Friday, April 3, 2009

Confidence Remains Low Surrounding Details

There remains quite a bit of uncertainty around tonight and tomorrow's storm. Therefore the National Weather Service has kept us under a winter storm watch even with the approaching storm just hours away. Would expect that if discrepancies between the models get get worked out in a way that is favorable for snowfall here in town, that we will see a winter storm warning or blizzard warning posted sometime in the next hours.

Here is the problem - many of the model solutions have the low moving north as it passes tomorrow. This means after getting some snow tonight, the heaviest snow will move north to the Wyoming line and points east and west. We need the low to continue to track south of us!

Anyway - expected rain to change to snow during the evening hours today. We then should expect some accumulating snow during the overnight hours (maybe 2-5 inches), and if things work out we should continue to get some good snow tomorrow. Many of the snow forecasting models are still calling for 6-12 inches, we just need the other models to come into agreement!

This image shows the winter storm warnings surrounding Denver (pink) but Denver still just under a watch.

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