| 2025-05-27 | 7:00 AM | 0.11 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Fog/drizzle yesterday morning. Gauge catch reading at 12:45pm was 0.01". Light rain at 2:35pm mixed with small hail at 2:37pm. Light rain again at 3:11pm with heavy rain mixed with small hail at 3:22pm until 3:24pm. Hail reports were submitted from both events. Second thunderstorm was more intense than the first with cloud to ground lightning. Light rain after 3:24 with precipitation ending at 4:05. Gauge catch reading at 4:34pm was 0.11". This morning, we have dense fog with visibility about 1/8 mile. All surfaces are wet except for masonry. |
| 2025-05-26 | 7:00 AM | 0.72 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Precipitation began yesterday as drizzle from about 8:30am through 9:00am. Observed gauge catch at 10:40am showing 0.01". Drizzle continued throughout the afternoon occasionally mixed with light rain. Checked gauge catch at 6:13pm showing 0.12". Close cloud to ground lightning came out of nowhere at 8:21pm with foggy drizzle conditions at that time. Looked outside around 8:30pm and observed heavy rain. Doppler indicated this was from a cell that developed to our SE. Observed distant lightning again at 9:27pm with no thunder. Checked gauge catch at 9:30pm showing 0.52". Reviewed Doppler Loop this morning indicating isolated to scattered showers overnight with a significant cell coming through between 2:20am through 2:50am. Fog and drizzle during 7:00am observation this morning. All surfaces are soaking wet. |
| 2025-05-25 | 7:00 AM | 0.07 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Thunderstorms developed mid-afternoon on the Palmer Divide and moved ENE into the early evening. Light rain developed here around 7:35pm and became slightly more intense around 8:40pm. Frequent lightning to our distant NE at this time with no thunder. Doppler radar indicates isolated rain showers during the early morning hours. Grass is wet this morning. Did not observe end of precipitation. |
| 2025-05-13 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Sunny all day. |
| 2025-05-12 | 7:00 AM | T | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Cumulonimbus began popping up in the early afternoon yesterday. A fairly strong isolated storm moved east up along the Palmer Divide during the 1:00 to 2:00pm hours. Additional storms came off the mountains in the early evening. We received a trace of precipitation from a dying storm to our west from 7:25pm to about 7:29pm. Another brief light rain shower occurred at around 7:45. Observed three strokes of cloud-to-cloud lightning with faint thunder. Outflow winds at 7:56pm. The mammatus were spectacular. Gauge catch is dry this morning. |
| 2025-05-11 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Showers and storms were mostly confined west of the Front Range yesterday. Breezy SE wind yesterday afternoon. Grass is wet from condensation this morning. |
| 2025-05-10 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Cumulonimbus began forming early yesterday afternoon. One developed right over us during the 1:00pm hour but did not observe any precipitation, virga or thunder. At 2:20pm, observed thunderstorms close to Cheyenne Mountain. Heard two claps of thunder and observed extensive virga. More thunderstorms developed in the early evening close to the Front Range around the Pikes Peak area. |
| 2025-05-09 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Isolated light showers developed in the early afternoon. I was not home to observe if there was precipitation. Heavy condensation this morning with wet gauge catch funnel and grass. Gauge catch inner tube is dry. |
| 2025-05-08 | 7:00 AM | 0.01 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Light rain shower passed through from NE to SW on the back side of the low pressure. That was the only measurable precipitation. Convective activity adjacent to the Front Range in the early evening hours with extensive virga. Did not hear any thunder or observe precipitation from this event. |
| 2025-05-07 | 7:00 AM | 1.18 | 0.7 | 0.31 | NA | NA | | Precipitation continued yesterday morning with drizzle noted at 7:30am and a pause in precipitation at 7:45. Then light rain at 7:50am and rain at 8:20am. Rain began to transition to snow at 10:15am with the outside temperature dropping from 40 to 35F from 7:00am to 10:30am. Precipitation was all snow by 10:30 and returned back to rain at 10:40am. This back and forth from rain to snow, snow to rain continued with a mix of rain and snow during the transition. At 12:30pm, observed light rain with NE winds greatly reduced from earlier. At 1:00pm, rain changed to moderate snow with snow accumulating within 10 minutes. At 1:30pm, measured 0.4" of snowpack on snowboard. At 2:00pm, measured 0.5" of snowpack on snowboard with a SWE of 0.14". At 2:30pm, observed snow returned to rain with a temperature of 33F. Wind increased at 2:39pm. At 4:00pm, measured 0.6" of snowpack on snowboard with snowfall continuing. Heavy snow at 4:34, snow at 4:37 and light snow at 4:40pm. Measured 0.8" of snowpack with light snow continuing at 5:00pm. At 5:50pm, light snow had returned back to light rain, and I measured 0.7" of snowpack with a SWE of 0.31". The following are gauge catch running totals: 8:30am 0.07" light rain, 9:30 0.21" light rain with gusty east wind, 10:30 0.32" rain/snow mix, 11:30 0.47" rain with east wind 10G20 mph. 12:30pm 0.58" light rain 36F, 1:30pm 0.62". It was snowing at that time and gauge catch funnel was filling with snow. Removed funnel and inner gauge catch to accommodate frozen precipitation. Melted down snow in funnel and got 0.10" of SWE. This was added to 0.62" in inner tube with a total of 0.72". Observation this morning indicated just liquid precipitation in large gauge catch with a total of 0.46". This was added to the 0.72" from inner tube with a grand total of 1.18" of gauge catch at 7:00am. All snowpack had melted away overnight with none remaining on the ground at 7:00am this morning. All hourly times noted are very accurate. |
| 2025-05-06 | 7:00 AM | 0.43 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Sprinkles began just before 9:00am yesterday. Next observation was light rain shower began at 11:50am transitioning to steady light rain at noon then rain at 12:25. Began hourly precipitation recording at 12:30pm. During this observation rain and wind intensified briefly while checking gauge catch. Observed rain with waves of heavy rain continuing from 1:15pm until 1:25. There was a pause in the precipitation at 2:20pm returning as light rain at 2:27pm. Dense fog began to settle in at 4:25pm as 1/2-mile visibility becoming denser at 6:30. The following are hourly running gauge catch totals and current weather for yesterday: 12:30pm 0.02" light rain, 1:30 0.16" rain, 2:30 0.23" light rain, 3:30 0.26" no precipitation, 4:30 0.27" light rain shower/fog, 5:30 0.30" drizzle/dense fog, 6:30 0.35" drizzle/dense fog, 7:30 0.38" drizzle/dense fog, 8:30 0.38" dense fog, 9:30 0.41 light rain/dense fog, 10:30pm 0.41" dense fog. All times noted are very accurate. Drizzle was occurring during 7:00am observation this morning. No thunder was heard at any time yesterday. Winds were generally SSE at 15-20mph. Fog was most dense after 7:30pm down to about 1/16-mile. |
| 2025-05-05 | 7:00 AM | T | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Very light sprinkle began yesterday at 4:44pm. Precipitation intensity increased approaching 5:00pm and continued as occasional light rain showers during 6:00pm hour. Rain bands were moving from SSE to NNW. Heard one or two thunderclaps around 5:00pm coming from the south. No hail was observed. Gauge catch at 7:40pm indicated a trace of precipitation and that is what it is this morning. |
| 2025-05-04 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Beautiful day yesterday. |
| 2025-05-03 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Gauge catch is dry, and grass is moist from condensation. |
| 2025-05-02 | 7:00 AM | 0.62 | 0.2 | NA | T | NA | | Occasional light rain showers and sprinkles began around 11:20am. At 12:27pm, observed heavy rain mixed with very small hail that probably began around 12:25pm. Hail report was submitted. Heavy rain intensity decreased to moderate rain around 12:35. Steady moderate rain continued until 2:15pm, then gradually decreased further until stopping at 2:25pm. This is a very accurate stop time. Checked gauge catch at 2:27pm and it indicated 0.41" of precipitation. Occasional light rain showers and sprinkles continued through the afternoon. Observed a light rain shower at 6:25pm ending at 6:48. Gauge catch reading indicated 0.41". As 8:00pm approached, observed about three strokes of lightning in the distant west. The last one I heard had a distant rumble of thunder. That was the last thunder I heard. Thunderstorm had an ominous low and dark cloud under it moving SE. Light rain began around 8:04pm. Precipitation increased at 8:12pm and again at 8:13pm with stronger winds from the NW. Heavy rain with graupel began at 8:15pm with graupel diameter ranging from 1/8" to 1/4". Precipitation decreased at 8:23 with graupel and only light rain by 8:25pm. Skies began to clear at 8:40 but rain sprinkles continued ending at 8:53pm. Graupel accumulation measured 0.25" on snowboard. Checked gauge catch around 9:00pm indicating 0.45" with about an inch of graupel to melt in the funnel. After melting, the gauge catch reading this morning is 0.62" with traces of graupel and heavy frost on the snowboard and ground. I entered graupel accumulation as snow. Bird bath has about 1/8" of ice. |
| 2025-05-01 | 7:00 AM | 0.04 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Very light rain shower yesterday providing a trace of precipitation between 6:00pm and 7:00pm. Doppler indicates measurable precipitation around 4:00am until about 6:30am. |
| 2025-04-30 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Band of rain showers moved east off of the Front Range in the late afternoon. Doppler indicated precipitation almost made it to our area around 6:00pm when the echos began to fade and regress back to the west. |
| 2025-04-29 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Visibility about 1/2-mile in fog. Temperature 31F. No ice accumulation observed. |
| 2025-04-28 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | |
| 2025-04-27 | 7:00 AM | T | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Drizzle continued yesterday until around 9:30am with dense fog also beginning to dissipate. Low stratus began to break up at 10:00am with the sun peeking through at 10:10am. Hard surfaces began to dry but vegetation was still wet at 10:30am. Checked the gauge catch at this time and found a trace of precipitation. Sky began to clear even more in the afternoon. Heavy condensation this morning has most surfaces soaking wet including the grass. Gauge catch is also wet inside and outside the funnel. |
| 2025-04-26 | 7:00 AM | 0.10 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Low overcast all day yesterday. About mid-afternoon, fog settled in with about 1/2-mile visibility. At around 6:30pm, dense fog reduced visibility down to about 1/16-mile. Drizzle began sometime during the 7:00pm hour which increased visibility to about 1/2-mile. Checked gauge catch at 9:40pm and it was indicating 0.05". Gauge catch this morning is at 0.10" with drizzle continuing indicating it must have drizzled most of the night. Visibility is currently at around 1/4-mile in dense fog. Everything outside is soaking wet. |
| 2025-04-25 | 7:00 AM | 0.02 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Precipitation began as sprinkles at 5:53pm with sporadic small rain drops that steadily became slightly larger as time moved on. At 6:00pm raindrops became significantly larger and a few seconds later were mixed with soft ice with an occasional soft hail stone (Hail Report completed). The rain with soft hail mix lasted about 1 - 2 minutes and then returned to light rain which ended at 6:12pm. I heard about seven cloud to cloud lightning weak thunder events during this time. Checked gauge catch after event and had only a trace of precipitation. Thunderstorms continued to develop around us throughout the evening hours. Checked gauge catch again at 10:30pm and observed almost 0.02". Reviewed Doppler Loop this morning and observed rain showers in our area at 2:15am, 3:15am, 5:45am and around 6:30am. Surfaces this morning are damp and we have a low stratus layer. |
| 2025-04-24 | 7:00 AM | 0.01 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Sprinkles from 7:00pm to about 7:10pm. Cumulonimbus clouds to our northeast and east. No thunder was heard. Doppler radar indicated rain showers came up from the south this morning and brought us measurable precipitation from about 6:10am until about 6:40am. No thunder was heard, and no precipitation was falling during 7:00am observation. |
| 2025-04-23 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Weak convective clouds yesterday mid to late afternoon. Observed virga to our NW at 4:40pm. Doppler did indicate spotty showers around us. No precipitation observed at our station. |
| 2025-04-22 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | |
| 2025-04-21 | 7:00 AM | T | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Nice sunny day until mid-afternoon when convective clouds came rolling off the Front Range with ragged bottoms. Observed a very light rain shower at 7:06pm. No thunder or lightning was observed with this activity. Snowpack is gone. |
| 2025-04-20 | 7:00 AM | T | T | NA | T | NA | | Occasional light snow showers and flurries yesterday morning ending just before noon as light graupel. Overcast remained most of the day and began to break up during the 3:00pm hour with the sun coming out around 4:00pm. Mostly cloudy skies remained. Trace of ice in the gauge catch from the precipitation that melted. Snowboard is covered in frost only this morning. Trace of snowpack remains in shaded areas. |
| 2025-04-19 | 7:00 AM | 0.08 | 1.1 | 0.11 | 1.0 | 0.11 | | Tiny graupel continued after observation yesterday until around 8:30am with precipitation ending. Small graupel started again late morning then changed to light snow in the early afternoon with snow beginning to stick to the grass mid-afternoon. Hourly snowpack measurements from the snowboard are: 7:00pm 0.7", 8:00pm 0.7", 9:00pm 0.8" and 10:00pm 1.0". There was no thunder and winds were light from the NNE. Doppler indicates little to no further accumulation after midnight. Unknown time when precipitation ended. Old snowpack was a trace. |
| 2025-04-18 | 7:00 AM | T | T | NA | T | NA | | Walking to the gauge catch this morning for the 7:00am observation, heard tiny pellets hitting my coat. Looked in large gauge catch and found tiny white graupel about 1mm in diameter at the bottom. Just a trace amount observed. No precipitation observed yesterday. |
| 2025-04-17 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | |
| 2025-04-16 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Weak convective activity mostly to our south and southeast. Gusty outflow winds during the 5:00pm hour with no precipitation observed. Removed dead fly from gauge catch this morning. |
| 2025-04-15 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | |
| 2025-04-14 | 7:00 AM | 0.06 | T | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Returned home around 5:00pm and felt sporadic small raindrops on my skin. This was barely perceptible. Measurable precipitation began after 9:30pm with a mixture of rain and graupel. Doppler was indicating moderate precipitation at 9:30pm. Checked outside to confirm and it was very light precipitation. This increased in intensity around 10:00pm. Observed lightning through the window blinds at 10:08 and subsequent thunder was indicative of cloud to ground lightning. Doppler did indicate this convective cell to our SE. Precipitation mixture increased to moderate intensity. However, accumulation did not go beyond a trace due to the warm ground. Doppler indicates precipitation ended around 10:20pm. Placed the gauge catch funnel on top to eliminate any evaporation from the breezy conditions. Graupel was just over a 1/16" in diameter. Precipitation times are approximate. Surface of topsoil is barely damp this morning. Surprisingly, precipitation in gauge catch is liquid with no ice but the bird bath has a thin layer of ice. |
| 2025-04-13 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Yesterday was a beautiful day. SW winds did not increase until later in the afternoon. |
| 2025-04-12 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Dead insect at bottom of gauge catch. Mountain wave clouds this morning. |
| 2025-04-11 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | |
| 2025-04-10 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | |
| 2025-04-09 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | |
| 2025-04-08 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Starting to warm up. Found small spider in bottom of gauge catch. |
| 2025-04-07 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Old snowpack is gone. |
| 2025-04-06 | 7:00 AM | T | T | NA | T | NA | | Snow flurries continued yesterday morning and ended in the early afternoon with no measurable snowpack. Gauge catch is dry. However, there is a trace of snow against the north wall of the RV garage. Ground is frozen this morning. |
| 2025-04-05 | 7:00 AM | 0.01 | T | NA | T | NA | | Snow flurries began around 4:30pm and became light snow showers after 5:00pm. Unknown duration of precipitation. Snowboard and grass have a trace of snowpack. Gauge catch has a light coating of rime ice on the north face. Ground is frozen this morning. |
| 2025-04-04 | 7:00 AM | T | T | NA | T | NA | | Snow flurries began around 9:58am yesterday. Very light occasional snow showers/flurries began around 10:25am continuing through the afternoon with no visible accumulation. Unknown duration of snow. Gauge catch is dry this morning. There is one old snow drift remaining from earlier in the year. |
| 2025-04-03 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | NA | | Most of the snowpack from snow yesterday morning was gone by 1:00pm. Trace of snow remains in some shaded areas. Ground is frozen this morning. |
| 2025-04-02 | 7:00 AM | 0.09 | 1.4 | 0.10 | 1.5 | 0.10 | | Occasional snow flurries yesterday afternoon with no measurable precipitation. Doppler indicates moderate snow bands during the early morning hours ending around 5:00am. Snowpack appears to have minimal wind influence during precipitation event. Trace of old snow remains as one snowdrift on north side of trees. |
| 2025-04-01 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | NA | | Returned yesterday and reinstalled the gauge catch. |
| 2025-01-11 | 6:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | NA | | Warm and bright sunshine all day yesterday. Snowpack depleted to about 30% coverage with mostly snowdrifts remaining. |
| 2025-01-10 | 7:00 AM | 0.02 | NA | NA | 1.0 | 0.10 | | Near blizzard conditions at times yesterday morning. Deepest snowdrift estimate is about 3.0 feet. Average snowpack depth around the yard taking ten non-drifted samples was 0.9". Peak winds gusted to around 50mph from the north. Trace of old snowpack remains. Unable to accurately measure new snowfall due to severely drifted snow and snowboard is blown clean. Snowdrifts are densely packed from the strong winds. Snowfall subsided in the early afternoon and ended by mid-afternoon. |
| 2025-01-09 | 7:00 AM | 0.01 | NA | NA | 1.5 | 0.10 | | Tranquil but cold day yesterday. We did manage to get above freezing for a bit during the afternoon. Strong cold front passed through earlier this morning with north winds gusting to 37mph. Consequently, the evenly distributed snowpack is now history as the new and old snowpack has blown into drifts. Unable to measure new snowfall but did get an average of new and old snowpack of 1.4". Doppler is indicating steady snowfall up on the Palmer Ridge and this undulates south from time to time providing us snow showers. |
| 2025-01-08 | 7:00 AM | 0.04 | 1.0 | 0.05 | 2.0 | 0.16 | | Steady light snow continued yesterday after 7:00am observation and continued until about 10:10am then became snow showers at 10:35. This increased in intensity at 10:45. Then increased to moderate snow approaching 11:00am for just a few minutes. After 11:00, precipitation became mostly snow flurries and ended around 12:30pm. Sampled snowboard and measured 1.0" of new snow with a SWE of 0.05". Sun managed to peek through the overcast from time to time in the afternoon. This caused settling of old and new snow from a peak accumulation of 2.5" to 2.0" this morning. During the late afternoon or evening there was evidence of an additional trace of very light fluffy snow. This did not affect snow measurements. |
| 2025-01-07 | 7:00 AM | 0.10 | 1.5 | 0.11 | 1.5 | 0.11 | | First snow shower began around 7:20pm with a light dusting of dry snow. Doppler indicates bulk of the snow occurred after midnight. Went outside for 7:00am observation at 6:58am and it was not snowing. Light snow began on my way to gauge catch at 6:59am and continued through the 7:00am observation activity. Trace of old snow drifts remain. There was no wind associated with the snowfall so far. As a result, new snowpack is evenly distributed and easy to measure from snowboard. |
| 2025-01-06 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | NA | | Old snowdrifts remain. |
| 2025-01-05 | 7:00 AM | T | T | NA | T | NA | | Trace of new snow on ground, snowboard and gauge catch. Old snowdrifts remain. Snowfall likely occurred between 10:00pm and midnight as Doppler was painting snow showers in our area. |
| 2025-01-04 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | NA | | Old snowdrifts remain. |
| 2025-01-03 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | NA | | Old snowdrifts from November storm remain. |
| 2025-01-02 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | NA | | Trace of recent snow and old snow remain. There is no new snow. |
| 2025-01-01 | 7:00 AM | T | 0.5 | 0.01 | 0.5 | 0.01 | | Very light precipitation began in the early evening. Unknown start time. At 9:00pm, noticed top of metal handrail on deck had a coating of rime ice. Accumulating light fluffy snow began around 9:15pm and continued until about 12:15am. Measured snow on snowboard at 10:51pm indicating 0.4" during light snowfall. Measured snowpack again around midnight indicating 0.5" with snow flurries precipitating. Trace of old snowpack remains. |