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    Another non-event. Precip since I installed my new PWS on 9/15 is 0.84 inches, which correlates very well with the two official stations around here. Last year, Cherry Creek Reservoir was completely frozen over by now; this year, not a trace of ice.
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    Thanks. That describes the spatial changes but not as much the late Fall trend. Maybe not enough tornadoes to show up as a signal with STP or numbers of reports of strong tornadoes, but it sure seems different.
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    It seems like the period between 11/20 and 12/15 has become particularly scary for TN and NC the last 20-30 years in terms of nighttime strong tornadoes. Do we have data to back that up? I remember driving from RDU to western NC for school a little before the turn of the millennium late at night right after Thanksgiving, and encountering some really scary weather. The pattern seems to have continued.
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    We got 1.4", same deal. Surprised you didn't get more- the west side of Boulder and Genesee did well.
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    I've made a snowball in every calendar month in CO. I think Loveland Pass (11992') is the windiest place I've ever been in a car, and I've been through a couple of low-end hurricanes. Is K0CO what you see uphill from Berthoud Pass on the ridge, on the right as you're driving north (toward Winter Park)? That's at least 500 feet above the pass itself.
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    Yup, 68.5 F for a high here in south metro Denver. This time of year, that can only mean a steep temp drop and chance for snow within 48 hrs.
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    A quick and pleasant surprise of 0.7" this AM, enough to get the dogs excited. Gone by 3 PM, in time for a chilly bike ride. Not a bad day.
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    Finished November with a paltry 1.5" of snow and 0.17" total moisture. I wonder if Albuquerque or Denver will have more snow this season.
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    NWS BOU AFD this morning is really interesting- the long term section by someone named Rodriguez is particularly well written, though of course I don't understand all of it. Nothing earth shaking, just a really nice explanation that you don't often see.
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    A while back when I was bored on a long drive between CO and OH (my daughter went to college near Cincinnati) it occurred to me that most time zones line up with longitude lines that are multiples of 15 degrees (duh, there are 24 time zones and GMT is aligned with 0). So Denver is about average for the Mountain Time zone at 105 degrees W, but Cincinnati is way west for the Eastern time zone at 84.5 W. Indiana is even stranger.
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    8 here this AM. Amazing how the first snow of the year can pull down Arctic air to rival midwinter temps.
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    Had 8" on the nose here. Darn good forecasting for a very tricky situation!
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    When in doubt, seems like we go with persistence... not putting the shorts away or the snow tires on anytime soon. Our neighbors have a resurgence of ripe tomatoes.
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    We got just under a foot with that one, though SWE was vanishingly small. A couple weeks later we got a solid 22 inches. That was a good period in there, I think we got somewhere around 45" from mid-Feb to mid-March.
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    I have a new station and need to figure out how to look at those data. Nice! Where I was (probably 10-12 miles from you), there were also some patchy clouds until about 10:15 which probably messed things up a bit, but after that time skies were clear till the end of the eclipse.
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    Most of us have now seen our first freeze of the season, and mountaintops are white for the foreseeable future (we hope!) Leaves are starting to look good in the Denver Metro, about a week behind schedule. The eclipse was very cool yesterday, though I couldn't get any pics that are good. Supposed to be 80 in Denver midweek. El Nino, what bring you?
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    Dare we end this thread to create a cold season thread? I know, I just committed us to 3 months of +4 average temps and bone-dryness. What the heck.
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    Remarkable for the end of Sept to see the mountains snow-free from a distance. Still mowing parts of the lawn (the shady ones) with some regularity. The few tomatoes we have are not in danger with no temps <40 F yet.
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    Not here, but up on Mt Evans > 11K ft.. There was a poster who mentioned a dusting on Pikes Peak a few days ago.
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    Will be interesting to see tomorrow morning- guessing based on temps down here in Denver there will be widespread snow above treeline. Typically the first real snow is around 9/7 (though it often all melts) so we are a little late but not much.
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    Did the same when my kids were that age back in MA. Most (wet) fun we had in years. They still talk about it 15 years later.
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    Been a week so I thought I'd post something. Late summer here has been so hot lately. Noticed that this August was the first since 2018 that was not in the top 6 warmest for DEN, though still quite warm (especially the end!) and, for some, trending drier again east of the Divide and south of FoCo. Early Sept lately has been nuts compared to climatology. Thought highs in the upper 90s were done... not yet.
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    Note to self: stratus + cold front=no daily rise in temps and no instability, no matter what forecasts say. Upslope was minimal this time.
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    Still plenty of time to get good rains later this afternoon and overnight. Super hard to forecast- if there had been even a tiny opportunity for convection it would be raining very hard somewhere, but as a few forecasts hinted last night, convective temps were not a slam dunk. Still, the few showers we've had around here have been efficient rain producers, and a few areas have had a lot so far especially north of town. Closest PWS to me has 0.47" so far today. It's pretty chilly!! 61 here near DTC.
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    I guess there are no California posters in this subforum- posting here because "mountain west" may include the San Gabriels etc. Lots of totals from the last 36 hours in southern CA over 5 inches- half their yearly rainfall. Flash flooding, road washouts. Palm Springs is in particularly rough shape. Anybody from that area?
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