ConiferMtnMan

On 10/28/2018 at 8:35 PM, Chinook said:

Tuesday night to Wednesday mid-day, there should be rain changing to snow for lower elevations near here. The snow forecast may be tricky from Denver/Boulder southward to Trinidad/Raton NM. Some areas under 6000 ft. could get over 6" of snow, but I think it will be less than that for downtown Denver, and also near me. The GFS/NAM show temps of 35 with snow falling on Wednesday morning in the cities.

 Synoptically, it's mostly just a cold front with convergence at the Rocky Mountains, nothing very unusual.

 

We ended up with ~6” at 8400’ sw of Denver. Was expecting a bit more, but was happy enough with the result. Unfortunately, this is the time of year when I leave for work in the dark and get home in the dark, so I have no pictures to share. I’ll definitely share whenever we have a weekend snow.

We had some hail last night with overnight temps right around freezing. Ground was white with hail in some places on the drive in to work this morning.

Looking like a few inches here in Conifer this week. With any luck this will be our last accumulating snowfall of the season and we can roll into a summertime pattern.

As an outsider looking in, I want to say thanks for this awesome thread! I grew up in the TN valley, but now I live at 8,500' in Colorado. The season is super short here (late June through early September last year), so I live vicariously through you guys until Independence Day when my garden begins to sprout. Keep it up!