mayjawintastawm Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Interesting. Will be fun, and good for the gardens (if not the mother's Day festivities) in any case. In the shorter term, though, the forecast is even more remarkable, predicting that parts of the area will just, well, disappear... The afternoon BOU AFD FOR FRIDAY...INCREASING MID AND HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE IN THE MORNINGFOR SOME MOUNTAIN WAVE CLOUDS AND SOME GUSTY WINDS OVER EASTSLOPES. CONTINUED DRYING AND WARMER ON FRIDAY AS TEMPERATURES RISEINTO THE MID AND UPPER 60S OVER THE PLAINS. THERE WILL STILL BESOME SHOWERS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND HIGHER TERRAIN BUT LOOKS TOO DRYAND STABLE OVER MUCH OF THE PLAINS. HAVE REMOVED MOST OF THEPLAINS FROM THE PLAINS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 8, 2014 Author Share Posted May 8, 2014 Perhaps they have replaced flatland with mountains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConiferMtnMan Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Parts of the south metro are now under a winter storm watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boulderrr Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Looks like we're going to get BURIED in Nederland: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 9, 2014 Author Share Posted May 9, 2014 Now the Winter Storm Watch extends to all the cities north of the Palmer Divide, over to western Weld County, Adams County, and Arapahoe County. The 06z NAM has about 16" south of Denver on the Palmer Divide, and 36" for Rocky Mountain National Park. I think that's a little high. 700mb and 850mb for Sunday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 10, 2014 Author Share Posted May 10, 2014 some of the models (such as some of the NAM runs) have gone way high for Larimer County and the Cheyenne area. This 4km NAM run says 24"-30" for Larimer Co, Medicine Bow, Laramie Range (w of Cheyenne) and Park Range (Steamboat) and in fact even 8-10" for my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Winter Storm Warning with 4-9" expected here. Could easily be more if some models verify, though. The 12.2" Boulder saw last May was the most since 1978 and only the 3rd May since 1950 with more than 7" of snow. Looking pretty likely they could see back to back Mays with more than that, pretty remarkable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Snow sticking to the grass now with temp down to 31 F at 5670 ft, snow board is on the ground now... we'll see how it goes! Most at lower elevations I could find so far was around 3" up north of town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 11, 2014 Author Share Posted May 11, 2014 We have about 1" of snow sticking to the grass. The roads are starting to get very wet and slushy. I noticed that many flakes are large needles or clumps of needles. We may have 1/2 mile visibility here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 1.5" so far here. Roads still mostly just wet, but it's not snowing hard right now, just moderately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 11, 2014 Author Share Posted May 11, 2014 We are still getting light to moderate snow. I reported 3.1" to the NWS. There is probably more than 3.1" on elevated surfaces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 6-hr total just 1.2" here but lots of melting the past 2 hours. Max may have been as much as 1.5". Bands of moderate snow interspersed with periods of nothing, every half hour or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Just another 0.3" snow in past 5 hours. 0.33" liquid at APA for the whole event. Winds have been from the NW rather than NE most of the afternoon into the evening. Where's the upslope?? Unless something new materializes, this is looking like yet another bust for all but the foothills and mountains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Enough to not quite bust overnight, with the second round delivering 4.0" for a total of 5.5" here, 0.52" liquid (at APA). One report I saw from Larimer County had 29 inches- impressive. Still snowing lightly, 30 F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 I measured 4" in the yard (away from the tree) at about 5:00PM. I measured 6.9" in the yard this morning, and also I cleared about 5" off my car. I think we may have had a storm total of 8-10" with melting and compaction. (4"+5" =9" cleared off the car) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Met1985 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 I measured 4" in the yard (away from the tree) at about 5:00PM. I measured 6.9" in the yard this morning, and also I cleared about 5" off my car. I think we may have had a storm total of 8-10" with melting and compaction. (4"+5" =9" cleared off the car) Man would love to be out west right know in this late season snow storm. Post some pics would love to see the snow out there and enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 Cheyenne WY--24 hour snow total (midnight to midnight) -------- SNOWFALL (IN) YESTERDAY 10.5 R 5.9 2010 0.1 10.4 0.0 MONTH TO DATE 11.4 1.4 10.0 4.3 SINCE JUL 1 90.1 59.4 30.7 87.1 SNOW DEPTH 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 some snow reports (1351z). Note the icon that says 18" near Pingree Park, there was actually a report of 28". They just don't have icons for 28" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 You can see the general values were about 1" before 7am Sunday and 5-6" for 7am Monday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 as of yesterday afternoon, this tree didn't have any snow sticking to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 FTG storm total precip. Haven't posted an image of storm total precip in about 9 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 In the previous thread, I posted "That brings me up to 36.2" for the season." I think I have had 0.5", 2", and 2" since then making it 40.7" for the season. Cheyenne is up in the 60-65 inch range. 40.7"+3.2" (April 13th) +6.9" (May 11-12) = 50.8" for the season at my place. Maybe a little more Since I have lived in Colorado (2006-2007) the average seasonal snow has been 52.7" at Fort Collins, with monthly averages as follows: 5.7" in October 4.8" in November 14.0" in December 5.7" in January 7.9" in February 7.1" in March 5.6" in April 3.1" in May some of these are significantly different from the 1981-2010 averages. Amazingly, May has been almost as snowy as November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Storm total of probably 6" here, though never more than 4" on the ground with melting. Still pretty impressive for mid May. Decent chance DEN sees their coldest low ever this late in the spring tonight. Projected low is in the mid 20s. All it will take is a low below 28. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 13, 2014 Author Share Posted May 13, 2014 Cheyenne got 12.0" on their official climate reports of the last 2 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluggerWx Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 SevereWx IMBY, Chinook for Wed/Thurs. Should be interesting. Could be Denver's first brush with SevereWx in quite some time. Was planning a chase trip for end of May in OKC area, might not need the trip anymore. Sent from my RM-927_nam_vzw_100 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Since last year, anyway, I guess... we had brief 1" hail twice at our house last June. I don't know what the skylights are rated for, hope it's more than that! So far nothing's cooking, we'll see later. Winds are all upslope right now all along the Front Range so no "Denver cyclone"/convergence zone yet. Sky looks very stable when I peek outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConiferMtnMan Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Since last year, anyway, I guess... we had brief 1" hail twice at our house last June. I don't know what the skylights are rated for, hope it's more than that! So far nothing's cooking, we'll see later. Winds are all upslope right now all along the Front Range so no "Denver cyclone"/convergence zone yet. Sky looks very stable when I peek outside. Well that changed pretty quick! Big storms on the SW and NE sides of Denver now. Have some friends up in Evergreen that reported hail with the storm that moved through there a while ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 hailstorms over denver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Uh, yeah, what a difference 2 hours makes?!? My wife just texted me with a picture of 1.5" hail covering the ground near Colorado and Yale. Didn't take much to get this fired up. Should have taken my 16 year old car which is in the garage instead of her new one... figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 denver area tornado warning. they mentioned that a wall cloud was seen by spotters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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