ValpoVike

My low was -10 this morning as well.

Useless but interesting fact - My wife is visiting family in Wasilla, Alaska this weekend, and currently it is 30 degrees warmer than my current temp of 7.

It's going to get cold for sure. Interestingly, I have noted over the past several years that January 10th-17th almost always features extreme cold for the front range. Last year it was on January 13th, with -19 recorded here. I don't have specifics for other years logged for my location, but I did start a log last year. It will be interesting to see in a few years how it holds up.

I took this while hiking the Twin Owls trail in RMNP today. One of the best days for lenticulars in quite some time.

Several days ago I just couldn’t believe the QPF that the euro was showing. It looks like it largely nailed it…but having only scored about 3” up here, I am indeed rather jealous.

Crazy amounts for sure, but the trend does seem to be pretty strong directionally for good moisture over the next 10-14 days.

I picked up about 1.5" yesterday, with most coming in the evening. Not much, but I'll take it...with an eye on early next week to add.

I think we may need a cold season thread starting on Tuesday.

It was very visible to the naked eye. Yesterday it was at mag 1.5, and I believe this evening it will be 2.5. For sure a bit dimmer this evening and there is a lot of smoke up here, so I don’t have my hopes up too much for a spectacular encore.

Another crisp evening, with a celestial bonus.

It appears that I will land at 2.97" for August. For my location, it was a productive and nearly perfect monsoon with almost daily rains coming in roughly .1" increments with a couple of of .5" days. More broadly, it did seem to be a mixed bag for August with KDEN logging just under an inch for the month.

Sweet!!!

Yeah, and all of this monsoonal moisture is coming just in time:

Yeah, totally socked in up here all day long in the fog. A very fall-like 55 currently.

We picked up .6” of rain today here on the western edge of the Alexander fire. It was a steady and gentle soaking too.