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Snowing at a good rate now and beginning to stick... SLC has a strange climate. It's been a moderately snowy winter in Denver.

Hmm, snowing and sleeting already here in Parker. Hopefully it doesn't change over to rain but I think it will, before going all snow again later.

Yeah this coming snow looks like the best shot since I've moved here. Back to 60s/70s for the weekend probably.

I was at Chatfield Lake and Roxborough Park yesterday. I didn't see any whitecaps at Chatfield. The grass and vegetation greens up in 2-3 weeks usually? What about trees? I noticed one or two species of trees are green right now but that's it and they're not too common. Standley looks like a better lake by the way.

Moderate snow falling now in downtown Denver. Started out as rain earlier today and changed over around 730am.

If you have someone to go with, I recommend driving to Deadhorse. It's usually not snowy yet or not too snowy yet, at least in early September. It's a long and intense drive though so you'll have to stop in the Fairbanks area anyway. I'd like to visit again sometime.

I guess March snow isn't in the cards this year. What an amazing run of warmth the PNW has had. What is going to FINALLY shake this pattern up for good?

Yeah, it's definitely a strange place and way too hot in the summer. Colorado feels more like home. Although it reached 80F today with single digit RH again.

yeah I'm pretty much moved over but looking for work. It's a lot easier in person to get hired. I might move to OKC in a month or so though depending on a job I interviewed for. I visited SLC for a night along the way.

Nope. All I know is that March-June last year in Eugene was really nice. March was pretty wet still actually.

Yeah it can be a bad climate but when things line up, it's really good, whether it's winter, spring, fall, or summer. Spring 2014 was very pleasant, at least in Eugene. How was OKC? They had some decent rain recently I think.

pretty low dew points in the Denver area right now. It's -4F where I am. Pleasant temperature around 70F.

70F and sunny here in downtown OKC. The sun sure is strong compared to the PNW, what a difference 10 degrees in latitude makes. I'm driving to Denver tomorrow and staying for a few weeks at least. When I was there two days ago it was 59F and sunny with piles of snow still.

Driving to SLC-Denver-Oklahoma City starting tomorrow. The weather looks pretty much perfect along the way.

B Too many rainless cloudy days but the relatively high amount of sun has been nice. Mid-November was the most wintry feeling part of the winter.

I'm a geologist (engineering, environmental, etc).

Looks like another decent bout of cold and snow on tap for Denver this weekend. 75% chance I'm moving there in late April/early May. Jobs in my field are rare in the PNW so...

Mini-tsunami for the people on Wreck Beach?

Yeah, I can't wait for fog season to end. Definitely one of the worst things about this climate.

oh man, last spring in Eugene was amazing! Everyone had really horrible allergies though but the weather made up for it. I will be surprised if 2015 has such a nice spring.

Remember March and June 2012?

Jeff Masters of Wunderground: The densely populated area from New York City to Boston could experience one of its ten biggest snowstorms on record early this week, as a textbook nor’easter takes shape over the next 48 hours. While local details are bound to evolve somewhat as the storm develops, the models are now in strong, consistent agreement on a potentially crippling snowstorm. Blizzard watches were hoisted on Sunday morning from eastern New Jersey to northeast Massachusetts, including the New York, Providence, and Boston metropolitan areas. Despite the increasing skill of computer forecast models in recent years, this week’s threat emerged remarkably quickly. As recently as Friday, the model consensus was for a weaker storm that would sweep through the region from west to east, then strengthen well offshore. One of the first models to switch gears was the ECMWF, whose operational run issued at 00Z Friday night highlighted the risk of a potential blockbuster storm for the Northeast U.S. By Saturday morning, most other models had quickly joined the bandwagon. “All operational models now have the forecast of a major snowstorm/blizzard,” said NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center on Sunday morning. The driver for this record-threatening event is a strong upper-level wave now diving across the Midwest. In line with the pattern of several other storms this year, this wave will produce a stripe of snow from northern Indiana and Ohio into Pennsylvania, dropping several inches on the Washington and Philadelphia metro areas by Monday afternoon. On its heels, a powerful branch of the jet stream will continue diving southeastward, intensified by a unusually strong ridge over the western U.S. that produced record highs across Washington, Oregon, and California on Saturday. As it moves off the mid-Atlantic coast, the upper-level energy will consolidate into a powerful upper-level low and generate a rapidly intensifying surface low. Surface pressures may drop by more than 24 millibars in 24 hours, qualifying the storm as a true coastal “bomb". Sea surface temperatures are well above average off the northeast U.S. coast, which could help fuel the storm’s strengthening. As it reaches peak intensity on Tuesday, the surface low is expected to slow down just southeast of Cape Cod, which would keep the snow machine going at full strength and lash the New England coast with winds gusting to 60 mph or more in places.

I'll wait till March 20th to call it a winter. We could get some anomalous snow in March.

At least this winter has been more pleasant than 2012-2013 so far. January was atrocious in Eugene that month.

It sure felt like a summer day on the Northslope today here. Mucky clouds, steady temps in the 30s, and a light breeze.