Hi everybody, I'm mike, n
we are in october. Alread
time goes by and that mea
to get their first big sn
ski areas very happy. But
thunderstorms, some that
hail and denver can get b
will be the 25th annivers
blizzard Of the 25th and
I remember that storm ver
wettest October on record
snow and rain over 4" bac
The driest was just a tra
1969 a lot of that came a
of snow and of course in
october as well. That one
22 inches of snow. We can
only, it happened once in
was in 18 92 2 below zero
is the coldest. The avera
the 1st 2 59 on Halloween
the 1st 2 31 degrees on H
october storm threats, yo
hail and heavy rain. We'r
now to snow and the occas
especially as the month g
on here. The top seven sn
1969 was a big 1/30 inche
22.7 in 1906, 25 years ag
had 17.8 and 17.2 in 2009
16.4 and in 1929 16.2. No
we have had some improvem
part of the state is pret
Right now. We could still
on the Northeast Plains,
as bad as other parts of
States where there is a l
to the west and to the so
But as far as the weather
can help us measure how m
we get by becoming a coco
stands for community co c
hail and snow study. And
Kocoras volunteers around
a pad to measure snow, yo
You also get a pad to mea
They'll teach you how to
like to do this. It's a l
have to go to their websi
dot coco roz dot org. Go
Now what's going to happe
Well, this is the third s
we're heading into, Let's
right now with a La Nina.
cousin of El Nino. So it'
in the equatorial pacific
stream flow and generally
in a jet stream that tend
the northwest to the sout
most part favors the nort
over the southern rockies
far as getting storms. An
that a little bit here. Y
that northwesterly flow t
cooler air over the North
to have warmer than avera
but slightly wetter. That
We could certainly use th
in the Great Lakes, Missi
then weather also out on
of the country. But The 9
kind of shows that effect
of that flow going from n
And we tend to be drier w
to the northwest. That's
certainly could use wette
we need to get that snow
with climate change, we'r
been warming. This just g
the trend can be taken ba
we have over 220 differen
at climate central have a
to 1970, we see significa
the west, including Color
and more days above norma
about two weeks more of a
compared to what we had b
there's something that yo
arctic amplification. The
in the far north up near
changing the jet stream p
the less temperature cont
south. When it does that,
of a loopy er jet stream
it may seem counterintuit
pattern can create actual
the jet stream around the
warming of the globe temp
extreme cold that can dro
what we call our arctic a
I have a book for you. Th
Littlest book on climate.
with one of the top clima
world. There's a free dow
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for a while and you can g
on this book, 10 facts an
c. O to have a great mont