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Good morning! 9 hours, 9 inches down here, storm total 9.3 so far as of 6 AM. Guessing 15:1 ratio based on shovel weight. I bet some places between Boulder and Estes Park are closing in on 25".

Greetings from the dry slot. Congrats to those in Longmont/Broomfield and points north! Loveland and FoCo were shafted so many times the past year... now it's your turn. We'll get into it, eventually, I hope.

I know, right?! When I was in SNE it would have stupid high amounts, and here in CO it lives up to its name: the No Accumulation Model.

OK, just as things were getting consistent with around a foot of snow for Denver metro, some models are pulling the plug less than 12 hours before things start, especially in my neck of the woods. WTF?? I can look at GFS, NAM and HRRR. GFS is backing off some (6-9 inches); NAM backing off a bit more (like 5-7), and HRRR keeps the Metro area completely dry through midnight while whacking Fort Collins with over an inch of precip. Jeesh.

We got a surprise 2.5" at least, maybe a hair more. Not expected! Good moisture and the commute home will be fine, just as we like it. 23" on the season to date. I think this is the most pre-Thanksgiving snow we've had since we moved here in 2010.

We got 7.5" from round 2, more than half of which fell 6 AM-9 AM yesterday. Low of +6 F this AM. With 5" from round 1, and 7" total from the other two snows, we have 19.5" total for October. Never, ever thought I'd be posting this a month ago!!

5" total on my snow board, with a bit over 3" overnight, assuming this round is done. There are spots on my very slow greased-road commute to Aurora that look over 6". Even though there was little wind, there was probably some drifting in spots because it was so fluffy.

Kind of busting here so far... 2" of light fluff you can blow off your car with your breath. QPF from the NWS went from 0.5" 24 hours ago to around 0.25", and I think we'll be lucky to get 0.2". Maybe the second round on Tues-Wed will be better.

Seems like we skipped Sept and Oct and went right from August to November.

Yup, other than the fact that all outdoor plants including trees look like they were blasted by a death ray, you can't tell that anything is too different from the way it was last Wednesday. The trees went from green to gray, skipping all the colors in between. Yuck.

I think now would be good. BTW, we got 3.5 inches of snow today, more than I expected. Density was very low for October!

Was 74 here at 5:50 PM after a high of 82, then the brown gust front came through, dropping the temp 20 degrees in 50 minutes. 34 by 9:45 and a brisk 22 this AM. Snow is starting to stick.

"I've seen fire, and I've seen snow... I've seen tornadoes and some hail like you'd never know... I've seen blizzards, heat, and drought that never ends... So I know that I'm in Colorado again." - cue the tomatoes..... (huge apologies to JT but couldn't resist)

Missed it by that much. Sept turned out to average 69.3 degrees, thanks to a slightly cooler than predicted low temp the last couple days of the month, with the old record of 69.4. Of note, however, is that the 2nd warmest Sept came right after the 3rd warmest August. I don't know where to look, but I'd bet that was the warmest Jul-Aug combination on record.

wow! On another note, looks like Denver will set an all time #1 warmest September if forecast temps hold. Previous record was +6.0 in 2015, we're headed for about +6.1 or 6.2. And Centennial, near where I live, only has records going back a few decades, but is now at +8.1 for the month. Bone dry too.

Well... it's Wyoming. Beautiful, very isolated outside of the few big towns (some would say very isolated, period), and one of the coldest places in the lower 48 in the winter. Much drier than you've experienced. The dilemma is that you want to find the "sweet spot" where there are just enough people to have jobs and other resources, but affordable (i.e. not Jackson Hole). These places do exist, you just have to look around some. Same issues with rural poverty that you'd find back East, tempered somewhat by the oil and gas situation.

Nope. (taking a tongue in cheek cue from the Northeast forums, the one word post :))

We finally got enough rain (I'm guessing 0.7") to keep the sprinklers off today. Feels better. Need more!

Thanks Don for chiming in on the Mtn West page... Out of curiosity I looked at Denver's climate pages for September today. Records have been kept for 148 years. We moved to CO in August 2010. Of the 30 daily record highs in September, 14 have been set since we moved here. That is COMPLETELY nuts. And the expected cold front will cool temperatures dramatically. To just a few degrees above normal. Wake me up when September ends.

It wakes up when we have something to talk about (drought and heat doesn't inspire much), but yeah, we could use a few more posters. And right, it's always better to be out enjoying it than inside kvetching about it online...

yeah, we're quite dry over the past month too, probably more like 0.5". Nonsoon weather for sure. Hope it materializes late. Where the heck is the moisture source for the KS/NE rains? It all seems to be coming from the NW- could that much Pacific moisture make it that far?

Interesting- no LSRs at all yesterday from NWS BOU, and no tornado reports to SPC. And I don't know about up in Estes Park, but it certainly wasn't cold at the surface or above in the Denver Metro area.

It was fun to hear the comparisons of the human-made and natural fireworks on 7/4. Pop, pop, pop bang pop pop... BOOOOOOMMMM. We got about an inch of rain on the day we had a 10% chance of precip, and nothing on the day we had a 70% chance. Ah, probabilities.

Also I have the luxury of parking in two places at work, one in a garage but more time consuming to get in and out, and another closer to the door but outside. If the SPC has us in a slight risk or greater, it's inside for me. That's worked pretty well for the past 5 years. At home, it's inside. 6 years ago we had 2+" hail in a surprise late Sept storm and our one outside car was, shall we say, made more aerodynamic by the weather, with $6500 damage to the house.

Welcome! 1. In my (fortunate and unfortunate) experience, you start to worry about dents when hailstones get to 1.5" or greater. and broken windows over 2". 2. Snow fell when temps were right around 32" so it probably insulated the plants somewhat. That's good, and often happens with late Spring snowstorms- a hard freeze without snow is much more damaging. 3. El Nino and some other stuff- raindancewx and Chinook have the good info on that.