I wanted to kick off my blog by showing an image from http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ of how hard this latest storm had to work to avoid Denver. You'll notice winter storm watches and warnings to our west, north, and east... With a little bubble around Denver proper. Over the weekend I talked multiple times about the need for the low to track 100 miles south of where it ended up tracking in order for us to get snow out of this system. This image shows that quite clearly and you can see that if everything was shifted 100 miles south we would find ourselves in the midst of blizzard conditions right now.