mayjawintastawm Posted December 3 Author Share Posted December 3 3.5" here at 10 AM. This has been a very typical light upslope storm, and also typical in that the foothills north and west of town got the most (so far), as opposed to south. Winds were a little more east than north. Really well predicted! Edit: 5.0" for a final at 8 PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted December 3 Share Posted December 3 Up to 6" here, still coming down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted December 3 Share Posted December 3 About 5" up here, pretty much aligning with the forecast yesterday. I did get to get my new plow out on the UTV to test it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finnster Posted December 3 Share Posted December 3 About 8" here in foothills NW of Fort Collins with good moisture content. A blessing indeed! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted December 3 Share Posted December 3 I got a nice push this afternoon. Probably 5" by the time it's done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted December 3 Share Posted December 3 Last few GFS runs have been really neat. We're breaking the color chart. Yesterday's 00z gfs actually gave W Yellowstone 100" lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted December 3 Author Share Posted December 3 6 minutes ago, Mercurial said: Last few GFS runs have been really neat. We're breaking the color chart. Yesterday's 00z gfs actually gave W Yellowstone 100" lol. Saw this and thought "GFS is hallucinating again", now I can't get that map and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" out of my head. Groovy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted December 4 Share Posted December 4 On 12/3/2025 at 10:09 PM, finnster said: About 8" here in foothills NW of Fort Collins with good moisture content. A blessing indeed! wow! The models never had 8" around Fort Collins for that storm New winter storm warning above 9000 ft today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Smith Posted December 5 Share Posted December 5 White rain gradually turned to powdery snow at 1.5" hour rates, ski resort locally is opening this weekend and saying wow, glad we didn't invest in snowmakers after all. ... 32 F, hills are nearly impassable locally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted December 6 Share Posted December 6 I don't think I've seen a Rocky Mountain single storm report with over 5 ft until now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted December 7 Share Posted December 7 Definitely some needed snow for the mountains. Too bad us high plains folks aren't going to see any snow any time soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted December 8 Author Share Posted December 8 Noting the drought severity and coverage slowly growing east of the Divide. We're now in D2 (roughly between Cherry Creek and the South Platte, and south of Denver proper). The next couple weeks don't look to help that at all. https://www.drought.gov/states/colorado Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted December 8 Share Posted December 8 4 hours ago, mayjawintastawm said: Noting the drought severity and coverage slowly growing east of the Divide. We're now in D2 (roughly between Cherry Creek and the South Platte, and south of Denver proper). The next couple weeks don't look to help that at all. https://www.drought.gov/states/colorado Meh, from watching those maps over the years, seems like we're in D1 or higher most the time. Nothing to really be concerned about until you get to D3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Smith Posted December 8 Share Posted December 8 Least favorite type of weather here, cold rain falling on snow and slowly turning it to slush. About 5" of snow on ground yesterday is now basically 3" of gloop. Not so bad above 4,000' so far, ski resort slopes are mostly up higher than that. Around 37 F at my elevation, mid-40s and mostly bare ground lower down in Columbia valley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted December 9 Share Posted December 9 85mph at Berthoud Pass and 79mph on lower ground Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted December 11 Share Posted December 11 On 12/9/2025 at 5:38 PM, Chinook said: 85mph at Berthoud Pass and 79mph on lower ground Yeah, it's been quite windy this week. Clocked 59 MPH on my Davis, but I am only at 7300'. The downslope has kept us quite warm too, with a low of 53 degrees this morning and a high of 59 so far today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted December 11 Share Posted December 11 Yep, raging Chinooks thanks to the Pacific firehouse that's been hitting the PNW. Hopefully this pattern doesn't persist too much longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Smith Posted Friday at 03:58 AM Share Posted Friday at 03:58 AM It was also quite mild up north here, near 50 F in the Columbia valley (Trail BC) where there is no snow at all, and 45F at my elevation where we still have a bit of snow cover, mostly frozen slush at this point. Driving down the hill into Trail it was evident that the snow line was just below 3,000' asl here. (at the border the valley is down around 1500' asl). It was almost jacket-free mild in the valley and you do see the odd person wearing shorts even in this ski resort area (making a statement of some kind, no doubt). A minor renewal of the major 2021 Fraser valley flood disaster is underway. The Nooksack River which drains the Mount Baker region into Puget Sound had a natural outflow channel before modern times through a flat area near Abbotsford BC known as the Sumas Prairie. There was a natural lake that was drained for intensive agriculture, and of course in very wet seasons that lake tries to fill up, and largely succeeded in Nov 2021. At this point, some water 2 or 3 feet deep has crossed the border, mostly overflow from the Nooksack although there are some tributaries of the Fraser that flood also. There is some infrastructure to channel these overflows into drainage canals that are then pumped over a low divide into the Fraser. In Nov 2021 the Fraser was also flooding so this failed leading to a very rapid inundation to a level of 10-15 feet in some areas. This potential has been known for decades and you would think massive infrastructure would have been built to deal with it, but for whatever reason we are stuck with the rather ineffective smaller scale plans that only work in moderately wet weather conditions. This is because our BC provincial politics seem to be based on a combination of salmon worship and endless talk about possible plans but not starting any of them for fear of offending the spirit of the wild bear. At least that's how it was explained to me at the Indoctrination Center. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted yesterday at 11:27 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:27 AM I forgot to mention this yesterday, but one of the Glacier National Park web cams had water drops, that is, rain. That is a result of such warm air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago I don't think I've seen much rain in Montana in winter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago we got all sorts of wind and fire out here! (probably not that much fire) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago 4 hours ago, Chinook said: we got all sorts of wind and fire out here! (probably not that much fire) According to the Watch Duty app, no new fires today so far. Fingers crossed. Up here it hasn't been too bad yet as my max gust has been 54mph. Cruising the nearby Estes-area Davis stations on WeatherLink, the max I can find is 60mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago Boulder probably had some trees down today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 9 minutes ago, Chinook said: Boulder probably had some trees down today Indeed, I found an 80mph gust in the last hour at the bottom of the canyon. Also, CDOT has closed 36 between Lyons and Boulder due to wind, which is probably a very wise move given the orientation and the fact that it hugs the base of the foothills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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