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Quite a stark picture for eastern CO, even more remarkable considering that period is one of the driest climatologically. We have angered the gods. What did we do? What needs to be sacrificed?

Only good thing is I'm able to keep up my normal 3-season exercising - kind of like an extended, coldish Fall. I've been on my bike more since the Solstice than I have in any other year ever. This is getting really, really boring though.

Thanks Raindancewx! Always interesting food for thought. Trying to remember last season to figure out a calendar year 2019 snow total. I didn't write it down, just tallied it in my head... grr. I'm guessing we had somewhere around 80 inches of snow, with 41.0 since 10/1 (4.2 on 12/28). Not bad at all.

Snow and wind really picking up again here after 2.5" earlier today. Seems like there is upsloping from I-225 south to Monument, based on radar. I don't think it will last long but it's impressive right now.

Yeah, kind of interesting. NWS is now predicting a couple inches for the suburbs E of Denver and DIA, with more the farther east you go. I can't remember a storm quite like this in our 10 winters here, where something comes up from the south and west- it either has been a miss 100 miles east, or a bigger hit.

Back lurking back on the NE forum, as CO has become a December desert and boring as all hell. Anyone remember waaay back in around 1982 when we had "computer models" that predicted a last minute bomb and NWS BOX to issue short-fuse winter storm warnings about 11 PM on Christmas Eve? The Weather Channel had a scrolling red screen, and my high school self got all excited, till the next morning when we realized it was all just a computer-generated dream.

Good morning! 9 hours, 9 inches down here, storm total 9.3 so far as of 6 AM. Guessing 15:1 ratio based on shovel weight. I bet some places between Boulder and Estes Park are closing in on 25".

Greetings from the dry slot. Congrats to those in Longmont/Broomfield and points north! Loveland and FoCo were shafted so many times the past year... now it's your turn. We'll get into it, eventually, I hope.

I know, right?! When I was in SNE it would have stupid high amounts, and here in CO it lives up to its name: the No Accumulation Model.

OK, just as things were getting consistent with around a foot of snow for Denver metro, some models are pulling the plug less than 12 hours before things start, especially in my neck of the woods. WTF?? I can look at GFS, NAM and HRRR. GFS is backing off some (6-9 inches); NAM backing off a bit more (like 5-7), and HRRR keeps the Metro area completely dry through midnight while whacking Fort Collins with over an inch of precip. Jeesh.

We got a surprise 2.5" at least, maybe a hair more. Not expected! Good moisture and the commute home will be fine, just as we like it. 23" on the season to date. I think this is the most pre-Thanksgiving snow we've had since we moved here in 2010.

We got 7.5" from round 2, more than half of which fell 6 AM-9 AM yesterday. Low of +6 F this AM. With 5" from round 1, and 7" total from the other two snows, we have 19.5" total for October. Never, ever thought I'd be posting this a month ago!!

5" total on my snow board, with a bit over 3" overnight, assuming this round is done. There are spots on my very slow greased-road commute to Aurora that look over 6". Even though there was little wind, there was probably some drifting in spots because it was so fluffy.

Kind of busting here so far... 2" of light fluff you can blow off your car with your breath. QPF from the NWS went from 0.5" 24 hours ago to around 0.25", and I think we'll be lucky to get 0.2". Maybe the second round on Tues-Wed will be better.

Seems like we skipped Sept and Oct and went right from August to November.

Yup, other than the fact that all outdoor plants including trees look like they were blasted by a death ray, you can't tell that anything is too different from the way it was last Wednesday. The trees went from green to gray, skipping all the colors in between. Yuck.

I think now would be good. BTW, we got 3.5 inches of snow today, more than I expected. Density was very low for October!

Was 74 here at 5:50 PM after a high of 82, then the brown gust front came through, dropping the temp 20 degrees in 50 minutes. 34 by 9:45 and a brisk 22 this AM. Snow is starting to stick.

"I've seen fire, and I've seen snow... I've seen tornadoes and some hail like you'd never know... I've seen blizzards, heat, and drought that never ends... So I know that I'm in Colorado again." - cue the tomatoes..... (huge apologies to JT but couldn't resist)

Missed it by that much. Sept turned out to average 69.3 degrees, thanks to a slightly cooler than predicted low temp the last couple days of the month, with the old record of 69.4. Of note, however, is that the 2nd warmest Sept came right after the 3rd warmest August. I don't know where to look, but I'd bet that was the warmest Jul-Aug combination on record.

wow! On another note, looks like Denver will set an all time #1 warmest September if forecast temps hold. Previous record was +6.0 in 2015, we're headed for about +6.1 or 6.2. And Centennial, near where I live, only has records going back a few decades, but is now at +8.1 for the month. Bone dry too.

Well... it's Wyoming. Beautiful, very isolated outside of the few big towns (some would say very isolated, period), and one of the coldest places in the lower 48 in the winter. Much drier than you've experienced. The dilemma is that you want to find the "sweet spot" where there are just enough people to have jobs and other resources, but affordable (i.e. not Jackson Hole). These places do exist, you just have to look around some. Same issues with rural poverty that you'd find back East, tempered somewhat by the oil and gas situation.

Nope. (taking a tongue in cheek cue from the Northeast forums, the one word post :))

We finally got enough rain (I'm guessing 0.7") to keep the sprinklers off today. Feels better. Need more!

Thanks Don for chiming in on the Mtn West page... Out of curiosity I looked at Denver's climate pages for September today. Records have been kept for 148 years. We moved to CO in August 2010. Of the 30 daily record highs in September, 14 have been set since we moved here. That is COMPLETELY nuts. And the expected cold front will cool temperatures dramatically. To just a few degrees above normal. Wake me up when September ends.