1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Denver/Boulder, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 8, 2:55 PM MST, 6 hours 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 255 PM MST SUN JAN 8 2006 .SHORT TERM DISCUSSION...LATEST IN A STRING OF LITTLE WAVES THAT HAVE RIPPLED THROUGH A LARGER TROUGH IS AMPLIFYING ACROSS WESTERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON. ONE MORE UPSTREAM OVER NRN UT...WHILE A SUSTAINED AREA OF QG LIFT LIES ACROSS WY. WINDS ON THE PLAINS ARE TRENDING MORE NORTHERLY BUT PAINSTAKINGLY SLOW TO DO THIS AS THE SHORTWAVES FLY PAST. MOUNTAINS WILL HAVE DECENT SNOW THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...THEN LESS BUT POSSIBLY SOME ENHANCEMENT AGAIN WITH THE UTAH WAVE. WIND WILL CONTINUE SO EVEN IF THERE IS LESS SNOW THAN TODAY THE SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY WILL BE JUSTIFIED. CHANCE OF SNOW ON THE PLAINS IS PROBLEMATIC. SHORTWAVES COMING OVER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAY PRODUCE SOME SHOWERS AS DOWNSLOPE DIMINISHES. MAIN THREAT SEEMS TO BE THE BAND OF SNOW OVER WYOMING TRANSLATING SOUTHEAST. MODELS WEAKEN THIS AS IT ARRIVES WITH THE SNOW NOT REACHING DENVER. I HAVE SOME DOUBT ABOUT THIS FALLING APART SO QUICKLY. I WILL RAISE POPS FOR THE NORTHERN BORDER AREAS WHICH ARE MORE LIKELY TO GET SNOW OUT OF THIS BETWEEN THE ANGLE IT IS MOVING AT AND LESS EFFECT OF DOWNSLOPE WINDS. RAISED MOUNTAIN POPS JUST SLIGHTLY FOR MONDAY MORNING...BUT IT DOES LOOK LIKE WE SHOULD CLEAR OUT PRETTY WELL AS THE ENTIRE TROUGH MOVES PAST US WITH MUCH DRIER AIR BEHIND. RAISED MOUNTAIN TEMPS A LITTLE DUE TO MOISTURE AND CLOUD COVER. .LONG TERM DISCUSSION...DRY AND WARM WEATHER WILL BE THE MAIN STORY THROUGH THE WEEK. THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK WILL SEE A BREAK IN THE WEATHER ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY AS THE NEXT UPPER TROUGH BREAKS DOWN AND A TROUGH PASSES OVERHEAD. DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH MOISTURE THE SYSTEM BRINGS...THE MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT PLAINS WILL SEE PRECIPITATION. TEMPERATURES MAY BE WARM ENOUGH OVER THE URBAN CORRIDOR THAT MIXED RAIN AND SNOW OR RAIN MAY RESULT. ANOTHER RIDGE DEVELOPS BY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WITH A RETURN OF ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. MODEL SOLUTIONS BETWEEN THE NAM AND GFS ARE SIMILAR WITHIN REASON...SO CONFIDENCE IN FORECAST IS PRETTY GOOD. && .BOU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY TONIGHT THROUGH 6 AM MST MONDAY FOR MOUNTAIN ZONES 31...33 AND 34. && GIMMESTAD/KDRBY
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1206 PM MST SUN JAN 08 2006 COZ030>051-091300- JACKSON COUNTY BELOW 9000 FEET-WEST JACKSON AND WEST GRAND COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-GRAND AND SUMMIT COUNTIES BELOW 9000 FEET-SOUTH AND EAST JACKSON/LARIMER/NORTH AND NORTHEAST GRAND/ NORTHWEST BOULDER COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST GRAND/WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST BOULDER/GILPIN/CLEAR CREEK/ SUMMIT/NORTH AND WEST PARK COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-LARIMER AND BOULDER COUNTIES BETWEEN 6000 AND 9000 FEET-JEFFERSON AND WEST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET/GILPIN/CLEAR CREEK/NORTHEAST PARK COUNTIES BELOW 9000 FEET-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PARK COUNTY-LARIMER COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTHWEST WELD COUNTY-BOULDER AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES BELOW 6000 FEET/WEST BROOMFIELD COUNTY-NORTH DOUGLAS COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/DENVER/WEST ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES/ EAST BROOMFIELD COUNTY-ELBERT/CENTRAL AND EAST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET-NORTHEAST WELD COUNTY-CENTRAL AND SOUTH WELD COUNTY-MORGAN COUNTY-CENTRAL AND EAST ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES- NORTH AND NORTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTH LINCOLN COUNTY-SOUTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY-LOGAN COUNTY-WASHINGTON COUNTY-SEDGWICK COUNTY-PHILLIPS COUNTY- 1206 PM MST SUN JAN 08 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SNOW WILL CONTINUE IN THE MOUNTAINS THROUGH THIS EVENING THEN DIMINISH. STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL IN THE HIGHER MOUNTAINS WILL BE 5 TO 14 INCHES WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS ON WEST FACING SLOPES NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS AT 20 TO 35 MPH WILL PRODUCE AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...AND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ABOVE TIMBERLINE AND IN THE FRONT RANGE FOOTHILLS. ON THE PLAINS NORTHWEST WINDS WILL GUST TO AROUND 35 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT AND SOME PLACES MAY PICK UP A SMALL ACCUMULATION OF SNOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A DRY AND MILD PATTERN WILL BE OVER THE AREA TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM WILL AFFECT THE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY WITH A CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS. AT LOWER ELEVATIONS...DRY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. GIMMESTAD/DANKERS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds blew briefly atop Niwot Ridge in Boulder County. Peak wind gusts reached 107 mph (93 kts).
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