| 2026-05-12 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Everything is responding quickly to all the precipitation we recently had, greeni greening up fast nd growing more than I’ve seen many of y grden plants grow since being planted years ago. It’s so odd, but it seems that hvi g so much fi come down gently and via snow, allowing much more deep infiltration, has made such a huge difference. I worry now that so much new growth may be hard to sustain given an expectation of a very long, hot, and possibly very dry growing season. Imayneed to severe.y trim plants back to keep their water needs in check unless rain co ti use to come in good amounts. But significant, possibly record-breaking heat is ready expected all week. |
| 2026-05-11 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-05-10 | 8:00 AM | 0.21 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | An unexpected bonus rain event! It began raining very lightly with big drops on and off from about 17:45 til about 18:45 or so. But the real event must have come after dark. We were unaware—asleep. According to radar, bands of rain came through repeatedly from about 22:00 or 23:00 to about 3:00 or 4:00. Radar archives made it look as though heaviest rain came through at least twice, once around 23:00 and again around 00:00. When I woke at 6:00, it was clear.
Nice soaking rain on top of what we had last week is such a relief!!!! |
| 2026-05-09 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-05-08 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-05-04 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-05-03 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-05-02 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-05-01 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-30 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-29 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-28 | 8:00 AM | 0.37 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Oh happy day! Lots of rain. It started with a mere sprinkle around 3:30, then stopped, then it began sprinkling on and off agin around 5:30 and by about 6:00 pm it had begun raining lightly but somewhat steadily, growing more steady as the next two hours passed until it was too dark to see. According to radar, it rained on and off all night, and radar makes it look as if it may continue on and off today. As of this data entry, however, the rain has stopped. In preparation for being away for 11 days, I watered heavily over the last two days, believing that once again the forecasters would miss the mark in the wrong direction from high percent chance of rain to fat chance. But this time it went the other way around with much more than projected 20-50% chance. But I’m glad I wanted well because the soil had become hydrophobic, nd having watered will have lowed much more of the rain to do some good at the roots of things! And I won’t worry so much bout fire while away. |
| 2026-04-27 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-26 | 8:00 AM | T | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Another whopping disappointment!!!!!!!!! Not a single drop in the gauge. At some point before dawn, there was a misty foggy drizzle resulting in partial wetness on the wood deck and picnic table, and even extremely surficial soil dampness, but that was it! Fog/mist lifted by about 10-11, and even some sun peeked out at exactly the time earlier forecasts said was the time of our greatest chance of rain! FAT CHANCE! |
| 2026-04-25 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-24 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-23 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-22 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-21 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-20 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-19 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-18 | 8:00 AM | T | 0.2 | T | 0.0 | 0.00 | | What a big disappoint,ent! Day by day the predicted mount of precipitation here diminished, and then finally ended up being almost nothing. It snowed big wet flakes for bout 1/2 hour or so before tapering on and off with very light, barely visible snow. The soil wasn’t even even dampened!! |
| 2026-04-17 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-16 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-15 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-14 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-13 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-12 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-11 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-10 | 8:00 AM | T | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | There was nothing in the gauge this morning, but the gauge did get wet yesterday. There were two very brief squallish showers yesterday, one at about 4:00pm for a couple of minutes, and one at about 6:00pm that lasted more like 5-10 minutes. The first shower resulted in apparent drops on hard surfaces but didn’t totally wet anything. The second lasted long enough that, for example, our wood deck did become completely wet. The wind blew during both showers, possibly explaining the lack of even a trace of water in the gauge. So disappointing! Hoping for more significant rain today or tonight! |
| 2026-04-09 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-08 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-07 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-06 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-05 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-04 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-03 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-02 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-01 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-23 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | This ongoing trend of total lack of precip and hot dry windy weather is becoming very frightening! Fires are cropping up here and there, often due to powerlines taken down by trees falling in these howling windstorms, and way too close for comfort. Massive fires are burning in Nebraska! I have never heard of wildland fires in Nebraska before! Colorado cities re starting to talk about implementing watering restrictions. |
| 2026-03-22 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-21 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-20 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-19 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-18 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-17 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-16 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-15 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-14 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-13 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-12 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-11 | 8:00 AM | 0.02 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | It sprinkled lightly briefly. What a disappointment! |
| 2026-03-10 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-09 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-08 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-07 | 8:00 AM | 0.02 | T | T | NA | NA | | Although it continued to snow and rain mix throughout much of yesterday morning, not much more moisture accumulated after I had collected our gauge accumulation at our out-of-normal hour of 10:30am yesterday. It more or less tapered off by mid day, although it stopped and started a few times briefly after about 12:30-1pm. By evening, nearly all the accumulated snow had melted except in shaded and other spots where accumulations were able to add up a bit more (minor topographic snow traps) due to a bit of drifting with the wind while it snowed. Therefore, additional accumulation in the snow pack wasn’t measurable. Grateful for the moisture, but so disappointed that there won’t be any snow ground cover to last. Hoping the story is different in the foothills of the Front Range. |
| 2026-03-06 | 10:30 AM | 0.20 | 2.5 | 0.26 | 2.5 | 0.26 | | Not sure when the snow began, but real-time rap radar archive shows it began here with some flurries around midnight and then in earnest by about 12:30-1am. (When I got up at 6:30am, there was the most snow accumulation I saw for the rest of the dayeven though it kept coming down heavily for a few more hours before tapering on and off, sometimes heavy sometimes not at all, until about 1pm because it was melting almost as fast as it was coming down during the daytimes hours.) it was still snowing pretty well by 8:00am, and unfortunately I was rushing to make a 7:50am appointmen, so I didn’t have time to check the gauge until 10:30 this morning. So today’s catch is 2.5 hrs off my normal collection time of 8:00am and an unknown amount of the moisture came down after 8:00am. There is no end time end time because the precip continued to fall throughout much of yesterday morning and into the early afternoon and the added amount will be recorded in tomorrow’s record. There was 2.5” of snow on our snowboard at 7:30am (I had just enough time to at least do that), and the core sample (at 10:30am) produced 0.26” of water; however, the rain gauge had a bit less water than that, so it seems the snow must have been somewhat wind-driven, partially bypassing the gauge opening. This was borne out when examining objects outside, which were coated with snow to the windward side. It’s unclear how long the snow was heaviest, given that most of the accumulation came overnight, but based on radar archives in Real-time rap, it was from 4:00am-ish to about 9:00 or 10:00 am-ish. |
| 2026-03-05 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-04 | 8:00 AM | 0.06 | 0.0 | 0.00 | NA | NA | | At 8:25am, it began to rain again, this time a bit harder than it did just before 8:00am (in yesterday’s record), but it tapered off to a light rain around 8:40am. Then it sprinkled again from about 4:00-4:30pm. That was it. Not anywhere near the 0.25” of rain forecast! So disappointing! |
| 2026-03-03 | 8:00 AM | T | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | It rained lightly for a few minutes around 7:45 this morning, but it wasn’t enough for a gauge catch to be more than a trace. It did fully wet the wood deck. It looks like more May be coming. I hope the predictions of 0.25-0.5” of rain comes to fruition! Plants have awakened weeks ago and some are pushing out leaves! |
| 2026-03-02 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-01 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-28 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-27 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-26 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | This unending drought, extremely warm temps, and horrific winds and total lack of winter here is terrifying. Wildfires, 3 in the last 10 days, are happening in February! I cringe to think what all this means for fire this summer!one huge gust of wind yesterday blew down a new trellis I set up last summer. It’s a dust owl, as farmers keep unwittingly plowing their fields bare, despite research that shows its unnecessary and bad for soil health. The loose soils are just headed for Kansas! |
| 2026-02-25 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-24 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-23 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-22 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-21 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-20 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-19 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-18 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Ugh, an enormous grass fire is raging out near the central CO/KS border. It’s nearly 300,000 acres. This drought has become very scary! |
| 2026-02-17 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-16 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-15 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-14 | 8:00 AM | 0.02 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | I’m not exactly sure when it rained. It was after dark and before 9:3m. It might have rained again n the wee hours of the night. Unsure. |
| 2026-02-13 | 8:00 AM | T | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | I was in town away from the house when it began to sprinkle, and that was about 6:00pm or so. When I got home about 6:30, it was still spitting, but not for long. It amounted to no useful moisture! |
| 2026-02-12 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-11 | 9:30 AM | T | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Yesterday morning as I left for Denver at about 9:00am, it began to flurry as a little squall came off the foothills. It couldn’t have amounted to anything because there was no sign of snow on the ground when I got home after dark. Not sure what happened overnight or early this morning, but the deck was too wet this morning for it to have been dew, and I don’t think it was from the previous day’s little squall because it would have been evident yesterday evening. It must have flurried again or briefly showered in the night or early morning today. I overslept this morning and by the time I got up, if there was any ice or snow, it was long melted. I put down the 9:00-9:20 times for the flurry I know happened yesterday morning, but the channel 9 weather news at10:15pm yesterday evening said it was flurrying in Fort Collins, but when I looked outside, I saw no precip falling and the deck was dry. So maybe there was another tiny shower or flurry last evening or early this morning before I got up. I see no other Fort Collins reports with a trace report indicating precip at times other than yesterday morning about the time Ilnew it flurried here. So, maybe, if it flurried or rained again, it happened after 7:00 or 8:00am this morning after reports were in? |
| 2026-02-10 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-09 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-08 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-07 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-06 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-05 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-04 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-03 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-02 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-01 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | NA | | The only remaining snow is in shade and our shelterbelt, where there was drifting and a few spots of snow are still there. Just about any other patch of snow melted off yesterday, and today’s predicted high of nearly 60º will probably finish off the last ones. |
| 2026-01-31 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | NA | | The only remaining g snow is in shade or pir shelterbelt, where there was drifting. |
| 2026-01-30 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | NA | | Only remaining snow is where it drifted or is in shade. There was a fair amount of drifting in our shelterbelt. |
| 2026-01-29 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | NA | | The remaining snow is in shade, pir shelterbelt, and in the Lee of shrubs and things, because there was drifting. |
| 2026-01-28 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 1.0 | NA | | I’m so sorry that I’ve not had time this week to measure snowpack, but I will say not much is left. And most of it, as always, is either in shady spots or, because the recent storm had some wind with it, in the Lee of shrubs, trees, etc.So, depth ranges from mostly zero to maybe 1-2 inches in a few places, so I estimate an average of 1” because some spots already look bare. This is not an actual measurement. |
| 2026-01-27 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 1.5 | NA | | This is a crazy week, so I’ve not had time to measure snowpack or SWE.Not a lot has melted but I’d say it’s down to 1.5”. |
| 2026-01-26 | 8:00 AM | 0.13 | 2.2 | 0.13 | 2.2 | 0.23 | | Glad to see the ground actually covered this time! But a lot more would have been nice!Not sure why the core had more water than the gauge… wind? We didn’t have a lot, but some for sure, |
| 2026-01-25 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 1.2 | 0.07 | | Too cold for any melting. Still a light coating of snow on most of the ground. |
| 2026-01-24 | 8:00 AM | 0.06 | 1.3 | 0.07 | 1.3 | 0.07 | | It continued(from yesterday) to snow all day,but with hardly any accumulation, as the snow was superfine and barely sifting down. It did pick up a bit just before dark around 4:30pm. I don’t know when it stopped snowing, but I’m guessing it was mid evening. This is a real guess, not based on any actual information other than assuming by snow depth and the rate of accumulation at dark that it could not have snowed much longer than another 1-5 hours. |
| 2026-01-23 | 8:00 AM | 0.01 | 0.1 | 0.01 | 0.1 | 0.01 | | It was snowing very very lightly when I got up at 7:30. Not sure when it started, probably around 6-6:30 am given the rate at which it’s sifting down, but radar showed no snow occurring even as it was coming down, so apparently it was too light to register on radar, but a skim of snow had accumulated on grass, stone, driveway rock/pad, sidewalk, deck, etc. There were still traces of snow from the last minor snow event in shadowy areas as well before the snow started. Again, it covered probably less than 1% of our 12 acres—only on the front and back lawns where aun doesn’t shine and in various spots of our shelterbelt. Light snow was falling at measurement time, so there is no end time on this record, and snow is projected to come on and off for the next few days. Very very cold (5º) and not expected to warm up much all week, with projected highs ranging from 12-45, and lows 2-18, so if we get a true accumulation, it may stick around for a while. |
| 2026-01-22 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | NA | | There is still some snow on our back lawn and a tad on the front where the sun doesn’t shine, and there are a few patches in our shelterbelt. Of pir 12 acres, I’m sure the area covered is <1%. |
| 2026-01-21 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | There are still skims of snow in Shady spots, but I, guessing it’s less than 1% of our 12 acres. |
| 2026-01-20 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Was unable to measure “snowpack” today, but it did not precipitate agin on the last 24 hours. Almost no snow was lef where sun hit it yesterday, and in the shade there was some still left, probably <1”. If there is any snow remaining on the snowboard tomorrow morning, I will measure it then. |
| 2026-01-19 | 8:00 AM | 0.09 | 2.0 | 0.11 | 2.0 | 0.11 | | It began snowing lightly just before 10:0m last night. Not sure when it stopped, but local weather indicated it would stop at3:00am. I suspect it was earlier than that based on how much had already fallen (probably about 1”)by 11:3m. |
| 2026-01-18 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-17 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-16 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-15 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-14 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-13 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-12 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-11 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | T | | It has been cold enough that some traces of snow persist in a few shady spots. |
| 2026-01-10 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | T | T | | Essentially the only remaining snow is on the ground as a highly patchy skim of white in very few shaded places and I’m not even sure it, therefore, qualifies for a recording of T for snowpack. The storm was a real bust here in northern Front Range Colorado! |
| 2026-01-09 | 8:00 AM | 0.06 | 0.6 | 0.03 | T | T | | It began snowing very lightly at about 8:00am but wasn’t significant until about 10am. It didn’t snow much for long, and by 1:30 had pretty much ended. Snow was melting as it landed, as the tempt was at or above 32. A little accumulated on the grass and shrubs. By morning, all was gone except in shady areas of grass and on our deck. |
| 2026-01-08 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-07 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-06 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-05 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-04 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-03 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-02 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-01 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |