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Those are beautiful web cam shots indeed. It's good to see at least a little bit of snow on those high peaks. Here on the northern front range we don't even have that. I fish on the Poudre River quite a bit and it is basically a trickle now. Many lakes and reservoirs are drying up. If this winter doesn't at least start making a dent in this drought, things are going to get pretty ugly water-wise.

Agree with this. I've lived on the front range since the '60's. It was fairly common to have early snow storms in October, or even in September (September 1971 was memorable). We would almost always have 1 or 2 snows in the books by Halloween. Now the front range often doesn't see its first snow until November, or even later. Looking back, IMHO things shifted around the year 2000 to warmer and drier. Bummer for those of us who don't like that!

I'm late in responding but thanks for this and provides some hope. I was disappointed though yesterday to see the extended outlook (7-10 days) calls for significant warming and lack of storms. This is not the way we want to start October! As we've seen time and time again this year, these high pressure systems tend to hang around too long - hope this one doesn't .

Thanks for sharing this - impressive! It's nice to see this type of record being broken in this region for a change, rather than heat and dryness....

Seems like really bad forecasting to miss it this badly!

I hear ya. Weighing in here from the Fort Collins area. It looks like we're way too far north to cash in on any of this moisture. Should be getting to used to that by now but still get PO'd about it! Hope you guys in Denver metro get something out of it. BTW here in northern CO and in WY to our north it's been a miserably hot and dry year, and seemingly no end to it.

Wow I didn't realize Denver is actually lower than Fort Collins - usually it's wetter. It doesn't really matter though, it's just dry everywhere. We have friends in Wyoming and its super dry there too. It seems we ought to be able to get enough the rest of this year do not break our record, but you have to factor in that average precip for the remaining months of the year get less and less...'

As many of us are in this region, this year Fort Collins will be flirting with recording the driest year in recorded history (which is 7.34"). Currently we sit at 5.97" for the year. It seems we start getting some decent monsoon moisture and then the door gets slammed shut again. Supposedly El Nino conditions are forecast this fall but I'm not holding my breath that it will make any difference in alleviating the drought. One can hope tho....

Yes this is a definite concern for many of us. Hoping for a turn for the better in our weather pattern but who knows when that might be

Is this extreme pattern a result of weather modification or solar geoengineering projects gone awry? Just asking for a friend . I'm only aware of smaller weather mod efforts like cloud seeding done years ago,, but you have to wonder. I mean, the high temperature records broken this winter, and especially this latest heat wave, are smashing records not just breaking them.

Unreal for March at that elevation!

Looking at the bigger picture of what's causing these massive high pressure systems (which we've seen happen repeatedly the last ~6 months or so) and the extreme high temperatures and high temperatures, I'd be interested in ideas about when or if this pattern might break down. It seems we're just stuck in it indefinitely, but at some point things HAVE to change, right? What I read is that a weak La Nina has been in place (now fading) and has resulted in a persistent western high pressure ridge being placed perhaps further east than 'normal'. But have we not seen similar patterns many times before that didn't result in such extremes? It seems like we're in uncharted territory now - with the possible exception of the Dust Bowl years which obviously none of us were around to experience . Thanks in advance for your thoughts....

Just sharing some eye candy from March 14, 2021 - this pic is out our patio door. We're in the foothills northwest of Fort Collins. 40"+ from this one storm and 120" for that season. Man how things have changed in just 5 years - sad.

Good to hear! We're in the foothills not too far from you as the crow flies. We've picked up some snow as well this month. Unfortunately every bit of moisture we get is quickly sucked up by the un-ending wind. I've lost track of the severe wind events we've had this past fall/winter; we've had our power knocked out 4 or 5 times.

We live in the foothills west of Fort Collins and you can add about 5 mph to what Fort Collins had. It kinda tore up our trailer cover, that had previously survived fierce winds the past several years. Oh well the damage could have been worse - our house and trailer are still standing .