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A surprisingly good snow event ongoing up here. I didn't expect any accumulations at all today, but close to 3" over the past 1.5 hours. This is really good to see up here in the Larimer County foothills. Edit- at 6” now this is so good to see

My concern is growing for the summer wildfire season. March/April are not panning out how we need it. Let's hope for an increase late month, or a super good Monsoon...

You should read this morning's AFD. Lot's of "extreme" mentions...disappeared this afternoon

April and early May can bring some big snow…

I am in N California this week at Redwoods NP. Some rain but not as much as I expected to see. That fire was pretty close to my home. Sad to see so many wildfires over the past few days.

I landed at 11am at DIA, and my Jeep had more snow on it than it has had all year long. Was great to see, and the best part was that the roads were only wet.

Joy, another 3" snow up here from this last "storm". I wish I had been adding this up but have been too busy. Literally every single snow has been in the 3" range for the past couple of months. I wouldn't be surprised if I have racked up 24" or so in these series of events. We are heading into big dump season, so hopefully this changes thru April.

It looks to be a pretty healthy series of storms over the next 7 days, right on queue for March. The longer range seems rather bullish as well, and it looks like the trend is there...thankfully.

Sorry to hear that. From your reports, it sounds like a dreaded screw hole has cursed you this season.

Man, I will say without any hesitation that it is indeed cold as hell in the Chicago area for my liking. I will concede that it is not forever lasting like perhaps Minneapolis, but I remember very vividly about 12 years ago when it was -30 one morning in Valpo and the entire week wasn't much better. About 9 years ago I recall -23 and many burst pipes in a region that actually designs homes to withstand frosted pipes. That is crazy cold, and I even did the "throw the boiling water into the air" trick with my kids I personally like both snow season and summer. Note that I didn't say winter because up where I live, we can get 3' or greater snowfall in mid-May and the next day hit 70 degrees. Gotta love that! But my personal favorite is Monsoon season and watching lightning filled anvils form over the plains. It is an amazing sight from the perspective of my elevation. Regarding Currier and Ives, we kind of have that. However, it is highly subject to where your house is situated. My house is on a south facing slope and snow melts very quickly due to the sun. But literally my actual neighbor, 300' below me, is on the river and shaded by a mountain and he has had constant snow cover on his property since mid-December. Even with temps around 50 it doesn't melt much until the sun hits it. He'll be back in the sun sometime in March.

Well, Colorado isn't Chicago and our winters feature snow with cold (but reasonable) temperatures. It's what you're used to and of course a matter of personal preference. I left NW Indiana 7 years ago and never looked back, largely due to the long stretches of sub-zero cold and the relentless cloud cover. But I digress.

Yeah looks good...and it's right on track with March around the corner.

I hope so. Last week I thought the 3" limit would finally be breached up here...I ended up with 2". This looks a tad more promising. I did read yesterday in the Denver Post that Denver has had it's snowiest start on record since the New Year. Can this really be true?

I may finally break the streak of 3" snows. Jinxed it, I'm sure.

My assumption has been that out further west they had a really good early season with some huge storms. Would be interesting to see the seasonal data, as I predict that it may be opposite....out west looking ok, but along the front range we would be pretty far behind.

Only about 4" up here. We have seen quite a few 3"-4" snows here this season, but yet to see a true dump.

It is trending up again. NWS Boulder also had a nice write up in this morning’s AFD on the case for high snow ratios.

I kind of doubt the northern amounts, but the models are all pretty close on a decent hit for foothills and palmer.

Wow, it is really slick out there. At least it is up here, but I am also reading that areas adjacent to the foothills have a coating.

I don't know about you, but my best memories as a kid (and later with my kids) mostly involve big snow events.

Exactly my thoughts last night looking at radar. The presentation reminded me of my years in Geauga county Ohio and the lake effect bands. However, the banding gods did not smile upon us here, with a meager 3". I'll take it though. Hopefully the areas east of the foothills got more as they need it much, much more....

18z NAM ramped up the snow for Fort Collins, now over 8". A pretty sizeable increase over the 12z run. Cheyenne get's buried. Larimer foothills look to be in a snow hole, wedged between good amounts in both the mountains and the flatlands.

12z doubled down on the nuttiness. QPF is now up to 0.7" in the Ft Collins to Cheyenne area....and now showing over 16" snow for Ft Collins, so it is staying with it's very high ratios. Meanwhile the Euro only shows 0.3" QPF.

Radar is filling in nicely as the upslope kicks in. Definitely feels like a solid snow setting up as banding is also evident and started a few hours ago with the band that roughly set up from Boulder to Greeley.

I hope I don't jinx it, but some impressive accumulations on the models and the NWS forecasts for areas west of I25. Including the snow-cursed city of Ft Collins.