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So, climate… OND this year at DEN had a total of 0.53” of liquid and Dec is the second warmest since 1872. I still wonder about the validity of the #1 in 1933 as it was so much higher than any up to that point. Happy new year!

1.0" here. Nice and cold, pretty morning, roads awful as they should be.

Seems like if you bet on the driest model you can find 24 hours out from any given precip event, you'll do well 4 out of 5 times. Hopefully it will at least get cold, so my neighbor across the street who started a new lawn in September doesn't have to mow it on New Year's Eve.

All day I couldn't stop thinking "Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say..." as I wore shorts to the dog park.

DEN is now +11.2 degrees on the month, with just over a week left. Wow. #1 warmest December was in 1933, and we're closing in on that. It's notable that that year's December was over 3 degrees warmer than the existing record at the time. I don't know much about historical climatology in the area, other than the Dust Bowl followed from 1934-36 (yikes) and some measurements were unreliable. Anyone with more insight?

I've never seen one, anyplace, ever. Anyone else?

My rooftop PWS is also not high enough to register wind speeds accurately, but it was up to 33 MPH several times last night and in the past its readings are roughly 40-50% of what the nearby airport records so I can safely say we had 60 mph gusts, which are the highest recorded since we've lived here (15 years). Fortunately we had a lot of tree work done this year and no damage other than a holiday dinosaur in the front yard that broke into pieces. We have friends in Yuma County who were absolutely terrified by the fires last night, all sparked by downed power poles when the wind gusts topped 70 mph with the frontal passage around 9 PM last night. Fortunately, between farmers with tractors and disc plows and what other ground-based resources they had, they were able to contain all but one within a few hours. The threat isn't over yet, but neither do they have power yet.

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

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.

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.

Maybe we'll only get an inch, but it'll be plenty to cause a zillion accidents Wed morning. Everyone's brain fell out over the summer. Tires? What tires?

0.8" here! Buried. Just finished shoveling.

There were 1-2 a year or more ago, but haven't heard anything from them in a long time. Feel free to start a thread! Could be interesting, with atmospheric rivers etc. as opposed to the yawn of a fall/winter we're having in the Rockies so far.

Wild… NWS discussion and forecast doesn’t have the faintest hint (though officially it only goes through 11/30)

.07" here. A deluge, indeed.