As a New-Englander, this is one of the main things that freaked me out about gardening in Colorado, lol. I just checked NOAA for The Fort and no winter storm warning (fingers crossed), but it is *chilly* outside, and I want to say about 37F (colder with wind chill). I keep hearing all these lies from Coloradoans; "We never get snow here in the winter in Fort Collins, it snows and then it melts the next day..." pfft!

It's rained at least 1.5 inches here so far, and NOAA predicts a couple of inches of snow for us here tonight as well. LOVELY.

I don't know how you natives deal with it!!!!

It's not snowing in Denver?!

It is snowing so hard here in Castle Rock and has been all day today. We have just under a foot already! Douglas County School District had the school call every parent to pick up students early because the storm was supposed to get worse...and it has!

Our orginal 1970's kitchen was demoed-completely gutted-yesterday so it was Taco Bell for lunch and it'll be campbell's soup in the microwave that's sitting on the dryer tonight.

Well IÂm baaaack! Right after I posted this my power went out and was out for over an hour! When I called Xcel, the recordingÂMary it called itself (I LOVE talking to machines! >>screamDaimonic, on the NOAA map youÂre DANGEROUSLY close to that "light blue" area! Fingers crossed for youÂand me!

They just said on the weather that if our temp had been 24 degrees, this would have added up to 40" of snow! Thank you, God!

And, NO Charlene, itÂs not snowing here on the north end of DenverÂyet! IÂm up to 1 3/4" of rain now. I figured you were probably buried down there! IÂm really, really hoping it will stay just warm enough that weÂll get little or no snow up here. IÂm at 38 degrees now. IÂve got an idea, Charlene! Why donÂt you just crank up the barbecue for dinner! (IÂm too far away for you to throw stonesÂor snowballs at me!) Actually, itÂs a pretty good night for soup! What would we do without microwaves!

BTW, I just had the MRI today, and it looks like I WILL be able to make it to the swap! IÂll email you tomorrow.

WhatÂs happening with everybody else,
Skybird

Uh-oh! The rain is white! I think that's a bad sign!

Over a foot of snow and three plus foot drifts around the house. Oh well, good insulator and great soaker (when it melts).

Alot of the pond plants were breaking surface this weekend, hope they stay strong in the inches of slush building on top.

My dad always said snow is Mother Nature's fertilizer- can anyone elaborate, are there more benefits to this white stuff than the kids celebrating a snow day???

Am in Kiowa we have just over 1' but that is in drifts. Power went out for about 1/2 hour but thankfully came back on, just hope it stays on. Otherwise doing o.k.

Pacu, it's funny you should ask. I was reading just this morning in Louise Riotte's 'Carrots Love Tomatoes' that snow furnishes nitrogen, phosphorus and other minerals. She then went on to talk about "heavy isotopes", which went beyond my tiny bit of chemistry knowledge. So I guess your dad was right!

I don't know whether to laugh or cry! It's been raining here (so to speak) for three days and our grand total since 4/20 is 2/10ths of an inch! When I really think about it, I guess I'd much rather have had our weather so far this year than your's; but I can't help being a little jealous of the rain - NOT the snow.

skybird, I agree, this winter has gotten real old. However, as a native of Denver, I just wanted to throw in this cheery thought... The year I graduated from high school, it snowed the first week of June. Denver only got about an inch of accumulation on the grass and it was 80 the next day, but it just goes to show you, be ready for anything when you live on the front range.
By the way, the Artemisia versicolor is really a cool looking plant! Can you eat it???

The weekend will be a charm...predicted 80s. This storm reminded me of the 3 foot spring storm about 4 years ago in Parker. We couldn't get out of the neighborhood and guys had to hand shovel the road for 2 days. All this and people were sitting in lawn chairs outside with T=shirts basking in the sun.

Oddly, I had a convesation yesterday concerning a totally different subject than gardening with a retired weatherman from one of the stations here. While we were on the phone inbetween conversations he was telling me all going on in every part of the state. Am sure he was watching info other than NOAA. Has a well known site for plane delays and travel weather across the US. Skybird?

AS we were talking, all I could think of was our RMG friends and that he should be sitting on our forum with us. Or...maybe not, with the crazy weather info from yesterday.

And I did get plenty of welcomed rain, but no snow. Am a bit close to the mountains and think it just sweeps over.

Lots of lovely rain, and then snow. But it's a wet, spring snow that will melt quickly and do no real damage. After the last cold snap, I expected to lose leaves on my plants, but the only plant that seemed to suffer a setback was the pulmonaria.

We got 13 inches in Castle Rock! No school again today. The nice thing is we got a full night of rain before the snow started yesterday morning; so everything got a good soak first... I think I hear my neighbor snowblowing our driveway right now:) ...gotta go...

Oh, for crying out loud. This is the Great American Desert said Stephen Long, the semi-arid shortgrass prairie.

Anyone know where Noah put that ark when he was done with it?

*gulg* *gulg*

We got 4.25 inches of rain. A bit colder and we would've had a blizzard with all that precipitation and wind. The wind flipped the lights at 72nd and Alkire. One of the worst blizzards I've seen was an April blizzard and don't want another one right now.
I was going to run the drip system a bit, but I think I'll wait.

When I said we got 13 inches, I meant of snow. The power was going on & off all day for brief moments.

No "chirp" "chirp" from Jalirancher today.

Cnetter-probably good idea on waiting to turn on the drip system :)

Eh...... Had a light dusting of slush yesterday morning, that sort of perky, sparkly color on the green grass that really gets you shoes wet and cold. But the wind evaporated that off in a big hurry.

So still major drought conditions here.

Well, over on this side of the state we got ... nada. Lots of wind (of course) and dark clouds, but the rain/snow they predicted never materialized. We did have a light frost this morning though.

Downtown Colorado Springs escaped the big storm.
It was nasty here...36...windy...spitting rain and snow.

Wow, you guys are really getting hammered this year! Over here in Utah, it's been OK. We've had a few cool days (in the 50s), but overnight lows have been around 40 or high 30s. I've been hardening off some perennials and annuals I grew from seed, and I decided to keep them outside, but I've been carefully watching to be sure we don't get too close to freezing at night.

Only a slight trace of rain in Utah Valley the other day. It's going to hit 70 today and 80 this weekend! I hope it gets better over in CO!

I don't think we got any snow in Boulder (at least not in town), but it did rain for 24hrs straight which is unusual.

Ok, here it is from my area, HAMMERED!!
Skybird started this thread after I left work Tuesday. We started south on I-25 (I live east of Springs) and wound up have to go north to go east. We borrowed a generator from a jobsite and picked up gasoline in Denver. In Roxborough (5:00pm) it was pouring rain. 470 & Quebec had light snow(5:30pm ). Aurora had about 6" of snow with a solid base of slush (6:00pm). Out I-70 light snow and windy to Limon (7:30pm). Pumkin Center was back to light rain (8:15pm). Home rain mixed with snow (9:00pm). We lost power about 3:00pm Tuesday and did not get it back until Wednesday about 7:00pm. Thank goodness we had the generator.
The reports all said that Mountain View Electric lost about 100 poles and still has alot of customers without power. We have SECPA and still have a few neighbors without power. Some of my co-workers reported that they could not get home out of the Springs Tuesday night. All said and done, I probably got another 3-4 inches of water at my place. My pond on the back 40 is full again!! I will get to hear the frogs and salamanders this weekend.
Coming in this morning, we went through Yoder to Ellicott where there are drifts 5-6 foot high and snow everywhere then we did not see much in the way of snow again until we got to Monument Hill. There were power poles snapped off all along Highway 94.
Hope you all faired well. So far it sounds like it.

B

I'd like to point out that our most frequent RMG poster had this to say on Tue, Apr 24, 07 at 20:16:

Posted by skybird z5, Denver, CO
"Uh-oh! The rain is white! I think that's a bad sign!"

I believe that my note here will have about a Thu, Apr 26, 07 at 13:50 post date. So, we are coming up to 48 hours . . .

D'S'