We flew into Denver last weekend to visit my son in Loveland for the first time since his 2019 wedding. You couldn’t have asked for better weather. It was 65 and sunny the four days we were there. We were able to go hiking in a national park and drive up to Estes Park on the winding scenic Route 34. This weekend the forecast for Loveland is 28 inches of snow. We really lucked out this time.
While much of the country has experienced warmer temperatures this week (something we outlined here & here), a much-needed change from last month’s polar vortex blast that nearly collapsed Texas’ power grid, a monster storm could strike Denver and surrounding areas this weekend.
AccuWeather meteorologists continue to track the weekend winter storm, making its rounds in southern California mid-week and set to arrive in southern Colorado late Friday and dump snow across the state through late Sunday or early Monday morning.
“The looming storm threatens to be a long-duration event that could result in snowfall totals that could reach 2 feet in Denver and pile as high as 3 feet in places west of Denver, such as Boulder and Fort Collins. Heavy snow will stretch north into Wyoming as well,” meteorologists said.
AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Bernie Rayno said the snowstorm could “eclipse the seasonal total in one storm.” He said, “Denver has received 34.1 inches for the season to date. The storm has the potential to rank among the biggest on record in Denver.”
Winter weather advisories have already been posted across Colorado.
While Southwest, Midwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast regions are experiencing warmer temperatures this week, cooler weather may arrive later this weekend into early next week.
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Metro Denver and all the coastal transplants for the last 2 days
Only French toast will save you.
Metro Denver and the coastal transplants on Sunday
The old saying is very true…if you don’t like the weather in Colorado wait 5 minutes, it’ll change.
I thought it was “blink your eyes”?
States from Maine to Washington have made that claim their own. As to the origins, most say it originated with Mark Twain — “If you don’t like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.” — however, none of them can provide real documentation.
Nevertheless, one bit of circumstantial evidence is that Mark Twain DID have something to say about New England weather. From a speech he gave in NYC in 1876 …..
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“I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don’t know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerk’s factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don’t get it.
There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger’s admiration — and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on the people to see how they will go. But it gets through more business in spring than in any other season.
In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four-and-twenty hours.
It was I that made the fame and fortune of that man that had that marvelous collection of weather on exhibition at the Centennial, that so astounded the foreigners. He was going to travel all over the world and get specimens from all the climes. I said, “Don’t you do it; you come to New England on a favorable spring day.” I told him what we could do in the way of style, variety, and quantity.
Well, he came and he made his collection in four days. As to variety, why, he confessed that he got hundreds of kinds of weather that he had never heard of before. And as to quantity — well, after he had picked out and discarded all that was blemished in any way, he not only had weather enough, but weather to spare; weather to hire out; weather to sell; to deposit; weather to invest; weather to give to the poor.
I’ve sweated in the 90’s then was bombarded with rain, lightning and hail, and then stood in a snow squall in the course of 60 minutes in July near Vail one summer.
Twain also said “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco”.
C’mon man, 2003 was heck of blizzard… and since when (the Free Republic of) Boulder, Fort Collins are West of Denver?
It’s being nit picky but technically Boulder proper and Fort Collins proper lie west of the City and County of Denver. In reality it’s damn near one giant Metro Cluster Fletch from Castle Rock North to Wellington with a few corn, hay and sugar beet fields scattered in here and there.
Going North of 25 the few times I had to go to Boulder it seemed like I was going slightly North West but not West. Going West for me was going to Golden or the Dinosaur Ridge by Morrison. I bet everything changed since I moved out in 2008.
The Cluster you mentioned existed in the South when I already there from Castle Rock to Centennial with the few mostly hay field.
The ugly ING building on the East side of 25 still there or has it fallen down finallY?
Still there
Bummer
Just my luck, we are headed there next week.
You should have seen the Kalifornian in the fall of 92 (or was it 93) when a fairly nasty snow storm fell. The snow was very wet and trees still had their leaves on, so there were plenty of broken branches, particularly near DU. T’was hilarious to watch them. That’s when I put a sticker on my car: Don’t californicate Colorado
Oh my goodness, big frigging snowstorms happen in Denver routinely. Especially Springtime (or nearly Spring).
Everyone talks about Springtime. I’ve noticed the summer seems to happen later and is shorter. The solar minimum? We have another month or two where it can snow. it’s snowing outside right now here in northern AZ.
I have seen snow on August 2nd in Denver. It was in the 80’s, and to be more precise it was in 84 or 85 not too sure.
Seems like July is about the only no-snow month along the Front Range. Not a drop of rain nor an airborne snowflake yet.
Saw a couple of inches in Colo Sprgs after school was already out for summer break. I think the snow fell on June 4, 1975. Not in the mountains but in far west CS.
Good deal! It has been drier than a popcorn fart here.
Since when can weathermen predict the weather……they are predicting an epic storm. Means it will be a tempest in a teapot…..a non-event. And I grew up in Loveland,. My family still lives there. I was there during the X mas blizzard of 82 visiting family. I can remember 8 foot drifts on the side roads in Latimer county back in the 70’s.
I moved from Gunisson to Denver in June of 1979 with the wife. We had GMC Vandura and were pulling a Ford Galaxy 500 coupe. In South Park we encountered a blizzard. I was so happy about the 500 behind she was keeping on the road otherwise I don’t know where I would have ended.
We lived in Colo Sprgs circa 1974, and one snowstorm in either March or April, was so powerful that the drifting snow totally buried the two vehicles in the driveway all the way up to the garage roof. Next day shoveling, it was so warm that we were in short sleeve shirts.