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Welcome! Here you can find more detailed information on the blogs and posts we regularly add to the website. Everything from recent storm discussions, weather alerts and warnings and storm recaps are detailed in this area.

Latest Weather and Storm Discussion

Weekend Storm to Bring Snow Back to Eastern Colorado – Forecast valid 3-24-2023 11AM

  Current Colorado Weather Highlights Currently the only winter weather highlights in the state of Colorado are in the Western mountains near Glenwood Springs and strecthinb North to Steamboat and South to just West of Crested Butte. Those areas of the mountains...

Spring Storm Swings into Colorado Midweek – Valid 03-14-2023

A "Spring-Like" storm takes aim at the state for Wednesday and into Thursday. Some areas will see significant snow, but others will not. We break down what areas have the best chance, where the problem areas could be along with discussions of timing/impacts/severity...

Storm Takes Aim at Northern Colorado – Snow for Others Too – Valid 02-21-2023 11AM

This article has been updated with new information as of 3PM on 2/21/2023 Current Weather Alerts   Winter Weather Advisories are in effect for areas in and around Denver and to the South. Winter Storm Warnings are in effect for areas to the North including Fort...

Midweek Storm Growing Confidence for Snow and Wind – Valid 02-14-2023 7AM

Ag and Ranching Interests: Have all preparations for cold weather and moderate/heavy snow completed by 3PM Tuesday afternoon Models stayed pretty consistent overnight, which gives us better confidence about this storm. I did make a few adjustments to the snowfall...

Tricky Storm Forecast on Tap This Week – Update Valid 02-13-2023 8AM

A tricky forecast coming together as we start this week - some models continue to want to pull the storm to the South, others not so much. Some models tend to shear out the low associated with this storm and others don't. Suffice to say, we are around 36 hours out on...

Weekend Outlook and Thoughts About Next Week’s Storm – Valid 02-10-2023

A couple of quick things to chat about as we wrap up this week and head into the weekend... Weekend Outlook The weekend is looking quite nice, upper level ridging will allow for warmer air to move into the area. Temperatures are expected to be in the upper 50's to low...

A Look At This Week’s Weather – Valid 02-06-2023

I love seeing America's mountain after time away because it always reminds me that I've arrived back home! It is fascinating to see the stark contrast of Northeastern Colorado, which appears be to still be covered in ample amounts of snow (almost like a a frozen...

Arctic Cold and Snow for the Weekend – Storm Update – Valid 1-27-2023 2PM

Here's the latest on the front and associated storm system we have been chattering about for the past couple of days!   Current Weather Highlights   ...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST SATURDAY... * WHAT...Heavy snow expected. For the...

Finally Time for Snow Southern Colorado! Palmer to see Snow Too! – Valid 1-17-2023 7AM

Talking about the next 2 storm systems, both will be tricky as models can struggle with predictions with so many storms occurring in short succession with eachother. There will be a lot of bouncing, back-and-forth and uncertainty on tap for both of the next 2 storm...

Significant Winter Storm on Track – Finish Preparations Today – Valid 1-17-2023 7AM

Everything looks on track this morning in terms of our forecast, finish preparations for a significant winter storm by early this afternoon. Here's the latest forecast details around this storm from the data in as of this morning! Winter Weather Highlights Numerous...

Storm and Weather Recaps

Storm Snowfall Totals and Forecast Review 12-28-2022 and 12-29-2022

This storm through a few curveballs, but overall behaved as predicted. Here's a quick look at the snowfall totals as of 8AM this morning and a bit of discussion around my thinking and the forecast with this storm: Note: these totals will be updated throughout the day...

May 2022 Spring Snow Storm Recap and Snow Totals

Here's a quick recap of our late Spring snow storm we experienced. Seeing such high snowfall amounts this late in May is a bit rate, but snow storms themselves are not that uncommon for this time of the year. Still, getting the snow to accumulate this much is tough;...

St Patrick’s Day Snow Storm 2022 Recap

Taking a quick look at our last snow storm and how it ended up. I've included a recap from our final snowfall forecast below, snowfall amounts were pretty spot on minus a few spots being slightly under including the Denver metro area. I usually don't sweat misses by...

3-9-22 Snow Storm Recap

Last night's storm is moving out throughout the day today with dryer and warmer weather expected for the weekend. Here's a quick look at how snow totals ended up and how the forecast verified. Not a spot on forecast but most areas were pretty close to the snowfall...

Palmer Divide Snowfall Recap Jan 25 and Jan 27 2022 Storms

The last two storms were very similar in terms of their mechanisms and as expected the first storm performed better than the second. This was due mainly to better moisture in the area upon the storms arrival, it was able to squeeze more moisture out. Both storms...

1-14-2021 Winter Storm Palmer Divide Snow Totals

So for many of us this storm went as expected, but for several folks our latest snow storm was a bit of surprise. Driving out and about myself last night, I can tell CDOT was as surprised as many meteorologists were - the roads were in pretty bad shape. Here's a look...

Storm Recap 1-1-2022

We finally received our first decent snowfall of the year along the front range of Colorado! Not everyone saw healthy snow totals but it definitely helps at this point as our snowfall has been pretty abysmal so far this year. Here's a quick recap and some snow totals....

Storm Recap – Snowfall Totals 10-15-2021

Many areas saw their first snowflakes of the season along the Palmer Divide yesterday (10-04-2021) and some areas even picked up a bit of accumulation. Yesterday's storm behaved pretty much as predicted as higher elevation saw snow and a bit of it stuck in places -...

April Arctic Storm! Latest Storm Snowfall Totals – 4-20-2021

Snow Totals - Storm Discussion from our April Arctic Blast! The big news other than the snow is exactly how cold we are starting this morning. Many areas across Eastern and Central Colorado are seeing temperature more akin to a January morning than April. No double...

Latest Storm Snowfall Totals – 4-17-2021

A spring storm system moved through the area late Thursday night and into Friday morning, with a small piece of energy bringing a tiny bit of snow late Friday and into Saturday morning. The models were really all over the place with this storm (see the GFS madness a...