• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

10/28/2009-10/29/2009 Winter Storm

As it stands, at 8:00 PM, 3.1 Mi north of Calhan has about 6", 4.2NW Ramah has 11.2" and Simla has 5.5" Visibility today has been Zero since sunrise, forcing me to stay home from college classes... The real winner in this storm is up in Jefferson County. Pinecliff has 43.8" as of 2PM (report from BOU)
 
Ofcourse nothing near like Denver area. Nothing stuck on the ground but we had about an hour of graupel then changeover to huge snowflakes on the wraparound of the low during the late afternoon. Was good convective precip with GR3 showing 57dbz during the changeover. Even heard a bit of thunder. Very early snowfall for Texas. Ground is still way too warm to hold anything.

I know alot of people around here are getting ready for a big ski season. The ski shops were packed today. Not sure when the resorts open.
 
For comparison, Leadville (elevation 10,152ft) received about 2.5" of snow. This is just another example of how upslope events do not affect Lake County despite the fact that it is located east of the Continental Divide.

Eventhough you are east of the Continental Divide, there's the Front Range and Mosquito Range to your east effectively robbing all the upslope moisture. Typically east of the Eisenhower Tunnel does well with east winds, but west of there gets downsloped pretty good. Upslope snow events are very sensitive to terrain. I used to live in Pine Junction, which is west of Conifer. Conifer sits on a local ridge, and then as you go west, you lose elevation into Pine Junction and Bailey. Conifer always gets more snow then points further west.

Speaking of being terrain sensitive... here in Greeley we only got 10" to 12" from this event. North winds killed us as downsloping off of the Cheyenne Ridge dried out the lower levels. My blog post
 
Some images from the Denver area during the 2 day snow event.

Trees with a coating of wet snow early morning Wednesday 10/28.
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Thursday morning 10/29
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My back deck/yard Thursday morning 10/29
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The morning drive Thursday 10/29. Just in case you were not aware of road conditions, CDOT has signs to help you out. ;)
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There was some melting but the heavy snow blocked some storm drains such as at this location at DTC Blvd and I-225 Thursday afternoon 10/29.
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Hard to believe that many of the areas that received up to 2 feet of snow will be pushing 80 degrees today. Amazing!
 
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