Just started snowing lightly in Highands Ranch.
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Just started snowing lightly in Highands Ranch.
Okay, I was thinking more that the weight of a big, wet, snow would push the seeds into the soil, but I could see it going the other way as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by SideShow Bob
With the recent and coming snowstorms the forest service, county and other mountain forest properties have been burning slash piles by the thousands to reduce fuels.
The latest NOAA weather forecast for our area is for 27-42 inches between now and Sunday night. Only have calm wind and light fog at this time. Waiting, waiting, waiting, tick-tock, waiting....
No snow yet in north Fort Collins.
It’s coming down pretty good right now in SE Aurora/Southlands.
We have about 2 or 3 inches of heavy wet snow. but it has stopped
Sort of trying to snow here now.
Yesterday they said travel this time of the day would be difficult or impossible but my wife and I had no problem making the half mile journey to Old Chicago for lunch/drinks.
1700 flights canceled.... I’m sure there are some pissed off people who were slated to fly today... it’s simply not cold outside...
Starting to snow pretty good in Boulder now.
Bust!
Maybe weather guessers should have a talent other than looking purdy on tv
Same here in Thornton now. Coming down pretty decent. Maybe we will get a bit of accumulation.Quote:
Originally Posted by .455_Hunter
At this pace I?ll probably shove the first few inches off my driveway around dinner time.
Snowing moderately, and I am planning to head out to Lafayette/Broomfield and comeback before snow sticks.
Snowing big fat pretty flakes in j town.
Melting fast too
Moderate snow here, just starting to stick on the grass.
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Hard snow here, easily 2 inch per hour. Started sticking about 30 minutes ago.
Coming down light in my little part of the world in Centennial. Only sticking to the grass, sidewalks/streets no accumulation yet.
Decent snow coming down now up here. Bring it on!
My wife and I were supposed to start setting up her space in a consignment shop and the "I've been in Colorado since 1978" owner (right) closed/cancelled this morning due to weather.
WTF? It's 32F here in parker and the roads are wet or a little slushy with no accumulation to speak of.
She works during the week and now will be lucky to have one day to setup before the shop opens and I'm booked for work next Saturday.
This doesn't seem like much of a blizzard, Im at 8300 ft West of Boulder and have about 5" since noon.
I bet everyone would shit them selves if they had to go through the blizzard of 82 that was a blizzard and a great time I might add.
Went through the '82 storm. Lots of shovel time involved digging out, but drove from Thornton to Glendale and back to bring my sister to family gathering. In a 76 chevy Malibu. Considered it an adventure.
Clean drawers then, yawning right now.
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it shut the city down for a week nobody drove anyplace period. snowmobiles are the only thing that was on the road.[ROFL1]Quote:
Originally Posted by crays
Accumulation is looking really lame so far in Colo Spgs
There’s plenty of snow falling, but it’s all just running down the gutters... bah.
Last I heard this storm is supposed to be bigger and badder than that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by HunterCO
Since I wasn?t here for that one I?m now thinking you guys that survived it are all a bunch of sallies and like to over exaggerate because it couldn?t have been too bad if this event is worse.
I was suppose to go to one of thorncreek/riverdale/legacy driving range today with my daughter.
I am just watching The Players' TPC Sawgrass (which I like better than US Open and Masters combined).
Latest I see in the DP . . . sounds like it's delayed and maybe a bit scaled back. "It's still coming, though" apparently.
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/03/1...turday-sunday/
Update at 3:25 p.m.: Though Colorado’s highly anticipated snowstorm appeared calmer than expected Saturday afternoon, experts warn both intensity and accumulation will pick up in the evening hours.
Right now, the northern foothills and portions of the I-25 corridor in Larimer County are experiencing the most snow, said Zach Hiris, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder. But after sunset, the temperature will drop and conditions will be more favorable for upslope snow across the entire region from Denver to Wyoming.
“As the winds blow east to west, you’ll have this gradual rising motion and that helps generate extra snow because you cool the air as it goes up and that also makes it a little bit more moist,” Hiris said. “Accumulations haven’t been all that impressive today, but the set up for tonight and tomorrow looks favorable for long duration heavy snow.”
Meteorologists still expect up to a foot-and-a-half of snowfall in Denver, up to two feet in Boulder, and more than that in the foothills by the end of the weekend.
Lots of wiener comparing going on. Ya'll got nothing on 1913. https://www.outtherecolorado.com/new...6667b31f2.html
And even then, 1913 had nothing on 1899 Breckenridge: https://www.breckenridgeassociates.c...e-capsule.html
79 straight days of snow. No supplies or trains were able to make it in for something like two straight months. People didn't just dig out, they literally had tunnels coming out of some of the shops and homes. 40 foot drifts. And they still survived. Kids had fun. The hardiest Coloradoans would be the wildlife/livestock that "lived through it" not the warm and snuggly people.
Trust me it was a beast as a 14 year old boy the snow was chest high I have pics it was no joke and yes we survived just fine because back then we were not pussies. It shut the entire city of denver down for over a week nobody could even think of driving. The pics I have would blow your mind the snow was over 3 feet deep in the street unless you had a monster truck or a snowmobile your ass was stuck. I never walked to school both ways uphill either so try another cliche.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
Believe me, I wasn?t downplaying that event or your experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by HunterCO
I was mostly pointing out the continuing misinformation and exaggeration that the ?media? insist on engaging in.
If you believe what you see and hear in the ?news? then this is worse than that storm in the 80?s.
I wasn't here until '84 but the storms in 1997 and 2003 were pretty intense as well. The bomb cyclone in March 2019 was pretty fun too-I had the older grandson at the Denver Museum and Science when they announced shortly before 10am the museum was closing. My son and his family live in Parker. My trusty old '03 Tahoe got us there pretty easily, sometimes I miss that vehicle.
1997 and 2003 was pretty intense. 2007? was crazy too.
1997 was fall, and 2003 was spring. I forgot 2007? season/month.
Yeah, the spring storm in 2003 had people using their kids' sleds to go grocery shopping at the King Soopers on Hampden/Monaco. Funny seeing people going down the middle of Hampden pulling the sleds.
False. People drove all over during that storm. I was inutero and even I know that. Did the '82 storm even make the top three biggest storms on record?Quote:
Originally Posted by HunterCO
1982 storm, I remember driving home in the snowstorm and thought I would wait till tomorrow to get beer.
Not a wise idea!
We had bought ourselves a Commodore 64 computer that Christmas and that helped pass the time for sure.
why do you always insist on talking out your ass yes it did shut the city down you want to see the pics of a time you know nothing about?Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
About 2" on top of the hot tub here in Foco
I heard stories that back in the 60's, it got so cold in GJ that the power lines started snapping, they hadn't anticipated that level of negative temperatures even being possible and didn't put enough static sag into the lines. That said, I wasn't alive, so I can't vouch for it, and the historical weather records I'm finding on a brief online search seem to start with the weather satellites (70's) so I don't know if it is in fact, true. I don't know anyone living there in the 60s to ask anymore, either.
By the numbers, in Denver at least, 2003 was bigger than '82. Parts of Aurora got 40" in 2003. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...152adfb93f.jpg