Awful WX

[Bill, KD0HG]

It took me 5 hours to make it home today. Stuck at an AM site (760 KHz in Denver) until a neighboring farmer came over with a Cat 4x6 tractor to yank my 4x4 pickup out of a drift. After 3 hours.

Good old boys. Gave him the $20 I had on me for diesel fuel.

The entire Front Range of Colo., including Denver, is being buried this evening.

Ho-ho-ho. Happy spring.

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*DENVER REMAINS UNDER A WINTER STORM WARNING*TRAVEL IS NOT ADVISED* Partly sunny and mild during the afternoon hours with temperatures in the lower 50s. Rain began around 3 pm downtown with reports of graupel,thunder, small hail and thundersnow. The rain turned to all snow around 5pm. Denver remains under a WINTER STORM WARNING for heavy snow and wind overnight. The forecast calls for heavy snow and wind, areas of blowing snow. 5-10" downtown overnight with 12-24" in the front range foothills. Forecast lows downtown in the lower 20s.

Another 2-4" of snow during the day tomorrow across the city. Afternoon temperatures in the mid 30s

[N3DRB The Derb]

 


graupel <-------what is this, pray tell? never heard this word before.

[w1vtp]

graupel <-------what is this, pray tell? never heard this word before.

http://weather.about.com/od/g/g/graupel.htm

Never heard of it either.  How's it going Derb?
Al

[N3DRB The Derb]

pretty good Al. everything is  a mess here, trying to clear space for the arrival of Uncle Ray and get stuff packed up for the hamfester this weekend. I'm not gonna be able to bring some of it , just too much weight. Why does everything worth a damn on AM have to be so heavy???

[Pete, WA2CWA]

Big graupel:



Definition of graupel here:
http://www.avalanche.org/~uac/encyclopedia/graupel.htm
Google is your friend 

[Bill, KD0HG]

Yes Pete, the article was correct. There was widespread convective activity as the storm wound up, a 'thundersnow' of a couple inches an hour with lightning strikes.  Today turned out to be not half bad, it's sunny, mid-40s and lots of melting. We lost two radio station sites for a few hours because of lightning, power outages and equipment failures.

[Superhet66]

Nice,
I lived out in Loveland CO. just South of Ft. Collins in the mid 90's.
I miss Colorado, lots of healthy ladies and more micro-breweries than you can shake a frosty mug at  
I remember 12 inches of snow in the morning and 70 w/ sun in the afternoon.
Had some thundersnowstorms as well. Front range weather is awesome.
                                                              Happy spring,  D.