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Nice. Bust here too, 2.7" total. NWS point forecast was consistently over 6" and actually went up last night as I was getting flurries. 44.4" on the season so far.

Quite a stark picture for eastern CO, even more remarkable considering that period is one of the driest climatologically. We have angered the gods. What did we do? What needs to be sacrificed?

Only good thing is I'm able to keep up my normal 3-season exercising - kind of like an extended, coldish Fall. I've been on my bike more since the Solstice than I have in any other year ever. This is getting really, really boring though.

Thanks Raindancewx! Always interesting food for thought. Trying to remember last season to figure out a calendar year 2019 snow total. I didn't write it down, just tallied it in my head... grr. I'm guessing we had somewhere around 80 inches of snow, with 41.0 since 10/1 (4.2 on 12/28). Not bad at all.

Snow and wind really picking up again here after 2.5" earlier today. Seems like there is upsloping from I-225 south to Monument, based on radar. I don't think it will last long but it's impressive right now.

Yeah, kind of interesting. NWS is now predicting a couple inches for the suburbs E of Denver and DIA, with more the farther east you go. I can't remember a storm quite like this in our 10 winters here, where something comes up from the south and west- it either has been a miss 100 miles east, or a bigger hit.

Back lurking back on the NE forum, as CO has become a December desert and boring as all hell. Anyone remember waaay back in around 1982 when we had "computer models" that predicted a last minute bomb and NWS BOX to issue short-fuse winter storm warnings about 11 PM on Christmas Eve? The Weather Channel had a scrolling red screen, and my high school self got all excited, till the next morning when we realized it was all just a computer-generated dream.

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.

Wow. Send some of that up here. 88 F today after 80 predicted. Getting real dry again. About 0.75" rain in the past month and a bit over an inch the month before that. I think that qualifies as a nonsoon. My water bill is stupid.

I was in MA, in kindergarten at the time. Our teachers had pinhole projectors for it, and I do remember being underwhelmed, though a little apprehensive/scared before it happened. Then it was kind of like "When's the eclipse coming?" "It's over." "what???"

Will be in Hastings, NE, hopefully in between shortwaves. Anyone from here targeting NE? The whole dang Denver metro area is COMPLETELY out of eclipse glasses and the ones I ordered from Amazon last week never came. Maybe some places along our trip route might have some, but feeling a bit out of luck there at this time. Everyplace I've tried has just sold out when I get there. Wish I could make some- a longtime ago I used to use 35mm film...

Booked perhaps the only room under $500 left within a couple hours of totality in central Nebraska... lucky that we'll be taking a family trip to Chicago at the time anyway, and a relatively small detour. There is NEVER traffic around where we're staying, but I expect there will be considerable traffic anyway. We'll have about 80 miles to drive the morning of, to get to a good place (targeting Hastings., will stay away from I-80 till it's done). Think I'll go find the Nebraska DeLorme atlas or something in case back roads are needed. Have not tornado chased, but I imagine it will be a similar kind of thing (though the only danger will be from the other cars!!) Looked like Omaha still had a few reasonable rooms left a couple days ago. More traffic issues there for sure.

Thinking the farther north and west you are, the less likely to encounter clouds and/or haze to decrease the drama. We'll be taking my daughter to college in OH and driving either from or to CO, so either I-80 in NE or I-70 in MO (totality covers its ENTIRE LENGTH in MO) are a good bet. It'll be around 1 PM CT... are PM thunderstorms a good bet in MO? NE tends to dry out a lot in August.

Welcome! I would like some fog, please. Getting drier and hotter each day. Any thoughts on the start of the SW monsoon? Last year it was a bit of a "nonsoon". Us in the big squarish states could use some more moisture, soon.

That one would be a gutter ball. I don't think I've seen one at quite that low a latitude. Need some bumpers on the lanes. Why does it look to me like the ridge wants to build right back on top of it?