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My @$#% rain gauge hasn't been working, have to go up and fix it. But all the PWSs around here got 3" of rain total Fri through Sat and given the buckets in our yard I don't doubt that a bit. We were up camping in Golden Gate Canyon getting soaked every time we were out of the tent, and pretty darn cold. We actually came home early for the first time in decades. Go figure. wow.

We actually got 1 inch hail Sunday afternoon when we were away along with 0.25" of rain. I came home to find a lot of tree junk all over the place and some melting hailstones that were still about 0.8 inches. Lots of spotter reports of 1" hail and one of 1.5". Then 103 today at my PWS. Yuck.

100.9 F for a high at my weather station on my roof today. 5-6 F higher than the official NWS reporting stations nearby, but 2 of the 3 PWSs nearest my house all also registered 100+ for a high. This is the first 100 since I installed it last September 6. This week has undone a good chunk of the nice wet cool weather we had over the past month and a half.

Bumping this up before it gets buried. I forget just how cold and rainy the first week of May tends to be here. The gloometer is about as high as it ever goes. 1.30" of rain from this event so far, though it's about done. Got some wet snow in the air this AM but never got below 36.

I think the new GFS, seeing that its predecessor was no longer with us, has decided it would imitate the old version and lose its mind. Last storm never got anywhere close to snowy and in fact we only got 0.60" precip.

Darn right. The dryness fed on itself last year with windy, somewhat hot days all through summer and dew points rivaling those on Mars. The early melt out didn't help, but things could have been mitigated by at least SOME wet thunderstorms... nope.

Today was like a lake effect snow day, cloudy and raw, with a good band with around 3 inches of snow just 7-8 miles north, but only flurries here. Not enough to measure at all.

3.7" last night, 4" last week, season total now up to 83.7". Pretty sure this is a top 2 season for me since 2010. I think we can about stick a fork in this one, having begun 7 1/2 months ago. I kind of hope. Bring on hail season

Roughly the same here. Bone dry all week till this afternoon then about 1.5” snow so far.

Wow that's wet!! My automated rain gauge is crappy with snow (undercounts like crazy) but guessing our precipitation since 9/1 is about 6". 76.0" snow, counting the bit in Sept and also the half inch last night.

Yeah, all the fruit tree blossoms have frozen 2 years in a row, might as well make it a 3rd...

What's your season total? Most years, Parker area (especially >6000) is a good 10-15 inches or more greater than DIA.

Yup, high here was 74 yesterday, low this AM was 24. More good moisture- was already starting to get pretty dry with the wind over the weekend. Soon we'll have to start the warm season thread.

Surprised by another 4.2 inches this morning- now 75.5" on the season and 34 inches for March!

Yup, fairly typical for many years to have 3/1 as the midway point. I had 41.5" pre-blizzard thanks to an early start, then 28.3" since, guessing we'll get about another 5-10" more to finish with a respectable 75-80" on the season. Average for me is about 55".

4 inches in 4 hours here, now a lull. Not bad.

so you're saying that were it not for the dust, Denver Metro might have had like 30"+? Wow. Me and my back think we're glad we didn't. You know, that would explain the <24" reports for like 10 miles each side of 25 but higher east as well as west. There's usually an east-west gradient that goes in one direction or the other. We have friends in SE Aurora that didn't measure but swore they got close to 30.

I got 22" using the 6 hour board clearing method, and I'm nestled right in the I25-I225-E470 nook, near APA. Highlands Ranch, 8 miles southwest, got 19.5" (not sure how measured). Both are in the light purple, so it tracks. Pretty sure DIA was the only one >27" among reports in the immediate Metro area within the 470/NW parkway "beltway". The real interesting thing is when I went for a walk today in Cherry Creek State Park, I expected to find that the snow had drifted as it usually does, with wind from the N or NE. But actually it looks from the drifts like the wind was 340-350 most of yesterday, which is not usually conducive to high snow amounts here.

21.2" for an almost-final. 35 hours since it began. Still snowing lightly off and on. Wish I didn't have a day full of Zoom meetings with East Coast people tomorrow!

Just came in from shoveling. 19.7” total. Running out of places to put it. I actually hope we’re about done! Also, several posters on weather5280 noted a reddish color in the first few inches of the storm from last night, and I did too- probably the snow that fell 12-8 AM today. There have been big dust storms in west Texas the past couple days. Could this have been ingested into the snow that made it all the way up and around to here?

A lot of those SNOTEL sites are pretty isolated, accessible only by dirt roads if by any road. Cool though.

Verifying for sure here. 7.7" new for a total of 11.5" and that was at 10:30. Shoveled, and probably have 2" more since then. Absolutely dumping, and windy. Thinking APA might be close to blizzard criteria, have to check. What a change!! Edit: If gusts >35 mph count, APA has had blizzard criteria for 5 straight hours. So, yes. Edit 2: Well, there we are. Blizzard warning for the I-25 corridor.

3.8" storm total here. Whoop-de-doo- looking for a reason the dry slot won't just keep rotating over us. All models all still have a foot plus to go- we'll see. This is worse than being a Red Sox fan in the 1990s.

But of course! Only time I've ever had to time measurements according to GMT. Geez. First 6-hr measurement=1.8 inches, though probably another inch since then. Steady accumulation now. Roads are officially slick in DTC.

?Parker looks like about 20" snow with about 2.0 QPF, about where it was 18 hours ago- so not bad really.