Coach McGuirk Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 getting late in the season for 6-10, but I would be on the bus. Enoy it local posters. Oh yeah, I doubt 6-10 too. Ground is too warm and it's only going to be marginally cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardWx Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Oh yeah, I doubt 6-10 too. Ground is too warm and it's only going to be marginally cold. I don't buy it, but for the sake of reporting the latest HRRR model is going almost 18" in a few spots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 I am getting ready to see some snow, I guess. Temps are dropping into the 30's. Cheyenne to the Black Hills (all sections in between) has changed over to snow. about 37 degrees here. It's kind of unbelievable. It should be 70 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cxc292 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 All snow here in centennial. Started accumulating about an hour ago. Had no problem sticking even on the side roads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach McGuirk Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Sweet, post pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cxc292 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 I've never seen snow this late into spring. Just moved from Philly in the last year. Pretty neat. Edit, pic is too big to upload. Over max file size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 trace of snow accumulation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Yeah, so anyway... so much for my earlier crankiness. R+ turned to S/S+ at 6:30, now we have somewhere between 1.5 and 3.5 inches on the ground, really impossible to measure well between melting and a good bit of wind. We are at 5650 ft. Would not be surprised at all if the power outages start shortly... our lights have flickered a couple times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 We got 1/4" here. We have not had much fall, due to downsloping from the Cheyenne Ridge. Fine with me, this place is all wet anyway, with over 2.8" of rain this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huronicane Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 I just went out and measured in Northglenn. 5.3". Egads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Best estimate here 6". Have 5.0" on the driveway but there was a lot of melting at the start, and up to 7.5-8" on the grass but that was inflated because I haven't been able to cut it all week! Lilacs and aspens took quite a hit because they are fully leafed out, other trees OK, and we kept power. 28 for a low, now 31. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 1" here on elevated surfaces. Hardly even 1" on grass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huronicane Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Chinook has probably the worst weather luck of the Colorado posters. I'm not living near where he does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach McGuirk Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Denver Intl reported 4in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 Chinook has probably the worst weather luck of the Colorado posters. I'm not living near where he does. Yeah but 8" on Christmas! Anyway, the Boulder/Denver areas are favored for getting the snow out of the NE wind. My place probably got 54" last year (2013-14) which is about average. This year, I will have to check what I posted in the winter, to figure out my total for this year. I may be about 30 or 40 inches lower than Boulder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 12, 2015 Author Share Posted May 12, 2015 Month-to-date precip for Colorado: over 5" for parts of Weld, Morgan Adams, Arapahoe counties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardWx Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 During last weeks rain events we saw an average of 1.5" over all of northern Utah, enough rain to fill up 1/10 of the Great Salt Lake(if it all drained in). The active weather will resume tomorrow evening with another slug of moisture and a marginal risk of severe weather. Set up looks good if we can get clear skies to start. Decent shear and cyclonic vorticity advection should help as the ULL spins in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huronicane Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Had a nice little hailstorm that got up to 1-1.25" hail here in Louisville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 15, 2015 Author Share Posted May 15, 2015 Tornado reported on the rural area northeast of Bennett. The exact location, 4mi WSW of Hoyt, looked a little too far away from the circulation on radar, but it may be true. Tornado warning for a small storm near Kersey, east of Greeley. Tornado warned storm tracked from near Fort Morgan to just south of Raymer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardWx Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Rained all day over northern Utah again. I was driving through Logan Canyon and there was standing water all over the road and people were hydroplaning like crazy. I saw a few cars off the road too. At any rate, scary beyond all reason is what I would call that lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 18, 2015 Author Share Posted May 18, 2015 Models are showing another substantial rain event in Colorado, with snow at somewhat higher elevations. Model soundings show temps 35-45 in the lower elevations on Tuesday. The freezing level is over 10,000ft by mid-afternoon Tuesday. Note: a Winter Storm Watch above 10,000ft. We could probably use some temps above 45! We have had 6.5" of precipitation since April 1st, but 3.37" would be average. Much of the area has gotten more than 7" since April 1st. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardWx Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 We had a pretty intense thunderstorm blow through about 5:30pm. Shelf cloud with a greenish tint too! Had lightning about every 3 seconds with a lot of CGs. Its been a great spring so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 The gloometer is now pegged, with the past 3 weeks rivaling any in Maine that I've experienced. If it's gonna rain it might as well at least warm up a bit. Can we bottle a bit of this for late August? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 The gloometer is now pegged, Fort Collins had a very wet couple of days. We have had 1.7"-1.8" of rain here in the middle of Fort Collins since Monday night. (I added up two days of CoCoRAHS reports). Even as the rain appeared to move away on radar, Fort Collins was getting a heavy drizzle last night, due to upslope winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Centennial airport near me has had 2 out of 20 days this month with no measurable rain or snow. The thing isn't so much the volume of rain (though that is pretty high) but the persistence! Wonder if there are any records for cloudiest month. High today here was 45. I cut the lawn in the same fleece jacket I wear most of the winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huronicane Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Centennial airport near me has had 2 out of 20 days this month with no measurable rain or snow. The thing isn't so much the volume of rain (though that is pretty high) but the persistence! Wonder if there are any records for cloudiest month. High today here was 45. I cut the lawn in the same fleece jacket I wear most of the winter. Well, May tended to be one of the cloudier months of the year at Stapleton (#2 month of the year for partly cloudy/cloudy days). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frontranger8 Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Centennial airport near me has had 2 out of 20 days this month with no measurable rain or snow. The thing isn't so much the volume of rain (though that is pretty high) but the persistence! Wonder if there are any records for cloudiest month. High today here was 45. I cut the lawn in the same fleece jacket I wear most of the winter. No 80 degree days yet this month at either DEN or BOU, and none in the near future. Not sure what would be a record, but certainly very unusual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quincy Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 No 80 degree days yet this month at either DEN or BOU, and none in the near future. Not sure what would be a record, but certainly very unusual.It's pretty impressive how persistent the western troughing has been. The pattern appears to be breaking down though. It will be interesting to see how May finishes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted May 23, 2015 Author Share Posted May 23, 2015 Heavy rain and thunder now lining up with I-25, and almost lining up with I-76 also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsman Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 Heavy rain and thunder now lining up with I-25, and almost lining up with I-76 also I've often noticed how storms will follow the South Platte River valley and wonder if, over the long term, the rivers were shaped by a long-running weather pattern or the weather pattern is shaped by the geography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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