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4 minutes ago, AppsRunner said:

Holding firm on the Warnings/Advisories. Seems like most accums for the metro are going to come afternoon into overnight tomorrow. Still think a good snow is in store for the metro, but it's going to be borderline.

Long as there's a good slug of moisture that gets into the ground, I'll be happy. Snow before the equinox somehow doesn't thrill me as much as it would in, say, October. But I have to say this kind of setup is something I'd kill for in February. Somehow the last few years, any 4 corners lows seem to come and go in a matter of a few hours.

14 minutes ago, Uncle Bobby said:

I live near Lamar CO where yesterday's record high of 107.6°F is also a record for all of September.  Mid-90's today, snow by Wednesday morning!

wow! Congrats?!? Too much. Hope you get a lot of precip, in whatever form!

Smoke made it down here this morning. Smells like a campfire again after about a week respite.

101. Dang. My location has QPF of 1.32" for the Mon-Tues event. That's more than total precipitation way back to June 9th. And snow "accumulation" of 4.9 inches. Wow. Usually we wind up with about half the QPF that's predicted 3 days out, but we can hope....  the concrete patio around our house has sunk down about 2 inches from its normal height.

New PWS installed last night! It's a bit close to the roof so monitoring for too-high temps in the sun, but today it seems in line with other readings nearby. Wind, of course, has accurate direction but not speed. Trees in the neighborhood prohibited any accurate siting for wind. 98 for a high so far, that might be it. Temp rose 39 degrees in 4 hours this AM. We shall see what the drop looks like Mon/tues. Hope the rain sensor gets a workout!

22 hours ago, Chinook said:

Western states drought statistics... so sad.

May well be worse tomorrow when this week's comes out....

Bizarre. Because of no hail, a hot Jul/Aug, and no vacation (so I could water), I have more tomatoes and peppers than ever, the only good thing to come out of this summer. They are not yet ripe. It better not snow!!!

Weird. Closer to home, there is talk of a strong cold front on Monday just in time for the start of meteorological Fall with freezing levels down to 9000 feet- would be great if there would be some moisture with it. Wishcasting to some extent. Cough.

On 8/15/2020 at 11:00 AM, Chinook said:

Satellite image from last night-- the clouds that you see in the north/central of Colorado are largely pyrocumulus

 

We spent the weekend camping underneath the southern one of those plumes- great to get out, but still coughing now that we're home. Sunsets were blood red. Saw a DC-10 tanker headed north toward the Cameron fire this morning. My goodness.

Bit of a heat burst just now, got windy then temp went up 5 degrees and dew point went down 5 degrees in the past 30 minutes.

me too... that one just east of Parker looked substantial. The NWS storm total precip graphic since Monday AM has quite a hole over most of the metro but especially the south metro- can't get it to copy, but you know what I mean.

Good to know, since I have to climb on the roof for mine. Will put the longest lasting batteries I can find into it!

17 hours ago, ValpoVike said:

Yeah, today has been a bust for most areas north.  Congrats on the new station!  What model did you get?

Got an AccuRite Pro something... was sort of hoping for a Davis but they were too pricey.

There is a large severe thunderstorm watch up for the entire CO and WY Front Range, so far, after 4 hours, there are exactly zero storm reports. Radar is looking mighty sparse.

On a brighter note, I got a home weather station for my birthday last week, to replace one that’s been beaten up over the past several years (Anemometer broken by hail and a tree fell on the rain gauge). Need to go up on the roof and install it!

I'm beginning to think that the next time I see 0.3" or more there will be a vaccine available for coronavirus.

2 hours ago, finnster said:

Thanks Raindance.  That’s the way it goes - the models giveth and then the models taketh away.  I should learn not to get bent out of shape about model runs but I seem to anyway.  It just seems more often than not the cooler/wetter runs do not verify, and the drier/warm ones do....

This was like it was in 2012 (though 2012 was hotter- 95 felt like a respite at times). Then there were a couple years that were cooler and wetter, almost enough to make you forget. The really weird thing about this year has been the abrupt change: how much snow we got and how cold early April was, before everything turned on a dime.

Lot of haves and have nots in CO- this is from Weather5280: we got just under 0.2" last few days, so mostly in the have nots, like FoCo. Crazy storm in Yuma County and just over the border in NE, with 10"+ verified on the ground. Smack on US 34- I wonder if anyone got pics.

1 hour ago, smokeybandit said:

This supposed monsoon is more of a non-soon

Last year was really a nonsoon. This past weekend had hints, but likely short-lived. Tomorrow is one more chance.

Last really decent monsoon was about 4 years ago. I know, Eastern CO never gets it reliably, but we do usually get some rain. This year just hurts more because the usual May-June wet period was REALLY nonexistent. We didn't even really have a single significant hail event (1" or greater) at my house.

Would love some rain! Everything has been getting very crispy in the south Metro area, starting to worry about fires. 

I saw it quite dimly with binoculars only last night- but it was hazy and there was so much diffracted light from Denver that I could barely even make out the Big Dipper with the naked eye.

So far for my comet viewing, it's been smoky or cloudy up in the western sky the last 4 days in a row till after 11 PM. No letup in sight with afternoon and evening (mainly dry) convection. Thinking about driving up over the foothills to get a glimpse at some point.

Part of me hopes for rain in the evenings but more of me hopes for clear skies... starting today, the comet should be visible an hour or so after sunset low in the NW (for me, about halfway between Longs and Mt Evans), climbing a bit higher over the mountains for the next few days.

And we're only at about 63% of normal precip YTD here in Denver, though DEN airport got its first >0.1" in a while a couple hours ago. 

On 7/9/2020 at 10:55 AM, ValpoVike said:

From a buddy up here in Estes of the comet Neowise.  Photo was taken at 4:15am looking northeast, preceding the sun and roughly along the ecliptic.  He reported that it is very naked eye visible, and noted that it was washed out by the sun around 4:45am.

Wow!! Can't wait till it's visible in the evening.

1 hour ago, smokeybandit said:

My first spring in northeast Colorado and severe season has been a big dud

The duddiest since we arrived in 2010. It'll happen if you stick around long enough. Might come in September, who knows.