Mountain West Discussion

[frontranger8]

DEN picked up 8.5" of snow yesterday, putting them at 21.2" on the season and officially out of contention for least snowy winter in Denver records. Though it would be lowest in the airport era if no more snow fell.

[Chinook]

This is pretty cool

[Chinook]

[smokeybandit]

 

 

[mayjawintastawm]

25 minutes ago, smokeybandit said:

 

 

Hope not. At this range, this is a little like the clown snow maps we get from time to time. If it weren't the EC and if we hadn't seen this pattern literally 80% of the time for the past 5 months, I'd shrug it off. 

[finnster]

On 3/10/2026 at 10:47 AM, smokeybandit said:

If the above March heatwave verifies (please NO), it likely will spell the end of any further snow on the front range and eastern plains this spring . 

 

 

 

[frontranger8]

Looks like a big cooldown and chance of some snow over the weekend now.

[ValpoVike]

CSU closed their campus this afternoon due to falling trees.  I have heard that someone was injured and a car damaged.   I clocked a high gust up here of only 47mph, but apparently FoCo had gusts over 60mph.

 

[ValpoVike]

21 hours ago, finnster said:

 

Fantasy-land, but the Euro and GFS are both showing a storm for the middle (Euro) to late (GFS) last week of the month.  I hate posting long range stuff but since the last storm was spied in the long range, I thought what the heck

 

[Chinook]

78mph wind gust in Fort Collins

[mayjawintastawm]

6 hours ago, ValpoVike said:

Fantasy-land, but the Euro and GFS are both showing a storm for the middle (Euro) to late (GFS) last week of the month.  I hate posting long range stuff but since the last storm was spied in the long range, I thought what the heck

 

Great. Though at this point, it's as likely to be a storm of lava as it is rain or snow. Maybe more likely.

[frontranger8]

Picked up 2.5" this am, over performer.

[ValpoVike]

It hasn’t been a terrible March up here. Sitting at 1.26” LE for the month. YTD is 1.74”, so yeah January and most of Feb was underwhelming. 

[smokeybandit]

Out of town but I think 2-3" from my cameras.

[finnster]

On 3/12/2026 at 6:48 PM, Chinook said:

78mph wind gust in Fort Collins

We live in the foothills west of Fort Collins and you can add about 5 mph to what Fort Collins had. It kinda tore up our trailer cover, that had previously survived fierce winds the past several years. Oh well the damage could have been worse - our house and trailer are still standing .

 

 

[finnster]

6 hours ago, ValpoVike said:

It hasn’t been a terrible March up here. Sitting at 1.26” LE for the month. YTD is 1.74”, so yeah January and most of Feb was underwhelming. 

Good to hear! We're in the foothills not too far from you as the crow flies. We've picked up some snow as well this month. Unfortunately every bit of moisture we get is quickly sucked up by the un-ending wind. I've lost track of the severe wind events we've had this past fall/winter; we've had our power knocked out 4 or 5 times. 

[ValpoVike]

1 hour ago, finnster said:

Good to hear! We're in the foothills not too far from you as the crow flies. We've picked up some snow as well this month. Unfortunately every bit of moisture we get is quickly sucked up by the un-ending wind. I've lost track of the severe wind events we've had this past fall/winter; we've had our power knocked out 4 or 5 times. 

Yeah it’s been windier in the foothills than usual for sure. I lost 3 large and mature trees in December, and a couple of weeks later I lost a portion of fencing. Looking forward to eventual calm weather.