Denver LACK OF snow/winter thread

PTPatrick · #101 Postby **PTPatrick** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:57 am

So far can you say 'winter cancel' for Denver. January is looking nice so far. Have not had a below freezing high yet, no real snow except the dusting the other day. December was way better for snow and cold. Looked like we had a chance going out toward next week with the arctic high but Euro and GFS seem to agree of shunting that toward the east coast. For the foreseeable future Denver and the front range look to be under a fairly warm ridge.

SCMedic · #102 Postby **SCMedic** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:22 pm

This has been a truly dissapointing winter thus far..

SCMedic · #103 Postby **SCMedic** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:56 am

This is what I'm talking about! 20% chance of flurries, and I wake up to 4".. Still coming down nicely here in Erie/Broomfield... Wet snow too!

PTPatrick · #104 Postby **PTPatrick** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:55 pm

6'' final total around downtown I think...good stuff

SCMedic · #105 Postby **SCMedic** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:52 pm

A mention of a similar event on Weds...

Dencolo · #106 Postby **Dencolo** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:11 pm

Kudos to the local mets on this one (though the event did start a little earlier than anticipated). Every time they say the snow should start around early morning rush hour, it starts around noon. So imagine my surprise when I left for work and there was already 2" on the ground.

While the local mets did okay, the NWS was super conservative on this one, likely due to past opportunities that didn't pan out. Let's see if this 20% chance on Sunday results in another 6".

SCMedic · #107 Postby **SCMedic** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:44 pm

Hmmm.. 62 degrees right now... In January.. No snow on the horizon.. What the heck?

CajunMama · #108 Postby **CajunMama** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:55 pm

Darn SC...it's cooler here than denver? 47 was our high today.

#109 Postby **vbhoutex** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:00 pm

CajunMama wrote:Darn SC...it's cooler here than denver? 47 was our high today.

62? It got up to like 51ºf today in Houston.

Next weeks "arctic plunge" may be much further west and change all that even though it isn't expected to be record shattering.

PTPatrick · #110 Postby **PTPatrick** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:09 pm

Well, no real cool downs seem to be on the horizon. Late next week we should finally get out of the 60's, but we still have a fairly warm week ahead with most highs 60+, even 67 on Tuesday. Perhaps a little snow in the weekend. In any case, this has been a pretty darn warm January even with our freak snow last monday. We have been stuck in this warm pattern since Christmas Eve it seems. Long range GFS shows some possible storminess and troughness setting up in the 10+ day period, but the GFS giveth and the GFs taketh away. All I know is we NEED precip. I HATE La Nina

PTPatrick · #111 Postby **PTPatrick** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:21 am

NWS calling for 72 degrees today. You gotta love and amplied pattern...snow in Myrtle Beach, SC... 72 and bright sunshine in Denver, CO. This warm spell is something else...even some places in WY getting well up into mid sixties, and even Savannah GA has a 20% chance of snow.

SCMedic · #112 Postby **SCMedic** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:03 am

Just talked to a buddy in Charleston and they were getting a snowy mix. Crazy!

Hopefully our weather will shift cold and snow by the beggining of next week.

SCMedic · #113 Postby **SCMedic** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:35 pm

Once again the precip forecast is breaking down.. I'm so fed up with this. We truly need some moisture here, and it keeps falling apart.

PTPatrick · #114 Postby **PTPatrick** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 7:30 pm

I agree whole-heartedly SC. We are getting so far behind schedule it would take a 2 footer type storm to even come close to making it up. Meanwhile...record high of 71 today...gee whiz.

SCMedic · #115 Postby **SCMedic** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:29 pm

What does it take to get a big storm here for gods sakes!?! :roll:

SCMedic · #116 Postby **SCMedic** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:49 pm

Snow probabilities are looking better for tomorrow and tomorrow night... We'll see. :cold:

PTPatrick · #117 Postby **PTPatrick** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:37 pm

Quite a little convective band set up over NW side of town this morning in Denver...gnerally along and north of West Colfax to I76.
Downtown at my house appears to have done well with about 3-4 inches. Just up the road a piece in the Highlands/Regis/Berkley areas appears to have done better with 5-6. Southeast Denver(I work near Colorado Blvd and 9th)...appears to have only gotten about 2. So quite a bit of variation across town with greater amounts NW decreasing dramatically south and southeast. Doesnt look like Littleton, Centennial and Parker...usually the big winners got much at all. Weird little system. They called for 1-3 more inches but I am not holding my breath. These situations very rarely get much of a second wind. Its pretty rare for heavy snow stop totally and then pick up heavily again later that day once here in Denver. Seems like most of the time our good dynamics are pretty short lived unless there is a full blown blizzard situation.

SCMedic · #118 Postby **SCMedic** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:06 pm

That band set up nicely moved north out of the city, and then back down through the city.. Golden picked up 10" from it.. Downtown saw a quick 2-4" of very dry snow. NOAA mentioned snow ratio of 20:1.. Normal being 10:1.. Didn't stick to much...Blew around a lot...

Some bands setting up now just south of the city.. Hopefully they pull north and bring us more!

PTPatrick · #119 Postby **PTPatrick** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:10 pm

Ahhh...another 60+ degree day another dollar. Actually I think today was upper 50s, but who's keeping track. I am quite surprised by the lack of moisture in the bucket for January. DIA only picked up .13...5th driest January ever. And only 4.4 inches snow. I know I had 5-6 or so on the ground early in the month from that first little storm we had, and then 3.5 last week. I believe the snow earlier in the month(the fateful monday morning commute snow) hit the dowtown and west harder than DIA. The one last week was a north end storm that must have dropped most of the 4.4 DIA got.

I wasnt aware until tonight that snowfall is officially being measured for Denver at DIA now. I think this is insane. Downtown normally racks up more, and Stapleton also more than DIA in a typical upslope storm.( in the blizzard of 2006 downtown was around 26 inches, DIA was 21) This will render 100 years of snow stats for denver almost useless because if Denver looked below average for snow already, it will look even worse below average now that DIA is the measuring spot. I never quite understood how the snow stats were being done at Stapleton, and liquid at DIA though. This could be a slight factor into why Denvers precip amounts since the 90s have almost exclusively been "below average"...average for the last 100 years was measured in a slightly wetter place. Of course theres no doubt its been dry for the last 15years. Who knows though...I guess the powers that be have thought this through and maybe statistically DIA isnt that much drier than downtown...but I doubt it.

Lets think about this...what if all the sudden they started measuring NYC snowfall in Long Beach Long Island(roughly equidistant from Central Park NY as Dowtown Denver to DIA. Or even Paramus NJ. No doubt stats would skew because Long beach is on the beach , and Paramus is 15 miles inland. I know this shouldnt annoy my this much but it does...

Dencolo · #120 Postby **Dencolo** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:25 pm

72 hours away. Come on! Let's happen this time!

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod ... _072.shtml

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