ValpoVike

The 12z GFS is still not backing off for the upcoming storm on Thursday-Friday, at least for the foothills. Regarding last night's precip, my snow melted fast this morning and my gauge recorded 0,40" in total including the rain yesterday. Not too bad and I am hoping that the next storm delivers whether it comes as rain or snow.

I picked up 2” overnight which was a bit of a surprise. This on top of the 0.19” rain from earlier in the afternoon.

It has been consistently there since last Thursday model runs.

Both GFS and ECMWF are very bullish for next week. Here is a snippet of total snow thru Friday 5/1. We'll see....

Muted a bit, but good to see that it did materialize.

Yeah the models are already backing off. Sigh.

The models seem (today) to be in good agreement on a good snowstorm for the foothills and Palmer divide on Friday. Hopefully, this one does not evaporate as we get closer.

Yeah it’s been windier in the foothills than usual for sure. I lost 3 large and mature trees in December, and a couple of weeks later I lost a portion of fencing. Looking forward to eventual calm weather.

It hasn’t been a terrible March up here. Sitting at 1.26” LE for the month. YTD is 1.74”, so yeah January and most of Feb was underwhelming.

Fantasy-land, but the Euro and GFS are both showing a storm for the middle (Euro) to late (GFS) last week of the month. I hate posting long range stuff but since the last storm was spied in the long range, I thought what the heck

CSU closed their campus this afternoon due to falling trees. I have heard that someone was injured and a car damaged. I clocked a high gust up here of only 47mph, but apparently FoCo had gusts over 60mph.

6am and overnight I picked up about 4.5”. I am quite optimistic that we will significantly bust the high end point forecast of 6”. I will now finally get to use my tractor’s new rear plow blade Edit: Snow+ and picked up an additional 1.5” over 45 minutes. Now right at 6”.

Crazy, but we got our first advisory of the year for Friday. Unbelievable that we haven't had one yet.

I must have had some unmelted snow in the Davis gauge as the storm total increased to .43”. Best moisture in forever.

A pretty good day up here with rain, rain/snow, and even sleet. The gauge registered .28” so far for the day which is very welcome.