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  1. ValpoVike
    It was very visible to the naked eye. Yesterday it was at mag 1.5, and I believe this evening it will be 2.5. For sure a bit dimmer this evening and there is a lot of smoke up here, so I don’t have my hopes up too much for a spectacular encore.
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    Another crisp evening, with a celestial bonus.
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    It appears that I will land at 2.97" for August. For my location, it was a productive and nearly perfect monsoon with almost daily rains coming in roughly .1" increments with a couple of of .5" days. More broadly, it did seem to be a mixed bag for August with KDEN logging just under an inch for the month.
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    Sweet!!!
  5. ValpoVike
    Yeah, and all of this monsoonal moisture is coming just in time:
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    Yeah, totally socked in up here all day long in the fog. A very fall-like 55 currently.
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    We picked up .6” of rain today here on the western edge of the Alexander fire. It was a steady and gentle soaking too.
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    I am currently in evacuation on the Alexander fire, marking the second time in four years. Come on Monsoon…
  9. ValpoVike
    Icky and smoky up here. The consolation is that it is not local smoke…yet.
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    Same here, where it is a bit frustrating to see decent QPF all around me. Meanwhile I have been clocking a steady .05"/day for quite some time. But even that I will take.
  11. ValpoVike
    We have done a little better up here. It was dry until a week ago, and over the past week we have had daily .05” rains or so. The past two days have logged a quarter inch each. Not a ton, but better than it could have been. Temps have been quite seasonally average up here, likely tempered by 2pm’ish daily rains and cloud cover.
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    Yeah, no pings!
  13. ValpoVike
    My new truck is at Wally Park, so was extremely curious. Guess I will know for sure on Tuesday!
  14. ValpoVike
    Does anyone know if DIA received damaging hail?
  15. ValpoVike
    Up here and with good dark skies, starting around 9:15pm I could just make out the aurora but when I pointed my iPhone, and wow. I got some excellent photos and the aurora filled the sky in all directions. Around midnight the aurora brightened very considerably and was easily visible with the naked eye, but only to the northwest. I hadn’t see and aurora since the Halloween storm in 2003. The first image is at midnight and the others from earlier in the night all taken in Glen Haven
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    Yep, I noticed that too. They seem to try to give winter one last unwelcomed gasp. EDIT: I just checked 12z and both are backing off.
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    Final tally was 1.72” liquid. Really great moisture.
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    I think it is basically done here. Accumulations were marred by the very high water content and the most I could measure was 5.5” due to compaction and melting. My weather station is showing 1.05” of liquid but I don’t have a heater on it so I’m not certain on the actual amount.
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    About 3” here so far with a temp of 32.
  20. ValpoVike
    Well, there is now a warning out for the foothills for up to a foot below 8500', and up to 2 feet above...
  21. ValpoVike
    Looks like NWS is starting to ramp up the foothills. All of the models are now quite bullish on snowfall, and from what I can see from about 7k' and up...as well as the Palmer Divide. NWS is highlighting 8.5k' and up, and nothing highlighted for the Palmer Divide.
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    Look at GFS...yowzers
  23. ValpoVike
    The last two events have been similar. Forecasts and AFDs have been very conservative while the GFS and Euro held steady for many days, and they seem to verify and slit the difference on accumulation. I am interested to see what happens here.
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    True and something that happens every spring. My neighbor 200’ above often receives several inches while I may get a sloppy mix, and my neighbor 300’ below is rain. All within adjacent property lines. Regarding fire danger, the state is forecasting “average”. I hope they are correct
  25. ValpoVike
    The models are interesting this weekend. As expected for late April, there is a massive gradient over a very short distance…with the euro at 10-12” across central Larimer and a couple of feet from the GFS. By eyeball, about 5 miles east and a couple of hundred feet in reduced elevation - rain.
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