Official 2018-2019 Colorado Winter and Snow Thread (Grand Junction, Telluride: roads, historic)

[Neditate]

Storm is over up here. 21" total. It was snowing so furiously for a time we were getting 2.5-3" per hour. Between noon and 1 pm we got 4". Crazy March storms! I am very grateful that we didn't get the wind that so many have dealt with today (for a change).

[otowi]

The snow is over here but the wind is still an issue - it has partially torn off my parking cover and I can tell the wind is still going although less than before because I get the pleasure of hearing the cover bang around loudly with every new gust.

[Vision67]

https://gazette.com/news/colorado-re...95f301c54.html

"In true Colorado style, Wednesday’s major storm surpassed initial predictions, upgrading from blizzard to full-on snow hurricane.

The storm appears to have intensified faster than expected, dropping more than 24 millibars in pressure within 24 hours, the threshold for what meteorologists call a “bombogenesis,” or a bomb cyclone.

Klint Skelly with the National Weather Service in Pueblo previously said models showed barometric pressure dropping only 15 points. But just as the blizzard warning was going into effect in Colorado Springs at 10 a.m. Wednesday, new models were showing pressures around 971.2 millibars, one of the lowest recorded pressures in the state’s history.

The reading was taken in La Junta, where state Climatologist Russ Schumacher previously reported a low of 975 millibars in 1973. The average pressure at sea level is 1,013.25 millibars.

Later in the day, Schumacher reported even lower pressure in Lamar, which measured at 970.4 millibars.

Experts are still working to determine exactly how far pressure has dropped since the start of the storm and whether the state has set a record for low-pressure storms, but Skelly says preliminary information indicates “we did achieve bombogenesis.”

Initial readings taken over La Junta at 10 p.m. Tuesday showed the storm at 995.4 millibars. At 9 a.m., it had fallen to 971.2 millibars, Skelly said. And that’s likely as bad as it will get.

“It seems that the low has stopped deepening,” he said.

One record already set: rainfall. The National Weather Service in Pueblo reported 0.76 inches of rain just before noon Wednesday, surpassing the record of 0.43 inches in 1973."

[TigerLily24]

I-25 is still closed from Lone Tree to Colorado Springs.
No word yet on when people who were rescued from the highway yesterday will be able to get back for their cars.

[Indigo Cardinal]

Wow.....does anybody know if SW Colorado has ever had that much of a snowpack?

https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref...CMyDilwrxN_HZs

[suzco]

Originally Posted by Indigo Cardinal

Wow.....does anybody know if SW Colorado has ever had that much of a snowpack?

https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref...CMyDilwrxN_HZs

Yes, quite a few times. You can see the totals at Colorado Historical Snowpack Percentage Time Series Charts
Time Series Basinwide Snowpack Percentages.

For the SW basins (March 1 records)

[Josseppie]

The storm was kind of a dud in Pueblo due to the north wind killing the moisture. This was me driving on the 47 by CSU Pueblo when we did have snow for about 30 minutes......





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W-uDCMKQ-E

[DoodlemomCoS]

Going on almost 2 days without power. I really hate the bomb cyclone. ����

[SkyDog77]

[Mike from back east]

If there's a sudden warm spell the runoff from all the melting snow could overrun river banks and flood some areas. Going to be an interesting Spring season. Maybe all that water surging down the Colorado River will add a few feet of water to Lake Mead which IIRC is getting lower from recent droughts.