frontranger8

Picked up 2.5" this am, over performer.

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

Here's some other locations with long term records. All of these have far less UHI than Phoenix, SLC, or Vegas. Santa Fe: 4 (but missing a ton of years prior to 1997) Roswell: 5 Las Vegas, NM: 3 Gallup, NM: 4 (records only back to 1973) Mesa Verde NP: 2 Imperial, CA: 3 Barstow, CA: 5 Blythe, CA: 2 Winslow, AZ: 5 Prescott, AZ: 3 The mean is around 3-4. Clearly Phoenix's 7 is an outlier, as asserted.

Flagstaff had some very hot summers in the late 1800s: https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?az3010 It's very possible that their was a thermometer is those summers, though 1898 in particular was hot throughout the region. But those are the official records for Flagstaff per the WRCC.

And again, over the same period Flagstaff has experienced 2 record warm months to Phoenix's 7. Yes, the Southwest has been warming faster than most places recently. And yes also, Phoenix is an extreme outlier in this trend. Yet it's always the one place pointed out on here with all the records.

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.

Wow, snow is just banding over your area now. Bet you end up with at least 8". Long live March!

About 3" here with .35" of liquid precip so far...very wet. Snow has been falling at 33 degrees all afternoon.

Hoping...

Picked up .08" of rain today. First precip in awhile...hopefully more later this week.

Looks like we'll be lucky to see a half inch tomorrow...but you never know.

Some models are saying a little snow for Denver metro coming up, especially southern portions.

Models are showing a nice little burst of snow during Broncos game today. Nothing like what they're seeing in New England, but could make things a little more interesting.

That said, I think the south metro like Castle Rock and Parker may do ok tonight.

At the same time, Juneau hits -10, equalling coldest temp since the 1970s. And: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-energy-blackouts-extreme-cold-9.7026976 These things aren't one way.