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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#181 Postby Stephanie » Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:11 pm

It's REALLY GREAT to see all of the snow you are getting this year. I know that there have been many in the past that have left you all high and dry in the summer. Good luck and have fun!
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#182 Postby denversnowlover » Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:41 pm

Thank you :) Still snowing :) I'm loving it hence all the smileys lol
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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#183 Postby PTPatrick » Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:26 pm

It's really been going strong this evening. Just shoveled another fresh few inches...def getting up toward 18 now....knee deep. East of Stapleton seems to really drop off. Guessing out there is still near a foot...west side of town should be coming up close to 2 feet now with the radar hammering west of I-25 for the past few hours.

0z nam still squeezing out close to another half inch over the metro...which would be as much as 10 more with temps this low. Wouldn't Be surprised to see some 25 inch amounts around the western and southern edges inside 470...highlands ranch (presumably pretty far south and west highlands ranch) already has a 26 inch report. Castle rock will prolly pick up more tonight, but so far only showing around 18.


Just checked gfs and 0z showing around .25 inch or about 5 inches and lingering trough lunch tomorrow... Of course not putting much stock in it as it was wrong to begin with especially over foothills and west side of metro, just interesting to see its hanging I toward lunch now.
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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#184 Postby Dencolo » Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:15 pm

Interesting part of the shoveling was how different the snow was each time. Started off with small flakes, then larger and a little wetter during the day. Last shovel was much drier. One thing is for sure. I'd rather shovel 18" of winter snow than 8" of wet March snow. That's a back breaker.
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#185 Postby denversnowlover » Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:18 am

Here in the tech center its snowing pretty good, took measurements and looking like 18 so far! I know that it is compressing as well so there may have been more! Amazing storm
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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#186 Postby Dencolo » Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:01 am

Most places in and around town will be around 20". The official reading will be around 15" since the airport is far to the east.

Check out the 50" reading near Pinecliffe!


PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
703 AM MST SAT FEB 04 2012

..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..

0700 AM HEAVY SNOW 4 NW ELIZABETH 39.40N 104.65W
02/04/2012 M18.0 INCH DOUGLAS CO TRAINED SPOTTER

0700 AM HEAVY SNOW 5 SSW ARAPAHOE PARK 39.57N 104.71W
02/04/2012 M25.2 INCH ARAPAHOE CO TRAINED SPOTTER

0700 AM HEAVY SNOW NORTHGLENN 39.91N 104.98W
02/04/2012 M20.0 INCH ADAMS CO TRAINED SPOTTER

0600 AM HEAVY SNOW 2 SSW BOULDER 40.00N 105.27W
02/04/2012 M21.1 INCH BOULDER CO NWS EMPLOYEE

DAVID SKAGGS BUILDING

0600 AM HEAVY SNOW 2 NE THORNTON 39.92N 104.93W
02/04/2012 M13.8 INCH ADAMS CO TRAINED SPOTTER

0457 AM HEAVY SNOW 18 ENE DENVER 39.83N 104.65W
02/04/2012 M15.0 INCH DENVER CO OFFICIAL NWS OBS

OFFICIAL DIA SNOWFALL

0135 AM HEAVY SNOW 4 SSE PINECLIFFE 39.88N 105.39W
02/04/2012 M50.5 INCH GILPIN CO CO-OP OBSERVER
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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#187 Postby PTPatrick » Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:19 pm

Yep...I'm 20 inches here...still lightl snowing.

It's amazing how much time of the year make a difference in the impact on roads, etc. I think much has to do with the snow rates too. Like in the blizzard of 06 it hit on solstice so we were at our minimal sun all year and the snow rates were much higher. We got 8 inches just in the first few hours of work that morning. I think in hindsight that's why it was such a higher impact. It just snowed so hard they couldn't keep up and it was cold enough that every flake stuck. This was like 20 inches in a 36 hour period...that was 30 in more like a 24 hour period with more wind. This felt like the 08 October blizzard with slightly higher impact on travel.

In the end I think the snow rate has a bigger effect on overall impact that anything else and that 2006 storm for me is hard to top...I think probably the closest ones, I did not live here for and that would have been Christmas 82 and march 03, as all 3 literally shut down the city for 2 days...this is beautiful but it's just not quite there, and that's fine. When it's gets that bad it has such a huge impact on people, that I'm not saying I would want it.

One last bit...I do think it's a good idea shut school down so early in the gkeep cause it kept folks off the road the next morning. When kids are home parents usually are too. I have no doubt buses would ave gotten around yesterday....but I know in 06 part of the problem was it wasn't taken seriously...everybody went to work and it hit hard by 9 and people were stranded on highways for hours and hours. It certainly looked like this had that kind of potential. So bravo to to the city's and cdot...this could have been worse.
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#188 Postby Stephanie » Sat Feb 04, 2012 7:58 pm

denversnowlover wrote:Thank you :) Still snowing :) I'm loving it hence all the smileys lol


:cheesy: :cold:
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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#189 Postby Dencolo » Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:01 pm

Nice zoomed map in the link below. Seams pretty accurate as I'm right at the 22" contour, and that was my final measurement.

Was surprised at the melting later on in the day though. Should be a lot more melting tomorrow.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cm ... 4&source=0
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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#190 Postby Dencolo » Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:04 pm

Very nice write up regarding the storm, which ended up being the largest ever recorded in Denver for February.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cm ... 9&source=0
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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#191 Postby PTPatrick » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:50 pm

so much for a half inch of over night snow...up to 4 here at 11:00 and still going here in Denver.
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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#192 Postby Stephanie » Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:54 pm

Dencolo wrote:Very nice write up regarding the storm, which ended up being the largest ever recorded in Denver for February.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cm ... 9&source=0


I like the graphics of the wind up and movement of the storm. Incredible amounts!
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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#193 Postby VoodooCadillac » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:58 pm

So I was out of town for this one....and will have to cheat a bit for my season-long snowfall tally. Looks like most of the monitoring stations around Fort Collins were in the 11" range. So I'll go with that......giving us 45" for the season-to-date. Actually had a dusting last night as well, but not enough to measure.
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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#194 Postby VoodooCadillac » Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:29 pm

Some quick bookkeeping - a light and fluffy 2" + in Fort Collins last night bring our STD total to 47."
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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#195 Postby PTPatrick » Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:59 pm

Well DIA offical obs for the season so far is 52.5 inches. Thats getting close to our normal for the whole season and we still have March and April to go. next couple of weeks looks fairly typical of february with dryness, but we'll see how it plays out. after November went dud I didnt have much hope for this winter, but it has redeemed itself nicely. Here in Downtown, I would have to go back through all my posts for to get my count by I think 60 + is a reasonable guess as to where Im at now...One of these days will start keeping "real records" but I dont care "that"much :wink: . If April and March came out normal we could end the season near 70-80 inches. We are still the only city in the contiguous that has above normal snow for the year(except maybe Seattle).
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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#196 Postby VoodooCadillac » Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:26 pm

PTP - we're at 47, and it seems like Denver and the suburbs south and/or west of Denver have been consistently getting more than us, and in a few instances, significantly more than us. So I'd also take the 60+" bet.
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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#197 Postby Dencolo » Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:37 am

Nice surprise storm totals this morning. Didn't expect this much snow when I woke up.

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
715 AM MST THU FEB 23 2012

..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..

0709 AM SNOW 5 NW DENVER 39.82N 104.94W
02/23/2012 M3.6 INCH ADAMS CO NWS EMPLOYEE

0707 AM SNOW 4 S FORT COLLINS 40.50N 105.07W
02/23/2012 M0.3 INCH LARIMER CO TRAINED SPOTTER

0707 AM SNOW 1 S EVERGREEN 39.63N 105.34W
02/23/2012 M5.5 INCH JEFFERSON CO TRAINED SPOTTER

0707 AM SNOW 4 S EVERGREEN 39.58N 105.34W
02/23/2012 M4.5 INCH JEFFERSON CO TRAINED SPOTTER

0705 AM HEAVY SNOW 1 NW CASTLE ROCK 39.39N 104.86W
02/23/2012 M7.7 INCH DOUGLAS CO TRAINED SPOTTER

0701 AM HEAVY SNOW 4 ENE CONIFER 39.54N 105.23W
02/23/2012 M6.0 INCH JEFFERSON CO TRAINED SPOTTER

0655 AM SNOW 2 NE CASTLE ROCK 39.40N 104.82W
02/23/2012 M4.2 INCH DOUGLAS CO TRAINED SPOTTER

0641 AM HEAVY SNOW GENESEE 39.69N 105.27W
02/23/2012 M6.1 INCH JEFFERSON CO TRAINED SPOTTER

0635 AM HEAVY SNOW EVERGREEN 39.63N 105.34W
02/23/2012 M7.5 INCH JEFFERSON CO TRAINED SPOTTER

0633 AM HEAVY SNOW 3 S GOLDEN 40.02N 105.41W
02/23/2012 M7.0 INCH BOULDER
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#198 Postby denversnowlover » Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:35 am

I am near 7 here in the tech center...I am under a band
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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#199 Postby Dencolo » Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:26 am

This morning was probably the worst commute of the season - worse than the 20" storm. No one quite expected this, as the roads were untreated and travel was a nightmare.

Shoveling the snow reminded me of a wet spring storm. The snow was very heavy.
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Re: 2011/2012 Denver Winter Weather: Maybe this year!

#200 Postby PTPatrick » Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:08 pm

Yeah think it was all very dependant on location as far as the commute difficulty. Downtown seemed to get out from under the band about an hour earlier than the rest of the neighborhoods to the south. We were getting hammered at around 530: but it let up quite a bit at 6:30. So my commute was not bad at all, the sun peaked out right as I was going to work at 730 and the roads even were melting pretty quickly...that was while littleton and Cenntennial were still getting hammered. I ended up with 4.5 inches at my house...of course it probably helped my drive in that many people were kind of immobilized down south and west for a bit, the roads just didnt seem to have many people on them.

Definately well over 60 inches here for the year now, and probably approaching 70 pretty quickly. DIA is already up 55.
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