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  1. ValpoVike
    A watch has been hoisted for the foothills and mountains mostly east of the Divide for Wednesday a.m. thru Thursday night. WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations between 1 to 2 feet, with isolated totals up to 3 feet possible. Winds could gust as high as 35 mph.
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    In the protected areas of rmnp at that elevation, likely between 30-36”. Around 9500’ there is a 50” snowpack. The park above 9k’ is seeing a very normal snowpack, right at 100% of seasonal average.
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    The Euro and GFS are both showing a good storm for the second half of next week for the foothills with the Euro QPF coming in at 1.5"+ and the GFS is bonkers with widespread 3"+ totals. It would be right on time for our big March events, so fingers crossed.
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    A beautiful snow up here, with large flake size. I am already at 3”. My hopes are high!
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    Spot on with the 7k’ typical cutoff. I am at 7300’ and every spring I do get some respectable dumps, but also have 1 or 2 times where my neighbors 200’ above me get all snow, while I get a mushy mostly rain mix. It is always fascinating the gradients in these spring like storms.
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    Patience is key. We get our big dumps in March and April. I am up near Estes and one of the biggest I have seen was in mid-May.
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    I agree that it definitely has a March spring feel to this storm. Lot's of GOM moisture, but really sharp gradients...and heck why not, this week certainly feels like late March anyways.
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    I just saw that too. The Euro in particular has some crazy accumulations.
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    It looks like there may be a strong inversion in place or something. Looking at Davis Weathernet, my station is at -17, a nearby neighbors station is -18, but stations 5 miles away in Estes and a couple hundred feet higher are in the +teens. That’s a huge difference.
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    Merry Christmas to y’all and here’s to hoping that some of us have a little snow cover this weekend. On a personal note, FedEx dropped off a heavy box yesterday addressed to my wife. I couldn’t help but notice that the sender was Davis Instruments. I have the best wife ever
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    That is par for the course in many storms. Often either southern/central Boulder foothills and Larimer foothills will get widely divergent snow totals.
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    Ended up with 3.5”. Not a lot, but most of it came in a two hour burst last evening.
  13. ValpoVike
    This is looking to be a narrow event for the front range… Boulder-Longmont-FoCo. I got my hopes up yesterday for 10-12” up here but that has been reduced significantly. Interestingly, this is pretty much what the GFS has been showing for many days now, with most QPF in a narrow stripe at the base of the foothills. Happy Thanksgiving!
  14. ValpoVike
    11.5” here, about 5 miles north of town. Yeah power is out in the entire EP Valley. This is the 2nd time for the transmission lines running down to Loveland have failed over the past year. They are slowly bringing power back on line thru a backup source running thru the Alva tunnel that goes thru the divide west. So it will be back soon.
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    Several lightning strikes in a band just NW of Lake George.
  16. ValpoVike
    Grab some microspikes and hike Gem Lake. You won’t have to drive the park but you can still get a hike in. Will be pretty cold though…
  17. ValpoVike
    Saturday thru Sunday look interesting up here. GFS and ECMWF both showing some decent snow, around 6"-9". Trying not to get my hopes up, but cautiously optimistic as models seem to be generally aligned.
  18. ValpoVike
    I got a deck dusting overnight. Technically, first snow of the fall.
  19. ValpoVike
    I’ll take it. Light but steady rain all day so far. Our area in Larimer county just can’t take a heavy rain event after so many this summer.
  20. ValpoVike
    Woke up around 2’ish this morning to the sound of boulders crashing down the Miller Fork. Fortunately I live 300’ above the streams but many got flood damage.
  21. ValpoVike
    You should try to watch a loop of the activity in Larimer county during the Ft Collins rain event. The dynamics and storm motions were interesting.
  22. ValpoVike
    I am having concerns about heavy rain should storms fire as predicted today. My home weather station is showing a current dewpoint of 60, which is very unusual for my location.
  23. ValpoVike
    Lookie at what happened today.
  24. ValpoVike
    Estes Park fireworks got postponed to July 15. Not sure about other communities.
  25. ValpoVike
    Dang, summer made it finally!
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