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Ok, I just saw this and I love it! According to our local office of the National Weather Service:

“The greatest snow storm in Denver weather history occurred during December 1st through December 6th of 1913. The bulk of the snowfall occurred on December 4th and 5th. 45.7 inches was recorded for the entire snow event. This kind of brings our last several snow storms into prospective! ”

Definitely check out the great (and very funny) pictures from the storm that they have posted here: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bou/?n=1913_denver_winter_storm

This is another shot from the canyon last weekend. Liv was digging for something interesting under the snow. She usually looks like this when she’s outside these days.

Exotic patterns on my garage window this morning. It’s that cold out.

Even though the Poudre River was pretty much entirely frozen over, it was still beautiful when I was out snowshoeing yesterday.

Had an inadvertent adventure in the Poudre Canyon today when I got my truck stuck in the snow, and I was all by myself. After about 45 minutes of digging and rocking I managed to drive out of the drift. I did destroy one floor mat and Mark’s yoga mat, but hey, I got myself out!

I had been hoping to maybe get some pictures of big horn sheep in the canyon when I went up this morning. And I did see lots, and lots, of fresh tracks in the snow, but no actual wildlife. So, I came home with pictures of pretty snow covered trees and mountainsides, and a few of the dog, but no sheep.

Found this guy hanging out by one of the few bits of open water left in Ft. Collins last week. I was really surprised to see a actual wild bald eagle less than a half mile from my house! Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get any of the great close-ups that I’ve gotten on other birds, because this eagle was on private, fenced off, property. I think I saw another bald eagle in a tree behind this one, but she was just too far away to shoot. I’ll keep an eye out for them though, maybe I’ll find them on some of the surrounding public land someday.

While St. Louis is getting a heck of an ice storm, we’ve gotten another couple inches of snow in the last day or so. It would be nice if we could get back to our usual sunny and dry weather for a typical January. I doubt that’s going to happen any time soon though. This is a shot I took of the moon yesterday, just before it was swallowed up by these thick snow storm clouds.

So, I think the models missed this one by quite a bit. Until this afternoon, the temperatures below this cold front weren’t supposed to get below freezing. It was just going to be a heavy rain event. Well, now, as you can see below, the NWS forecasters in St. Louis are calling for a “crippling Ice Storm” and CNN is predicting it is “threatening chaos”.

Well, whatever it turns out to be, I have enlisted the help of a guest Blogger On The Scene, Kevin T, to help bring you the story as it unfolds! Check back for more reports!