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Up here in the Larimer foothills, I received about 3". A bit of a disappointment as I was hoping for 4-5, but still very welcome. This storm was however the "winter driving pipe cleaner"....the storm where people apparently have to re-learn how to drive on snow. Even with such light accumulation, Estes Park was overloaded with accident reports and 36 was closed due to numerous slide-offs.

Yeah same here. Took a vacation trip to Virgin Islands and missed our first snowfall. good to see snow though.

Here we go, it will eventually snow. Some snow starting to creep into the forecast for 10/24 for the Front Range, which is the system that the GFS sniffed out at 240h.

Yeah, it's crazy. Long's Peak did have some snow a couple of weeks ago, but it melted quickly. Up here at ~7300' daytime highs have been relatively normal, but we have not had a freeze at night either. Forecast shows 33 tomorrow/Sunday night though...so perhaps.

Still in fantasy-land, but the GFS thinks that it may be time to start up a winter thread in the last week of October.

Yeah, fall is happening!

Just a casual observer to the Tropical threads, but I have noted a sharp decrease in activity from ldub.

You should have gone to bed early last Monday, unfortunately. I bet you are looking forward to LE snow season though. I lived in Chardon for 8 years and I miss the insane dumps.

What, no view like this in Ohio? Wondering where this webcam is located though....perhaps somewhere in Wild Basin. It's a great perspective view.

Well, bummer! On the bright side - you may actually see snow in Ohio

It has been the second weird summer monsoon in a row....where up here we are hoping for only light rain, showers or storms have been coming several times a week, and the grasses are still green. While elsewhere outside of certain spots in the foothills could use as much rain as possible. The exact same thing happened last year.

Yes, thankfully. Up here we had a nice hour or two of light showers which had no impact on the burn scars.

I just logged .57” in 17 minutes. It was insane. I even had a mini landslide on my driveway.

The atmosphere is remarkably juicy this morning. My dewpoint is at 56 which is an oddity at this elevation. Today definitely has potential to be bad for those near or downstream from the burn scars.

It turns out that yesterday was indeed too much rain for the burn scars, especially the CP scar. Two people lost their lives in the Buckhorn area. In my neighborhood those along the Miller Fork were flooded.

So far, it has been a successful monsoon season in Central Larimer county. Today may be a bit too terrific for the burn scars, but we'll see...

Finally some sensible weather today. Sitting at 74 currently, while Saturday never achieved more than low 60s and I don’t believe it got out of the 50s on Sunday.the moisture has been very welcome though.

Radar estimates from NWS were 0.6" on the cell between GH and Poudre. This was over a drainage that was completely burned in CP, and last summer this amount of precip would have caused signicant flash flooding in my neighborhood. No impact at all from Friday's deluge, which is very good to see. Perhaps last year's aerial seeding is proving to be of benefit for the Poudre and GH/Drake areas where they got hammered with FF's during monsoon last summer...and especially on the Poudre where there was loss of life from a burn scar runoff event.

Wow, what an awesome lightning show last night. It started around sunset with intense lightning visible from up here down around Loveland, and then a cell popped between Glen Haven and the Poudre Canyon that lit up the sky at least until midnight when I finally fell asleep. I haven't had that much fun storm watching in a long time.

Is that Cameron Pass? All of the smoke, including smell, from Arizona yesterday had many up here on edge. It was nothing of course, but indeed a good reminder to those up in the mountains that summer is here and to be careful.

In Germany on a work trip, but wife sent pics of snow!!?? What the heck...

Crazy how fast it melts in May. A few years ago we received 44” on May 19th and by the end of the following day it was all gone and 75 degrees

It is a challenge to estimate this snowfall, but I think we likely received 16”. Although the most depth that I measured was 9.5”. Good accumulation Thursday overnight that melted…more on Friday that melted…and a very decent amount last night. I think my 6500’ call was busted. edit: my weather station logged 1.51” precip since Thursday.

I am around 5", but it has been holding there since about 8am. It seems like the rate of snowfall is matching the rate of melting.

Does anyone have access to Euro Kuchera data? It looks like GFS is around 12:1 ratio and I am interested in seeing what the Euro says. I think 12:1 is quite generous.