finnster

Good to hear 9.5” is a good amount of snow!

Not a bust where I’m at in the foothills SW of Bellvue (above Horsetooth Res). Between 11-12” total from this storm and happy to see it. I'm estimating 65”+ 8at our place so far this season - a lot of it in October & November (30” from the big storm before Thanksgiving). After a very dry January I say keep it coming

I’m a recovering weatherholic myself and I definitely agree with you, this has been one boring winter so far. I’ve been in Colorado a long time. To give some perspective, IMHO the 1970’s and 80’s were in another league when it comes to cold and snow on the front range (just peruse the weather records for Denver back then). The 1990’s were less so, and since about 2000 cold and snowy winters have far and few between. If you believe in longer term weather cycles/patterns repeating (I do), a pattern more reminiscent of the ‘70s and ‘80s could return. But if and when - nobody truly knows.

Thanks for the post!

Good morning all. I have mainly stayed away from weather forums since this exceedingly, boringly stretch of weather started in December (after a great Oct|Nov pattern). Hard to believe after such a great fall that every storm now misses the front range. Thankfully our mountains are getting regular, albeit smaller, storms. I’m just interested in any explanations as to how/why the pattern changed so drastically for the front range, and the prospects to get back to some semblance of stormiest in the weeks and months ahead? BTW I was about to suggest we cancel the winter thread and move to a spring thread, but I don’t want to over-react....

Good to hear - whatever the exact measurement is it sounds like you got a good rain. Here in northern Colorado we can't buy a good rain now. At my location northwest of Fort Collins we're currently at 70 days without any significant precip. We seem to be too far north, too far south, too far east, or too far west to catch any storm that comes along. We've run out of directions to miss storms from