidad. The snow continued up the Plains with, I believe, 15-30" by Duluth, Minnesota. Maybe Mayjawintastawm actually was in Massachusetts for the Perfect Storm's waves. Maybe you saw George Clooney sail out on the Andrea Gail.

so I guess this is happening

Here is a snapshot of hour-to-hour record breakers

new confirmed tornado north of that one where I showed the funnel cloud icon

small squall-line tornado at Crane MO

This report icon is actually a funnel cloud, by Branson Missouri

now this is showing a large debris, with easy to see 70-80mph storm relative winds on the west side

this tornado has tracked maybe 10 miles in eastern Oklahoma

with all apologies to Phil Collins of Genesis... here's the next DenverBoulder forecast dicussion. Note NWS-WPC has 1"-3" total QPF in the next week from Denver to the southeastern portion of Colorado

Dallas Fort Worth on the boundary of the 5% tornado outlook (slight risk)

multiple models have a 500mb low at the Four Corners. Here is the new GEFS individual models showing significant total snow accumulations for the mountains (and maybe more) from generally 48hr-120hr (2days-5days)

a few days ago this web cam had much more yellows on the trees, much like my yard here in Ohio. You wouldn't tend to think that the peak colors at 7000 ft would be at the same time as some of the Midwest... but it must have been warm.. you know like 8 deg above normal.

Sunday night. The convective allowing models have, perhaps a mess of a squall line, perhaps a number of supercells. There should be with higher storm-relative helicity available with a chance of significant tornadoes.

three slight risk effective outlooks

the Crestone Baca looking north (apparently), the west side of the Sangre De Cristos. According to that, then it's near "the Crestones," two peaks that I never got to but I sort of imagined myself climbing

I found some more web cams

I tried some sunset pics yesterday. Perhaps this symbolizes the end of the summertime weather. It feels like October was 80% clear skies.

I think RCFN in Taiwan will see some stronger winds soon!

Not a whole lot is going on yet. It might be that this is a fairly weak severe weather outbreak, despite the enhanced risk for tornadoes/wind and decent S.T.P. radar 6:25 central time

A tornado watch will be issued fairly soon (Wichita, Oklahoma City)

these were record highs

There are some winter weather advisories for UT/CO, and also winter storm warnings for limited areas of Wyoming.