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WillysWagon
04-10-2019, 18:17
Snowed heavy for a bit, now nothing.
StagLefty
04-10-2019, 18:40
Looks like it's picking up a bit here now.
osok-308
04-10-2019, 19:06
Starting to blow and swirl here in Parker.
Some accumulation on the grass and cars, but no pavement stickage.+1 for me as well. Very little sticking to pavement now.
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Looks like it's picking up a bit here now.
It is. I had to drive back across town to Westminster and the roads are very slick. People occasionally stuck in traffic, pick-ups not in 4wd all over the place, etc.
Wife came home complaining a bit. Apparently, I70 is trash, Bennett roads are trash, and hwy 79 is trash. In town was OK, but lane visibility is down.
Mrs. Hummer reported a half inch of snow when she left for work this morning and six inches on the ground when she got home this evening.
I'm in the Grand Valley where we've had spitting sleet, rain and wind much of the day. I got soaked to the bone twice today while working on irrigation. Didn't get the mowing or weed spraying done that I'd wanted to. Some of the yellow and purple mustard weeds are a foot tall already.
Wanted to do some shooting too but the desert mud is a mess now.
OtterbatHellcat
04-10-2019, 20:43
Windy, cold and generally shitty...but only an inch of snow here at this time.
Skywalker
04-10-2019, 21:04
cold, snowy and a bit of liquor to keep a soul warm in Peyton CO.
Firecracker cyclone. This storm didn't have the low barometric pressure to go with it, but that doesn't stop the media from calling it another "bomb cyclone".
colorider
04-10-2019, 22:14
News earlier today said they were not laying down mag chloride because the pavement was too wet. So I'm guessing it's going to be slick as hell until the temps go up tomorrow.
Was there even any wind?
30-40mph pretty much continous out here. Ice on the window screens hates me. They are loosening up quite a bit. Guess I get to buy more tools this summer.
BladesNBarrels
04-11-2019, 07:41
Denver Post headline: Not a Bomb Cyclone
CBS4 News: Storm Declared a Bomb Cyclone
Uhhh, what happened to good old "blizzard"?
Great-Kazoo
04-11-2019, 08:34
Denver Post headline: Not a Bomb Cyclone
CBS4 News: Storm Declared a Bomb Cyclone
Uhhh, what happened to good old "blizzard"?
What happened? Dairy Queen sued the NWS and won ;)
who knows, Cyclones, potentially devastating, possibly extreme, etc are newspeak buzz words. Who cares if there's heavy rains coming, when POTENTIALLY HIGH WATER sells. Gas, food and anything else the average consumer must run out and panic buy.
Another wet firecracker. Chalk up a win for the weather guessers!
colorider
04-11-2019, 09:03
On 9 news last night Kyle Clark called the storm Big Sloppy. Also said the term Bomb Cyclone sells news. He cracks me up.
Peeked out this morning. I think the big weather event dumped about a half inch of snow at my place. The gentle breezes we must have had caused drifts nearly an inch high in some places.
Maybe an inch or two in the grass. Glad to see the roads already look clear. My wife was making fun of the news as well. Whatever she was watching kept calling it a Baby Bomb Cyclone. She was like, "Isn't that just a spring storm?"
beast556
04-11-2019, 10:20
Pretty windy in wellington back yard is clear in the middle, snow is 4ft high against my fence all the way around.
Happy to see most of us survived and we don't have to send out search parties.
My driveway is already clear.
Why does every snow storm have to be blown totally out of proportion these days? News Flash, snow storms happen in Colorado during the winter and always have since the start of recorded time.
Why does every snow storm have to be blown totally out of proportion these days? News Flash, snow storms happen in Colorado during the winter and always have since the start of recorded time.
Technically it isn?t winter.
I guess if it snows in the spring it?s a major event.
BladesNBarrels
04-11-2019, 10:57
According to the National Weather Service, April is the second snowiest month of the year, second to March, with 8.9 inches average.
[blaster]
Everyone who has lived in Colorado for a while knows that snow storms are possible any time from Sept - May. Sometimes those snow storms can be significant. Dealing with extreme swings in weather from one day to the next IS a normal function of living in Colorado. Man up and deal with it or move. Blowing snow storms out of proportion and proactively closing schools/businesses because there "Might" be some snow blows my mind. When I was a kid growing up in northern Colorado it would require an exceptionally brutal snow storm with several feet of accumulation on the streets to close anything down. I clearly remember having to get up extra early during blizards to walk to and from school in knee high snow because it required biblical levels of snow fall to actually create a school canceling "Snow Day".
I guess the wussification of the human race is nearing completion........ Bummer
ChickNorris
04-11-2019, 12:15
I went to school in Jeffco... think we once had a snow day in 83.
I clearly remember having to get up extra early during blizards to walk to and from school in knee high snow because it required biblical levels of snow fall to actually create a school canceling "Snow Day".
I guess the wussification of the human race is nearing completion........ Bummer
Was it uphill, both ways?
Epic storms in 2003, 2006, etc. I had to chain up my truck and was giving rides to my wife's nurse coworkers.
I think that 2003 storm was the one that dumped 40"+ in Parker twice in two weeks.
Got all the snow cleared from the driveway, sidewalk and steps at 7:30 this morning. Everything nice and dry by 11. Now ready for the rain/snow allegedly heading in tonight lol. Ziva the wonderdog enjoyed playing in the 3 or so inches that filled up the backyard.
Perhaps the local media has to sensationalize snow events to placate all of the Californians who now call Colorado home?
Denver Post headline: Not a Bomb Cyclone
CBS4 News: Storm Declared a Bomb Cyclone
Uhhh, what happened to good old "blizzard"?
They're both right. From Bouldercast.com:
So was it actually a bomb cyclone?
Most accurately, no?it was not. But technically, kinda. Here?s the situation?
The term bomb cyclone is what a storm that undergoes bombogenesis is called. Bombogenesis is the term for explosive intensification of a mid-latitude low pressure system.
Both bomb cyclone and bombogenesis are very obscure meteorological terms that have been resurrected recently from the darkness of 1970?s research journals. When ?blizzard? no longer gathers reader attention, ?bomb cyclone? comes to the rescue?
Bombogenesis was coined by one scientist from northern Europe in the 1970?s to describe extraordinarily rare and rapidly intensifying storms in the north Atlantic Ocean. He explicitly defined bombogenesis as a 24 millibar pressure drop in 24 hours. This is the accepted and widespread definition of bombogenesis, and the one the media has been using for the last five or more years any time a strong storm forms and they need that sweet, sweet ad-revenue.
However, a few years later in 1980, two other scientists decided that bombogenesis criteria should vary by latitude (which does have the math to back it up). They created a bombogenesis equation that scales the established threshold (24 millibars) in relation to the original scientist?s latitude where he did his research (60 degrees north). The equation is? 24 mb x sin(latitude)/sin(60?). If we plug in the latitude of Boulder, 40 degrees, this equates to a bombogenesis threshold of 18 mb, instead of the ?normal? 24 mb. That is, if a storm?s central pressure drops 18 mb in 24 hours near Boulder, that would be a bomb cyclone.
This week?s storm seems to have dropped from about 1000 ?> 982 mb in 24 hours. This does hit the 18 mb threshold, but not the 24 mb one. By conventional standards it wasn?t a bomb cyclone. However, by the latitude-adjusted equation, it was.
RblDiver
04-11-2019, 14:08
Definitely overhyped. It started snowing right about on schedule here in Niwot (noon yesterday), was made of large, wet flakes that stuck to cars and grass, but not to the roads.
Perhaps the local media has to sensationalize snow events to placate all of the Californians who now call Colorado home?
Journalism is dead, it's "media" now. Media survives on clicks. Honest/truthful/normal stories don't get clicks.
Media: THIS IS UNLIKE ANYTHING, BE PREPARED, STAY OFF THE ROADS!!!!
Truth: This is a spring CO storm. Could be over in a few hours, could last a few days. You live in Colorado, buckle in, snow is normal, make good choices.
Also media: Sorry we got that 24-hour snow prediction wrong but beware of climate change that will kill us all in a few years. We know this for sure.
RblDiver
04-11-2019, 15:19
Also media: Sorry we got that 24-hour snow prediction wrong but beware of climate change that will kill us all in a few years. We know this for sure.
Well, I mean, of course, duh! More snow = climate change, less snow = climate change, exact same amount of snow = climate change, it's all so obvious! ;)
BushMasterBoy
04-11-2019, 21:45
Last night I had to drive 53 in a 65MPH zone. There was some hydroplaning involved. I pressed that little button on the dash.
I felt so much safer...
This week a SUN NUKE is forecasted, followed by an invasion of MONGOLIAN CLOUD HORDES, and later in the week (if there are any survivors) sputters of ASSAULT RAIN.
It seems I might have a position as a weatherman/journalist in my future.
This week a SUN NUKE is forecasted, followed by an invasion of MONGOLIAN CLOUD HORDES, and later in the week (if there are any survivors) sputters of ASSAULT RAIN.
It seems I might have a position as a weatherman/journalist in my future.
[ROFL2]
Well done! Send to local media with your resume.
BushMasterBoy
04-12-2019, 10:26
We had a "gustnado"...
https://www.fox21news.com/news/local/gustnado-spins-through-pueblo-west-home-of-the-cyclones/1914649366
Coming soon, SHARKNADO and ARMOR-PIERCING SEMIFULLYAUTOMATC HAIL.
I went to school in Jeffco... think we once had a snow day in 83.
Half a snow day. We got out at 12:20 instead of 14:20 at Lakewood High School. I walked home (all of about 8 blocks).
In the entire time I went to Jeffco Schools (1972-84), we had exactly 1 full snow day, in 76 or 77.
I?ve had two snow days in my life.
Both days there was so much snow that I just couldn?t physically get my truck out of my neighborhood. Spent the majority of those days shoveling.
Never had any snow days growing up. Had a couple of early releases due to bomb threats and might have had a few days off every couple of years for various hurricanes.
Weather should last at most 2 minutes on a 30 minute news cast. But they say the same thing 3 or 4 different ways.
One time in the second grade we were sitting in class when another teacher came into the room and announced out loud to our teacher, "Aaron had an accident so he's going to go home early." Aaron was a kid from our class that had gone to use the bathroom a few minutes before. The only reason this story stands out is because Aaron was standing right behind the teacher, in front of the entire class, holding his whitey tighties in his right hand like a grocery bag, cradling a shit that was so long that it went from the bottom of the crotch to over the top the elastic waist band. He was bawling his eyes out. It was so traumatic that I don't think anyone even laughed.
That has nothing to do with snow, but all these memories of going home early and how things used to be jostled that out of my memory. He probably doesn't include that story when people bring up going home early from school.
Grant H.
04-12-2019, 19:16
Damn.
That's a terrible way of dealing with that situation...
In hind sight it is one of my most hilarious stories, but even at the time I can remember being confused about almost every part of that situation. So many whys. haha
Fentonite
04-12-2019, 21:53
Now you have me wondering how I can use that story to get out of work... probably won’t need to change much.
Now you have me wondering how I can use that story to get out of work... probably won’t need to change much.
...not even your shorts.
ChickNorris
04-13-2019, 03:34
...not even your shorts.
Ba dum tss
I never ever had a snow day growing up. It didn't matter the weather, you showed the hell up every day. Except the opening day of deer season, that was pretty much an excuse absence, and the first day of rodeo too.
South Texas is very different than this place.....
Woke up and looked outside and it looks like we got a little dusting of snow overnight.
Why wasn?t this snowpocalypse event broadcast ahead of time so I could go raid the grocery store?
Woke up and looked outside and it looks like we got a little dusting of snow overnight.
Why wasn?t this snowpocalypse event broadcast ahead of time so I could go raid the grocery store?
Who knows how many people died in this storm?!?
We had more accumulation here in HR than in the BOMB CYCLONE.
ehhhhh.. Snow did not accumulate at all on the road. Not going to Rec Center tonight to work out and practice racquetball.
I saw a few flakes on the commute home a couple of hours ago, but I didn't actually see any snow falling until about 45 minutes ago. It's now stopped.
This time of year, I don't get bothered by a forecast for snow. It'll rapidly melt.
I saw a few flakes on the commute home a couple of hours ago, but I didn't actually see any snow falling until about 45 minutes ago. It's now stopped.
This time of year, I don't get bothered by a forecast for snow. It'll rapidly melt.
The flakes were probably driving a Prius on their way to a climate change convention..[LOL]
The flakes were probably driving a Prius on their way to a climate change convention..[LOL]
I'm pretty sure they were focused on their fondleslabs and just happened to be behind the wheel.
Besides, if they were going to a climate change convention they would have flown solo on their private jet.
Haven?t long outside in a bit but it looks like I probably got an inch or so at my place.
I was on I-70 heading west in Golden around 5:30p and the visibility was crap, probably 50-75 yards. Heavy flurries at that time, got home on the south end of the metro area and it was just rainy.
Decide to just go to rec center. When I was coming home at around 10pm, there were some (but little) dry spots on the road.
The NOAA weather prediction was for 8-16" overnight, and we had 8-9 inches on the car and truck this morning. Only about 5 inches on the concrete driveway and walks where it melted as it came down so it was easy shoveling. I won't bother with the snowplow on the gravel drive. It's so soft the plow would tear up the surface. Is this the last snow of the season?
We've gotten a good snow dump on Mother's Day the last few years.
Two more weeks to go before the chains come off the mule.
Circuits
04-30-2019, 12:05
Snowmageddon 2019
Snowmageddon 2019 II: Electric Boogaloo
Snowmageddon 2019 II: Electric Boogaloo II: Electric Boogaloo (aka Snowmageddon III 3D)
Snowmageddon 2019 IV: Resurgence of Arbor.
ChainsawGeddon.
Snowmageddon 4: So Glad I Planted A Kentucky Coffee Tree
All my fault.
Had to fly today.
Almost every travel day I've had this year has been into or out of weather.
I gotta drop my family off at DIA tomorrow.
Zundfolge
10-09-2019, 19:17
I wouldn't worry about it ... if the local media meteorologists are wigging out then it'll be nothing ... when you need to worry is when they say its going to be clear and cool THEN shit's commin'
Just checked on accumulations.
Yeah, estimated only 0.5" accumulation and it was in 80F today.
Traffic is a mess. You've got your usual suspects that have shit tires and haven't thought about winter, you've got your folks with summer performance tires that can't make it up the slightest incline, and the new imports that are experiencing this for the first time.
Traffic is a mess. You've got your usual suspects that have shit tires and haven't thought about winter, you've got your folks with summer performance tires that can't make it up the slightest incline, and the new imports that are experiencing this for the first time.
Yip. Teleworking today and told all coworkers thst would listen to do the same.
DIA: 104 delays and 14 cancellations according to the local news.
GilpinGuy
10-10-2019, 09:31
Took me an hour and a half to go 15 miles up here. Real nasty. Be safe.
Yesterday, 81 degrees;
https://i.postimg.cc/ZR556vFg/FB17D693-081B-44F4-BD55-FDC9407E7D61.jpg (https://postimg.cc/jWBTb51Q)
Today, 24 degrees
https://i.postimg.cc/25m68KqC/33AA65E3-EE00-4130-8598-FA88C3A8B94E.jpg (https://postimg.cc/68jwMzLP)
Seriously this is one of the reasons I still love living here. Come Saturday I'll be out on the motorcycle again LOL
I notice even the dog wasn?t interested in being outside today.
I notice even the dog wasn?t interested in being outside today.
Just to do her business LOL.
https://i.postimg.cc/MZbXgxXd/038F467F-C2FC-4B9D-A741-0DAB4C1DFF88.jpg (https://postimg.cc/V5vYbxqC)
The pupster has been going nuts in the snow. His first experience with the phenomenon. He loves eating it (and it has been white so far). His undercoat works well for insulation. The snow just sits on his back unmelted until he comes inside.
The pupster has been going nuts in the snow. His first experience with the phenomenon. He loves eating it (and it has been white so far). His undercoat works well for insulation. The snow just sits on his back unmelted until he comes inside.
Wait till his paws get bigger and he drops tiny snow balls all over the kitchen that you step on. Their paws create a little snow ball cavity, and it stays there for a minute until it warms up. Brrrrrr.
Been stuck on I25 north north of Tomah Road for about an hour now. Some asshole got in an accident in the construction zone and the freeway is blocked. Stay home if you can't manage to keep your car going in a straight line.
While she loves playing in the snow Ziva just turned 9 and I don't she's that much of a fan of the cold, rough (or is that "ruff" [LOL]) on her hips/knees.
The pupster has been going nuts in the snow. His first experience with the phenomenon. He loves eating it (and it has been white so far). His undercoat works well for insulation. The snow just sits on his back unmelted until he comes inside.
Snow covered puppy pic required!!!!
ChickNorris
10-10-2019, 16:37
Snow covered puppy pic required!!!!
Second that
First chance to try the remote start on my new truck. Didn't realize it was as icy as it was this morning, so I didn't use it. But coming home from work tonight, you bet I used it. Scraping the windows/getting the truck in driving condition sure worked a lot smoother than I am used to. Now I need to look up the Aurora puffer laws, but from my perspective I am good as the key isn't even in the truck, and the doors are locked.
-John
http://youtu.be/0RFQ6E9yH5k
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GilpinGuy
10-10-2019, 23:00
First chance to try the remote start on my new truck. Didn't realize it was as icy as it was this morning, so I didn't use it. But coming home from work tonight, you bet I used it. Scraping the windows/getting the truck in driving condition sure worked a lot smoother than I am used to. Now I need to look up the Aurora puffer laws, but from my perspective I am good as the key isn't even in the truck, and the doors are locked.
-John
Same here! It was nice looking out the kitchen window to see if the windows were defrosted yet. My Armada turns itself off after maybe 15 mins though so I need to keep an eye on it. Maybe there's a setting to extend that.
Snow?
What snow?
Came back in from Vegas at 1630 today without issue.
LOL
First chance to try the remote start on my new truck. Didn't realize it was as icy as it was this morning, so I didn't use it. But coming home from work tonight, you bet I used it. Scraping the windows/getting the truck in driving condition sure worked a lot smoother than I am used to. Now I need to look up the Aurora puffer laws, but from my perspective I am good as the key isn't even in the truck, and the doors are locked.
-John
If your vehicle is like mine that have remote start, the transmission is locked out without the key. Even if someone broke a window to get in, they're not going anywhere. I have to press the start button with the key in range once I get into the vehicle to allow it to be driven.
My new-ish RAM truck also uses the outside temp to activate AC/Seat Ventilation if it's hot, and Heat/Seat Heater/Steering Wheel Heater if it's cold. It's not the greatest thing for maximum fuel economy, but is very convenient and a time saver where I'm not having to wait to clear the windows to get moving.
I?ve had remote start for about the last five years and I love it. Especially since my truck isn?t garaged. My wife has been jealous so I?m sure her next vehicle will have it as well. At least her car stays in the garage so she only has to deal with snow and ice at the end of her work day on occasion.
Dealing with a Super Typhoon in Osaka, isn't much here, but has mucked up flights all over the AP, My flight from later today has been rescheduled fir Monday.
Wow. Another zombie thread full of people who don't post here any more. [zombie1][Cry]
Lots of people who should have stayed home, here. Not even 2" and lots of freaking out. Took all the back ways to work to miss the masses.
Dealing with a Super Typhoon in Osaka, isn't much here, but has mucked up flights all over the AP, My flight from later today has been rescheduled fir Monday.
Now Tuesday. running out of socks.
StagLefty
10-12-2019, 07:46
Now Tuesday. running out of socks.
We'll start a gosockmefund !!! [Sarcasm2]
http://youtu.be/rKUzxjr651s
Riverdale and 128th
2 wooden fences went through and 1 on top did not (windshield).
https://i.imgur.com/OuQpmzo.jpg?1
https://i.imgur.com/7O1dOKI.jpg?1
thedave1164
10-30-2019, 05:45
Took me 2.5 hours to get to Aurora yesterday, got the tapes ready and then Iron Mountain cancelled the run to pick them up.
oh well, laugh is on them, I was scheduled for a laptop refresh today, so with the bad weather no one showed up for work, except the deskside support contractors, went by their cave and they were happy to do my laptop yesterday.
Normally takes me around an hour to get there
SamuraiCO
10-30-2019, 12:56
So funny to listen to my wife's phone blow up with staff not coming in because of the snow. When we lived at Lake Tahoe her employer reminded the staff how lucky they were to work in such a pretty place. It snows so be prepared to deal with it. No one ever called in.
beast556
10-30-2019, 13:42
We got 6 feet of snow in Wellington, took me hours to dig the drive way out so I could go to taco bell for some fine Mexican cuisine.
Trash day was yesterday . . . Waste Management emails to say they are rescheduling service for next week (basically not picking up this week) due to "safety".
I'm out shoveling at lunch and every other competitor that operates in my neighborhood came by to pick up.
So funny to listen to my wife's phone blow up with staff not coming in because of the snow. When we lived at Lake Tahoe her employer reminded the staff how lucky they were to work in such a pretty place. It snows so be prepared to deal with it. No one ever called in.
But the folks in Tahoe are prepared. I saw 3 cars on 66 that had their tires come of the rims because of under inflation. Not to mention all the out of staters who were white knuckling it and driving 15mph.
Yeah I worked remote... [emoji477]
I was driving around last night with brand new, meaty snow tires and traction control on my van. Everyone driving 15+ mph under the speed limit was driving me crazy. I realized that everyone needs to drive at what is safe for their vehicle, but it felt being on cocaine during nap time.
Pro Disposal has an arrangement with Highlands Ranch. Their website had a notice on Monday that they weren't making any runs due to road conditions. I enrolled online Tuesday with the company that acquired Pro Disposal, Waste Connections, and their website had notifications that the folks that had Monday pickups would not be serviced until next week, 11/4. I even got an automated phone call that evening about the change. They will not be charging for extra bags put out next week (sounds like a great opportunity to get rid of leaves ;-) ). My neighborhood is full of trash cans because apparently people haven't figured this out.
In the sitcom that runs in the back of my mind; The snowplows get an opportunity to make passes through the neighborhoods and knock the cans in the streets over and onto the sidewalks.
I was driving around last night with brand new, meaty snow tires and traction control on my van. Everyone driving 15+ mph under the speed limit was driving me crazy. I realized that everyone needs to drive at what is safe for their vehicle, but it felt being on cocaine during nap time.
They can do whatever they want in the right lane. Otherwise, get out of my way. [Coffee]
11am, today in Boulder. The cold air kept the crowd at the range pretty thin this morning:
https://markpix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/rangesnow.jpg
No obese people showed up?
whitewalrus
10-30-2019, 16:32
No obese people showed up?
Boulder is a little out of my way
I was busy shoveling snow for an hour.
.455_Hunter
10-30-2019, 17:30
11am, today in Boulder. The cold air kept the crowd at the range pretty thin this morning:
https://markpix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/rangesnow.jpg
Junior Rifle was cancelled last night due to the storm.
I feel like I was robbed growing up here in the 70s. We had 1.5 snowdays in the entire time I went to Jeffco Schools (1972-1984). These days, they cancel school for 4 inches of snow...
.455_Hunter
10-30-2019, 18:01
I feel like I was robbed growing up here in the 70s. We had 1.5 snowdays in the entire time I went to Jeffco Schools (1972-1984). These days, they cancel school for 4 inches of snow...
It was similar for me- just a handful of days from 81-94 in Boulder Valley.
Too many California transplants making decisions now.
We had a late start Monday, regular Tuesday, and a full cancel today. No reason to have canceled today in my opinion.
Early release yesterday and no school today.
We are at 27j and it is normal 4day week.
Funny that there is adams12 school about 200m away from our house, but we are not in that school district.
11am, today in Boulder. The cold air kept the crowd at the range pretty thin this morning:
https://markpix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/rangesnow.jpg
Ohhh. I hope North range looks like that tomorrow.
We had a late start Monday, regular Tuesday, and a full cancel today. No reason to have canceled today in my opinion.
I believe this is often more about the staff inability to get to work than the ability of, or safety of, the kids.
Great-Kazoo
10-31-2019, 00:28
I believe this is often more about the staff inability to get to work than the ability of, or safety of, the kids.
Yet the same staff has no problem walking out of school, to wear pink hats.
Someone else mentioned it. Snow days 50 + yrs ago were called, when the plows couldn't get through.
You could stay home, go to a friends and party, or sledding. Or sledding then party.
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