May 6, 2026 After the Storm and on the Generac
The storm lasted for about 27 hours, which is how we get large amounts of snow. We never get anything like the incredible foot an hour lake effect snow (which Martin, for some strange reason, really wants to see in person) because these storms have to travel a long way to get here, so they’re not really that intense. They have to last for a long time to deliver this much snow. Scroll down to the bottom to see how much water we got!
It’s now 7:35 AM and it’s still snowing! The hummers are still going too!
It’s 8:10 AM and we’ve got no internet. Bill’s going up the clean off the dish.
Bill came back down and warmed up when he saw how bad things were. This was shot at 8:40 AM. Bill had to shovel his way to the dish, all the way across the house from the stairs, 111 feet!
It’s now 9:51 PM and the storm is finally over!
This storm covered most of Colorado. We probably got about 14”, but it was melting a lot at the start.
We were on the Generac from about 8:30 AM until 12:43 PM, PVREA had to replace some downed lines.
As you can see, the weather station was recording precipitation starting at about 10:00 AM 5/5/2026 and it kept recording until about 3:15 PM, which was when the snow stopped melting and then, today, the snow in the rain gauge bucket started melting once the clouds cleared off a bit after noon. We got a total of 0.69 inches of precipitation!
The storm was big enough to bring us just barely out of setting low snow records. The SNOTEL (SNOw TELemetry) data goes back to 1987.