{"id":78,"date":"2008-03-02T16:20:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T23:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2008-09-30T19:14:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T01:14:32","slug":"snow-blowing-snow-advisory-issued-changes-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/snow-blowing-snow-advisory-issued-changes-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow & Blowing Snow Advisory Issued – Changes Are Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SnowUpdated, Sunday, 3\/2\/08 @ 4:20pm – The storm has pretty much passed to the south of the Thornton area at this time.\u00a0 The NWS says they will keep the Snow & Blowing Snow Advisory in effect until 8:00pm but there is little cause for concern on our side of town.\u00a0 Any lingering showers should be confined south of I-76 and I-70.\u00a0 Look for clearing skies tonight and a cool but decent day tomorrow.\u00a0 Our next chance for precipitation should be into Wednesday but at this time that doesn’t look like it will amount to much.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Updated, Sunday, 3\/2\/08 @ 2:00pm – After a bit of a lull things started picking back up for a while.\u00a0 Winds continue to blow quite a bit and more snow is falling.\u00a0 As previously mentioned, it is difficult to measure with how much it is blowing and drifting.\u00a0 The National Weather Service guidelines say to take an average and pretty much make a “best guess” so that is what we do – call it 4.1″ of snow thus far today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Areas south continue to get\u00a0the worst of the storm, particularly from Park and Jefferson counties east through Douglas and Elbert counties.\u00a0 Blizzard conditions exist in these areas and do stretch north into eastern Adams county and to Limon.\u00a0 Travel is not advised in these areas.<\/p>\n

Radar does seem to indicate<\/a> that the storm is slowly moving out and we should start seeing a decrease in intensity on the north side of town in the next couple of hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking of blizzards…\u00a0\u00a0As of yet, this storm has not been classified as\u00a0an official one – at least in the metro area.\u00a0 By National Weather Service definition, a blizzard has winds of 35mph or greater and\u00a0blowing snow that reduces visibilities to 1\/4 mile or less for more than 3 hours.\u00a0 Today, while the wind has been nasty,\u00a0speeds\u00a0have\u00a0 been a bit erratic and we haven’t \u00a0had the sustained speeds to meet the definition.\u00a0 Further, snowfall rates for the most part haven’t caused that severe of visibility issues.\u00a0\u00a0 Areas south and east of Denver however do appear to meet the criteria.<\/p>\n

Updated, Sunday, 3\/2\/08 @ 8:40am – Fast and furious would be a good description of this storm.\u00a0 The wind is the biggest thing right now causing drifting.\u00a0 In our area depending on where you measure you can have anywhere from 1\/2″ to 5″ which makes it pretty difficult to get an accurate measurement.\u00a0 Radar does currently show<\/a> that the worst of the storm has passed us by so it should continue to taper off although the wind will be with us for a while.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Below are a few pictures we took at around 6:40 this morning as the worst of the snow was falling.<\/p>\n

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Updated, Sunday, 3\/2\/08 @ 5:25am – The storm is here!\u00a0 Snow has started falling in the north Thornton area just in the last 15 minutes.\u00a0 Coupled with it are extremely high and dangerous winds.\u00a0 The winds started building about an hour ago as the storm approached and reached a crescendo just before 5:00am when we recorded a ThorntonWeather.com record wind gust of 46mph<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 This shatters the old record of 40mph.\u00a0 Current average<\/em> windspeeds are above 30mph which is quite high.<\/p>\n

Radar is showing the front moving south<\/a> across the area and conditions should continue to deteriorate as we get closer to sunrise and as the morning progresses.\u00a0 Please rememeber that there is a Snow & Blowing Snow Advisory in effect until 8:00pm<\/a> tonight.\u00a0 A snow and blowing snow advisory means that visibilities will be limited due to a combination of falling and blowing snow. Use caution when traveling, especially in open areas.<\/p>\n

Saturday, 3\/1\/08 @ 11:00pm – At 9:51pm tonight the National Weather Service issued a Snow & Blowing Snow Advisory for much of central Colorado and the central and northern mountains.\u00a0 This goes into effect at 5:00am Sunday through 8:00pm.\u00a0 Areas affected do include the Denver metro area.\u00a0 Current models are indicating a stronger than expected upslope with this storm which will help slow it down as it moves through the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rain and snow showers could start to appear after 2:00am,\u00a0changing to mostly snow by dawn.\u00a0 By the end of the day\u00a0Sunday we could see between\u00a0three and five inches of snow in Thornton.\u00a0\u00a0However,\u00a0the ground is pretty warm thanks to the nice weather in recent days so\u00a0a lot of it won’t stick.\u00a0\u00a0The wind could cause some minor drifting and higher accumulations.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The south metro area and the Palmer Divide could see some significant accumulations and driving conditions will deteriorate quickly so if you are heading that way, please be aware.<\/p>\n

This is of course quite a change compared to today (Saturday) when DIA reached a new record high for this date of 74 – the old record was 73.\u00a0 Up north in Thornton we were a bit warmer with a high of 75.7.\u00a0 We hope everyone enjoyed the warmth because change is coming!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Updated, Sunday, 3\/2\/08 @ 4:20pm – The storm has pretty much passed to the south of the Thornton area at this time.\u00a0 The NWS says they will keep the Snow & Blowing Snow Advisory in effect until 8:00pm but there is little cause for concern on our side of town.\u00a0 Any lingering showers should be … Continue reading Snow & Blowing Snow Advisory Issued – Changes Are Here!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}