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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.

We actually talked about this a bit a few months ago with long term data- over the long term, a clear signal around the Front Range for more likely warmer year over year, but very inconsistent with overall moisture even though it does seem like every storm ends up drier than forecast, and there is a trend for warmer and drier Oct-Nov. A disproportionate number of the top 10 or so records that involve warm temps have been in the last 20 years, but other than being more variable, there aren't any real precip trends.

So... any thoughts on the Thursday/Friday precip event? Looks weird, more like a Spring type event with temps and upslope. With the recent warmth, might not be that impactful. But worth talking about since we've not had much to discuss in a long time.

actually good point. Classic La Nina half-a-winter. My seasonal total was 45.9" which is not too much less than my average of about 55". But it didn't really start till January.

And in fact I'm flying out Tuesday and returning Friday morning... well...

2021 was a complete non-winter. Hope this year doesn't replicate that.