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Station Number: CO-LR-1238
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Station Name:
Fort Collins 6.5 NNW
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Data Explorer
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| Observation Date |
12/7/2025
8:00 AM
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| Submitted |
12/07/2025 8:01 AM
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Gauge Catch
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Notes
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It reached ~50 degrees by 12:30pm yesterday, melting most of the remaining snow. Shortly after 1pm, a wild wind-driven squall blew in flinging graupel and rain sideways, so little of it landed in the gauge. The precip turned to all rain within about 5 or fewer minutes, then the whole thing was over in less than 10 minutes. The temp had dropped to about 40 after the squall, but the graupel melted right away, and most of the remaining snow on the ground had melted before the end of the day. This morning, the only remaining snowpack was in shady spots, within or leeward of our shelterbetls, and/or where it was piled from shoveling; in exposed sunny spots it was all gone where we have native short grass pasture, and mostly gone in the nonnative crested wheatgrass and smoothie brome pasture. So, the snowpack measurement was achieved by measuring the average depth of remaining shady spot snow, then multiplying it by he estimated % it represented of our 12 acres (a pretty wild guess, given how unevenly snow did or did not remain n the exotic grass pasture). Basically, it left us with no more than a trace overall, though shady spots still have about 1”. |
Snow Information
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24-hr Snowfall 
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24-hr Snowfall SWE
(Snow Water Equivalent)
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24-hr Snowfall SLR
(Snow to Liquid Ratio) |
NA |
| Snowpack Depth |
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Snowpack SWE
(Snow Water Equivalent)
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Snowpack Density |
NA |
Duration Information
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| Precipitation Began |
1:17 PM |
| Precipitation Ended |
1:25 PM |
| Heavy Precip Began |
1:18 PM |
| Heavy Precip Lasted |
2 Minutes
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| Duration Time Accuracy |
Very Accurate
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Additional Information |
| Flooding |
No |
| Additional Data Recorded |
No |
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