Well, we don’t have 1-3 feet of snow on the ground.
Yet.
There is a good 4-6 inches up on the back porch, though, and the streets look pretty nasty, and it’s still coming down, pretty heavily. The current storm warning, as of about 90 minutes ago.
…A Winter Storm Warning Continues Today Through Wednesday…
Snow will continue through the majority of the day across the Front Range. There will be a brief break in the snow in the morning… but by late afternoon into the evening… the snow will increase once more. 3 to 6 inches of snow will fall through the day. Tonight will be the main period of snow with additional snowfall of 5 to 10 inches with up to 15 inches near the foothills expected. The snow will be heavy at times… and strong winds will cause areas of blowing and drifting snow.
That doesn’t mention the predicted 3-6 inches for Wednesday day, with light snowfall Wednesday night.
Last night, they mentioned snow starting back up Friday, though that’s not in the predictions I’m seeing this a.m.
Here’s the (ongoing) Regional Infrared Map, the Regional Radar Map, and Local Radar Map.
Some cancellations at DIA this morning. All the big school districts are closed. Portions of I-70 are closed. “Wyoming is closed.” And, quoth one hapless newscaster, “Well, you know the weather is bad when there’s nobody at Krispy Kreme” — as he shows a shot of the drifted, desolate KK a few blocks from our house …
Time to hunker down, crank up the heat, and dial up the office.
Of course, there’s all sorts of great irony that this story on Denver Water’s draconian drought plans for the summer is also running today.
Faced with a dry-spell worse in some ways than the Dust Bowl, the utility is eying two possible summer drought plans, each with surcharges. One will allow outside watering two days per week, while the second, more severe plan would ban it altogether.
[…] Under a plan designed to reduce usage by 30 percent, homeowners will be allowed to use up to 16,000 gallons bimonthly before the surcharges kick in. The plan details eight levels of water use, with surcharges starting at $1.58 per thousand gallons on use of 17,000 to 22,000 gallons. Surcharges soar to $11.85 per thousand on use over 61,000 gallons.
Maybe I should get out some buckets for all this snow …