Another fast, early melt in the southern mountains
Russ Schumacher As we’ve covered in previous posts, the peak snowpack in Colorado’s mountains generally looked pretty decent this year, with the amount of water stored in the snow peaking pretty close…
An impressive April windstorm
Colorado is a windy place (although generally not quite as windy as our neighbors to the north in Wyoming). And April is typically a windy month: in much of Colorado…
How has Front Range snowstorm forecasting advanced since March 2003?
For those who were on Colorado’s Front Range in 2003, the epic snowstorm in mid-March likely still holds a place in your memory. This was the biggest snowstorm on record…
Colorado mountain snowpack in 2024 so far: decent, fine, ok
We spend a lot of time thinking about snow in our mountains, because Colorado is a headwaters state, and the water stored in that snowpack ends up serving ecosystems, farms,…
The mid-January 2024 cold blast in context
In mid-January 2024, it got brutally cold across Colorado. The lowest temperatures were on the morning of January 16th, and the map of low temperatures from CoAgMET shows a lot…
Does 80% of Colorado’s precipitation really fall west of the Continental Divide?
For our inaugural post, we’ll take a deep dive into a question that we get asked pretty regularly, and that can cause a fair bit of confusion. (These are the…
How strong was the January 2024 cold front?
We are still testing some things out in the setup of the blog, so we’ll consider this post a “soft launch” that can help with working out bugs as well.…
Welcome!
Welcome to the Colorado Climate Center’s blog! We are always monitoring Colorado’s weather and climate, and sometimes social media, webinars, and other venues aren’t quite the right place to share…