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I got a deck dusting overnight. Technically, first snow of the fall.

I’ll take it. Light but steady rain all day so far. Our area in Larimer county just can’t take a heavy rain event after so many this summer.

Woke up around 2’ish this morning to the sound of boulders crashing down the Miller Fork. Fortunately I live 300’ above the streams but many got flood damage.

You should try to watch a loop of the activity in Larimer county during the Ft Collins rain event. The dynamics and storm motions were interesting.

I am having concerns about heavy rain should storms fire as predicted today. My home weather station is showing a current dewpoint of 60, which is very unusual for my location.

Lookie at what happened today.

Estes Park fireworks got postponed to July 15. Not sure about other communities.

Dang, summer made it finally!

So 6 minutes delta due to latitude. The shift due to longitude within the respective time zone is big though especially if you like a late sunset. Coincidentally I was thinking quite a bit about that over the past week while on vacation in the USVI where sunrise was about 5:45am and sunset was about 6:48pm earlier this week…with total daylight of 13 hours, 3 minutes versus Fort Collins at 14 hours, 52 minutes. My mind often fixates a bit on such matters to the great annoyance of my wife. Here is a photo I took of one of the 6:48 sunsets

It was crazy smoky and on Friday. Visibility was down to about a mile up here, very similar to bad days during the CP fire but without the smell. That is remarkable given the distance to the fires in Canada.

Welcome!

Just light rain up here, and only .13" today so far. I wouldn't mind getting to 1", but we don't want it all at once due to burn scars in the neighborhood.

We had quite the lightning show to kickoff the spring/summer thread up here around 10pm last night, but it moved thru pretty quickly. Today is rather socked in with low ceilings and current temps in the 40's. BTW, did NWS Boulder get a new forecaster? The AFD this morning was rather colorful.

That’s about right. I am at 7310 and about 100’ above me got light accumulation. Around 8500 it looks like considerably more from what I can see today. Does anyone know how much rain fell north of DIA? It looked like some very slow movers in that area.

A big bust up here. My neighbor 100’ above me has about an inch on the ground. I have nothing but a wet deck. I have casually noticed that the Pinpoint Weather app from Fox31 has outperformed the WPC guidance all winter for my backyard. Strange and sad.

06z GFS actually puts the heaviest north and west of Denver bullseye on Larimer and Boulder. Euro likes Denver and loves the Palmer divide. Clearly someone is gonna get pasted edit: holy smokes look at the 06z GFS QPF, broad 3” with some crazy 4”+ amounts. NAM is trending similarly thru the end of its run.

Cool and happy you finally got some snow. Next week looks interesting, especially for the foothills. Both GFS and Euro show a dumping across the Boulder and Larimer foothills. The lower elevations may get a nice soaking. But we’ll see if it survives the next day or two…

Poof, gone.

Even more from the euro.

Awesome. I have no idea how much we got here as it would pour snow, stop for a bit, pour snow again…and with the temps fluctuating between 31 and 35 coupled with warm ground temps, I had fast melting.

I woke up to 40 degrees and it has since dropped to 32 with a nice moderate snowfall kicking in over the past half hour. The air feels juicy in that spring snowstorm way and winds have come around from the east. I have cautious optimism for the storm to produce decent amounts up here in the Larimer foothills. We’ll see…

WWA issued up here along with thunder. As is typical for April and May it looks like a fairly sharp gradient on accumulations.

The Euro is starting to give ground and given that the GFS was never really onboard, it is looking like this storm will be a non-event unfortunately.

Spring has finally arrived in the front range. I do love the winter, but I also really appreciate spring when it comes. We ended up with a couple of rounds in one day that added up to probably 8”, but the roads never became treacherous. Another great thing about spring…

I wasn’t expecting much but picked up 4.8” overnight.