Everybody, I'm mike, nels
are, february and it's of
of the year, fortunately
Denver and the high mount
see some really bitter co
to have fewer big snowsto
none in the top 20 of hea
all the way back to 18 82
snows, but typically it i
our kinder winter months,
the fact that we can get
about two inches of preci
that was in february 1934
of precipitation. Now, as
we had 22.4 inches. And l
which is about double the
7.8 eight inches of snow.
cold air, snow, strong, g
and sometimes will get so
but it's a month that gen
as much heavy snows we'll
March and april here are
as far as snow in the mon
had 22.4 inches. And back
we had 20 inches, 1942 a
and 1960 09 and 31 as far
outlook, colder than aver
to hold across the north
average conditions contin
But I think here's the pl
is going to continue, but
that favors that northwes
stream flow, which tends
central Mountains. It's d
so far for this season, a
have great snows over the
which have been good news
lot of fast moving storms
already this winter, a fe
air would be surprised. W
that coming up as far as
still calling for colder
warmer to the south and t
bit drier in the Denver a
that pattern weakening a
we'll actually transition
is the warmer water out i
get into the summer. And
active jet stream. The pa
the mountains are storms,
and we'll get those perio
still in this low nina pa
straight winter, which is
over the pacific ocean. B
beginning to ease off and
to see shifting to warmer
as we head into the rest
those La Nina winters bri
coming in from the northw
been a bit of a hybrid br
rivers coming in from Cal
us more heavy snow, which
dent in our drought. We'r
across much of colorado.
continues in parts of can
states really out of bad
and it's improved greatly
California as well. If yo
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outlook calling for weath
wetter than average over
Great plains, little drye
perhaps a little colder t
across colorado with warm
off to the east of us, 90
to look colder to the nor
to the south end of the e
that slightly drier patte
colorado. So it's been gr
had as much moisture as w
winter. We are seeing win
trending to be warmer acr
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change. All the things th
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to the change we're seein
Extreme precipitation and
and droughts, shrinking s
caps and glaciers and the
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also something that I've
past called arctic amplif
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what that means is, the j
of its speed due to that
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temperature contrast, whe
tends to meander a little
moving river versus a fas
and that can actually all
down into the United Stat
a couple of times this wi
counterintuitive, but wit
you can actually have col
periodically come down ac
states. All these things
to climate change. We see
continues to increase eve
to the burning of fossil
tons of carbon added into
single day from the burni
That carbon dioxide acts
up the planet. And we've
graph from climate centra
to see that warming occur
of carbon dioxide kind of
in a down comforter. We'r
and that traps heat that
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global warming regionally
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