Mhm Hi everybody. Well th
tail end of our snow seas
the I 25 front range area
anywhere from september t
of june but I remember on
june getting a skiff of s
decades of forecasting he
back at our snow season.
in september very little
and almost through decemb
couple of days of decembe
really good snow and then
So for the season it look
with 47.1 inches, which w
inches below average. Now
out sooner as climate cha
gets warmer. And we're se
peak of our snowpack, it
right around the first pa
it's about 3 to 4 weeks e
that much faster because
spring and that's a conce
But let's talk about May
the Denver area, it reall
from what can still be a
we do get snows in the mo
several inches to our fir
with large hail, damaging
so May can still have sno
severe storms, hail and t
to be ready for a wild ri
some of our big severe we
in the second half of May
in the month of May was w
inches of snow. The avera
month is 1.5 the heaviest
There's 8.57 inches and I
that because in 18 76 tha
we've ever had in any sin
area. 2.16 is the average
May 26th, 1940 to 95 degr
19 degrees. The averages
at 65 on the first, get u
The average lows 38 on th
31st. But the old adage i
garden before Mother's Da
date for that last freeze
10th to 12th of May. So M
begin to get some big one
in intensity throughout t
threats become lightning
large hail, heavy rain ac
a bigger threat by the mi
we can start to get those
and you've got to be real
some of your flash flood
an area with an unknown d
even six inches of water
off its feet, a foot of w
off in 18 inches can take
truck. If you're hiking,
immediately in our canyon
Remember lightning is a h
summertime. It's our bigg
in colorado. If you can h
lightning is close enough
Now this year, a La Nina
hanging out that's cooler
out in the equatorial pac
drive the jet stream more
That's what we've been ha
why it's been so windy an
flow favors the northern
brings more wind on the p
going to see that pattern
upcoming late spring and
monitor continues to show
drought. Across the west,
across the eastern part o
we're not in great shape
melts going out quicker a
is not favorable for the
too much of the summer se
gonna have a lot of fire
up not only in this month
the summer we have the wi
conditions and while the
temperatures and we've be
climate change with globa
increase in carbon dioxid
of fossil fuels, we're se
as the years trend And we
in fire weather days, whi
hot, dry, windy days, an
Colorado and most of the
outlook, this is the curr
warmer than average, the
weather continues off to
of us and unfortunately d
conditions expected as we
news for the summer, seas
than average here. And re
United States colder than
like the drier than avera
going to continue here wi
average, where they don't
the Ohio Valley and headi
have a good month of may
and stay tuned to Denver
weather threatens, I'm mi