We’re currently enjoying sunny and warm days under a ridge of high pressure.  That, happily, will change soon.  A system currently to the west of Oregon moves over Colorado on Sunday and Monday.  As often occurs this time of year, as soon as the system passes over our mountains, it will form a Colorado low, […]

We have another low pressure system looking to impact our patrol zone on Tuesday, but unlike the last one, this one is much weaker.  Most models (Canadian, WRF, European) are only predicting an inch or so, with the American on the high side calling for 2” on Tuesday and 1” on Wednesday. After Wednesday, we’ll […]

Fellow patrollers, quick update to my last forecast (I’d love to dig in deeper, but don’t have time right now).  If a good forecast discussion is 75% reporting and 25% editorial, my last update was 50-50 of each, and this one is 95% reporting and only 5% editorial. Now that we’re within range of most […]

In late March 2003, a slow moving closed low starting to the south of us and slowly moving east caused a three-day storm that dumped 30-40” in Denver, 40-50” in Golden, and 60-80” in our patrol zone.  For the last 18 years we haven’t had a storm that one could even begin to compare to […]

Things are looking very exciting!  It looks like we may have a one-two punch later this week into early next week.  And, fingers’ crossed, the first punch could be a real doozy.  If you want the technical details, read the next two paragraphs.  If you don’t, just skip down a couple of paragraphs. There’s a […]