daddylonglegs Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 53F in Denver right now... Going to feel chilly if the -17F for early next week the Gfs is pumping out comes true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 18Z pumps out -22F next Tues... fasten those panties boys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 18Z pumps out -22F next Tues... fasten those panties boys. Here's the meteogram for Fort Collins-Loveland. Yikes! It says -27C or -16.7F for Monday at Midnight. Looks like we will have 4-10 inches. 14.4 mm = 0.567 inches. With a 20 to 1 snow ratio, this is 11.3 inches of snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 OK, so the Sun-Mon situation for the Denver Metro area looks to my untrained eye almost identical to the NYE situation.... except the commute Monday AM should stink. Watch for 5-10 inches, so I'll expect 3. Others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 6z GFS really pumps out a lot of precip for Denver.. Maybe a foot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salbers Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Here is our LAPS/WRF run (from the LAPS on-the-fly page): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 This is a somewhat unusual upper level setup- a 500mb low is in Montana, and at the moment it is 5340 meters, is going to continue to sit in Montana, with about the same 500mb height. At the same time, an 850mb low will develop at the Colorado mountains, and the arctic air will be on the move to the Front Range and northern Plains. A large amount of warm advection will be happening in Nebraska. I find it rather odd that an different shortwave will be tracking through Texas, beginning to create a snowstorm/ ice storm in the South while the Rockies/Plains storm is happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salbers Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Here's the latest snowfall forecast from the LAPS "On-the-fly" page (co domain): http://laps.noaa.gov/request/nph-laps.cgi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share Posted January 10, 2011 I have over 6" and still snowing lightly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I got 5 to 6" here IT'S SO FLUFFY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vandy Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Got about 10" here in Boulder. Didn't look too promising as of about 3PM yesterday, but we got some really good snow from late evening though the early part of the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 http://wxweb.meteostar.com/sample/sample.shtml?text=kden winter cancel after this...omg... talk about mild air ...should be at 50F by late week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Nice, fluffy 7.0" total IMBY. Drive to work wasn't horrible either. Finally, winter! Wish I was outside not inside today, despite the cold. Won't last long. At least our torches don't have heavy rain with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted January 11, 2011 Author Share Posted January 11, 2011 Down to 7 after a high of 14 today. DEN down to 6 after a high of 12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 last two mornings low temperatures FNL airport: Monday, -0.4, Tuesday -14.8 Fort Collins CSU: Monday 2, Tuesday -6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 Third straight very cold day here. 14/-2. Down to 2 already tonight. I doubt tomorrow gets above freezing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 Third straight very cold day here. 14/-2. Down to 2 already tonight. I doubt tomorrow gets above freezing. Another massive temp bust today...temps were supposed to reach the mid 30s, but instead topped out in the low 20s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 I'm jealous of you guys who live in Denver... You get snow one day, and then 50F the next... Not fair. I'll be lucky to see 50F by mid March. Plus you don't deal with the endless days of flurries and clouds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Yes, the sunshine factor makes the winter about 80% more encouraging than the winters in the East. Fort Collins hit a high of 29.7 yesterday, so that means the NWS forecast was not bad at all, from what I can remember. Bring on the next storm system.... some day.... a long time in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted January 17, 2011 Author Share Posted January 17, 2011 Yes, the sunshine factor makes the winter about 80% more encouraging than the winters in the East. Fort Collins hit a high of 29.7 yesterday, so that means the NWS forecast was not bad at all, from what I can remember. Bring on the next storm system.... some day.... a long time in the future. Looks like several chances for snowfall coming up now, starting on Wed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vandy Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 This little storm has really overperformed here in Boulder! We were predicted to get 1-3" like the rest of the metro area but so far we have 3-4" depending on where you are in town and it is still falling. My 15 minute bus ride home took an hour and 15 minutes, but I loved every bit of it. Got off the bus early and walked the last few blocks. It's great outside. All this in about 3 hours. How is everyone else here making out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 It snowed about a half inch in Fort Collins in an hour (or one and a half hours). Everyone remarked that the snow seemed to come out of nowhere. The temperature dropped 10 degrees after it started snowing. We had partly cloudy skies by sunset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Denver is calling for 60f on Friday... winter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Saw a couple of redwing blackbirds in Cherry Creek State Park last weekend. My wife is back with the relatives in Central MA for a conference this week. She slept through 12 inches of snow in 8 hours with thunder last night. Boy, am I jealous... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Here we go--- I am seeing the models calling for a long period of upslope snow. I believe the NWS forecasts will underestimate the cold temperatures, and we will get in the single digits to 14 or 15 degrees. I think Fort Collins can get 6+ inches out of this system coming up, due to fluffy snow, high snow ratios, and favorable upslope. Here's the 0z GFS from tonight, valid at 102 hours, which is Tuesday 06Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Some mid 60F's in Colorado today... KDEN showing 61F... I should have moved to Denver a decade ago.. Day late, dollar short Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 It's so warm, I am going to have to wear a T-shirt I see the NAM/WRF is forecasting a 1052 high at the border of Alberta and Saskatchewan in a few days.... it is going to be super cold in northern Wyoming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salbers Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 NWS has forecast high of -6 in Boulder on Tuesday - sounds like 1989 all over again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 Looking like the coldest weather in quite some time here tomorrow . A high below 0 is likely, which would be the first time that's happened in Denver in 14 years. Low temps on Tue night/Wed morning could also reach the -20s in parts of the metro area. The coldest I've seen since I moved here was -17 in Dec 2008. Denver's all-time coldest temperature for February is -25. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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