daddylonglegs Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Crazy... crazy... what goes up must come dowN? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 The GFS says -54 for Winter Park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 -53F http://wxweb.meteostar.com/sample/sample.shtml?text=kgnb Seems a little low Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted February 1, 2011 Author Share Posted February 1, 2011 I have to think that quite a few places have a shot at breaking their February records for cold tonight. I wonder what the coldest February temperature on record for Colorado is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Maybell, Colorado -61 Feb 1, 1985 ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted February 1, 2011 Author Share Posted February 1, 2011 Maybell, Colorado -61 Feb 1, 1985 ??? Ah, right, I believe that's also the all-time cold record for the state. A spot or two up in the sheltered mountain valleys could approach -50 tonight. I'm guessing DEN will bottom out in the -20 to -23 range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vandy Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Hit 0F for the high today here in Boulder. Absolutely loving it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 -37F so far... Think we could see a -50F ...would be nice... http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=MWRDC2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 -37F so far... Think we could see a -50F ...would be nice... http://www.wundergro...y.asp?ID=MWRDC2 Just got back from a run. -16F here. Wunderground says -54F in Steamboat. Chilly!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 Looks like Laramie, WY got down to at least -38, which would tie the Feb record for the modern location. DEN *only* got down to -17. Probably would have helped if there was more substantial snowcover, instead of just the inch or so they have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Low Temperature. Note: 25.13 inches of Mercury... so high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 After briefly being above 0 from 12-5 today...back down to -1. I'm glad it's not like this all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 ...especially considering it's Feb. 2!!! This morning, the low temp hit 1F (34 degrees below normal)...this absolutely destorys the previous Feb. 3 record low of 16F, set in 1982. Just incredible... AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 250 AM MST THU FEB 3 2011 .SYNOPSIS... RECORD BREAKING COLD TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE REGION. EL PASO SET NEW RECORD LOWS BOTH YESTERDAY AND THIS MORNING. YESTERDAY`S HIGH TEMPERATURE IN EL PASO WAS THE COLDEST HIGH FOR ANY DAY EVER IN OVER 120 YEARS OF RECORD KEEPING. THE HIGH WAS ONLY 17 DEGREES. THE REGION WILL STAY WELL BELOW FREEZING AGAIN TODAY AND ALMOST 40 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. HOWEVER THE THREAT FOR MORE SNOW IS OVER AND SKIES WILL BEGIN TO CLEAR ACROSS THE REGION AS THE UPPER STORM DEPARTS. TONIGHT WILL BE DANGEROUSLY COLD AGAIN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beavis1729 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Looks like Laramie, WY got down to at least -38, which would tie the Feb record for the modern location. DEN *only* got down to -17. Probably would have helped if there was more substantial snowcover, instead of just the inch or so they have. Laramie actually hit -39 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 One warmish day tomorrow, then back into the ice box for at least the next 5 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Looking at Rapid City...They went down to -20F on Feb 2nd and were back to 48F on Feb 4th... Crazy climate over there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 Looks like another 4-8" tonight/tomorrow, with below 0 temps again tomorrow night. Making up for the terrible Oct-Dec period now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Msalgado Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 So in the 11 months I've lived in Santa Fe we've managed to hit the all time high of 100 degrees and the all time low of -18 last Thursday. Crazy weather. Calling for another 8 inches of snow here tomorrow. The cold last week pretty much killed the entire state and shut it down completely so I'm hoping we handle this next storm better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Not to look a gift snowfall in the mouth, and it does look pretty, like real winter (finally!), but here's a question: Do we ever get real live synoptic snow here, related to a low pressure area as opposed to little post-frontal upslope events and upper-level troughs and mesoscale tidbits? I know the answer is yes, it just seems like there hasn't been a single nice wound-up storm since I moved here last summer. Yawn. Maybe Spring will bring one. Maybe I need to go chase tornadoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Not to look a gift snowfall in the mouth, and it does look pretty, like real winter (finally!), but here's a question: Do we ever get real live synoptic snow here, related to a low pressure area as opposed to little post-frontal upslope events and upper-level troughs and mesoscale tidbits? I know the answer is yes, it just seems like there hasn't been a single nice wound-up storm since I moved here last summer. Yawn. Maybe Spring will bring one. Maybe I need to go chase tornadoes. Define low pressure. Do you mean when surface low/850 low stalls in southeast Colorado? That sounds reasonable. Forecasters look for 700mb winds out of the east or northeast for a "good" snow event. The 12z GFS is predicting 10 knot northerly, then 10 knot NE , then 5 knot NE, then 5 knot northerly at 700mb. That is OK but it's too much northerly components for getting over 8" at our elevation. If the 700mb winds are westerly, we get really light snow or none at all. It's best if the 700mb winds continue easterly for a while, and the band of precipitation doesn't shift down to Colorado Springs too fast. Sometimes these fronts make the band of precipitation shift southward quickly. My web site about Front Range snowstorms http://fortcollins.s...sSnowstorms.htm look at these examples of moderate storms 12/27/2007 http://www.spc.noaa....0_071227_12.gif 3/27/2009 http://www.spc.noaa....0_090327_00.gif 11/15/2009 http://www.spc.noaa....0_091115_00.gif 12/06/2009 http://www.spc.noaa....0_091206_12.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 The front just came through and the wind gusts were 30mph from the north. The temp. dropped from 30 to 18 in one hour and 35 minutes. This sort of temperature jump and gusty winds are almost never predicted exactly by the models or the NWS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Check out the front from the NCAR plots at Boulder.http://www.eol.ucar....a&units=english Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Those wind gusts are a little more impressive. Fort Collins had a max gust 34.9mph outside the city limits,. Fort Collins- Loveland airport : North 23 knots gusting to 38 knots, so that is about the same at NCAR Foothills. NCAR Foothills is in a residential/commercial area, so typically winds wouldn't be 37-38mph, that's very high for a residential area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Those wind gusts are a little more impressive. Fort Collins had a max gust 34.9mph outside the city limits,. Fort Collins- Loveland airport : North 23 knots gusting to 38 knots, so that is about the same at NCAR Foothills. NCAR Foothills is in a residential/commercial area, so typically winds wouldn't be 37-38mph, that's very high for a residential area. Here is the MESA site location--even more impressive winds. http://www.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/weather.cgi?site=ml&period=5-minute&fields=tdry&fields=rh&fields=cpres0&fields=wspd&fields=wdir&fields=raina&units=english Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 The Mesa location is at 6100 feet outside the main part of the city, at the foot of the Flatirons. They get 60mph wind gusts several times per year. It's a very windy spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 Not to look a gift snowfall in the mouth, and it does look pretty, like real winter (finally!), but here's a question: Do we ever get real live synoptic snow here, related to a low pressure area as opposed to little post-frontal upslope events and upper-level troughs and mesoscale tidbits? I know the answer is yes, it just seems like there hasn't been a single nice wound-up storm since I moved here last summer. Yawn. Maybe Spring will bring one. Maybe I need to go chase tornadoes. There have been a bunch of large winter storms just like you described since I moved here in 2006: Dec 2006 (2), Jan 2007, March 2009, Oct 2009, Mar 2010. These are just the bigger ones, as all of these storms brought 10"+. The biggest were Dec 2006 (27"), Mar 2009 (16"), and Oct 2009 (20"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Define low pressure. Do you mean when surface low/850 low stalls in southeast Colorado? That sounds reasonable. Very cool. Thanks. I guess I'm used to systems having some sort of body of water or other big energy source to feed off. It seems also like we've had a northwest upper level flow roughly forever, precluding much of a low from forming, or if there is one, it trucks out of town pretty fast. - MWS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowtrain Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Anywhere to go for some Wasatch discos? I am heading to Parl City the week of the 22nd and I am looking for some quality info for snow chances during that period. Any guidance as to where in these forums to look? Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoelGratz Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Anywhere to go for some Wasatch discos? I am heading to Parl City the week of the 22nd and I am looking for some quality info for snow chances during that period. Any guidance as to where in these forums to look? Many thanks! www.utahskiweather.com is a good resource, run by grad students at the University of Utah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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