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Huh. I expected Denver would good at handling huge snowstorms. How fast did NYC open up after this year's 27-30" storm?
No, Denver is horrible when it snows. I work from home if there's any remote threat of snow. It seems like they only have 10 plows for the entire city or something. Part of it is the fact that the sun is strong here, and it rarely stays below freezing for very long, so they just count on letting it all melt.
Only 3 other times Denver had more snow then they had yesterday. In 134 years of records yesterday was the 4th snowiest March day. (midnight to midnight)
El Nino years commonly bring very heavy snow events to Denver.
Only 3 other times Denver had more snow then they had yesterday. In 134 years of records yesterday was the 4th snowiest March day. (midnight to midnight)
NOWData has the snowfall listed as 13.1 inches of snow and 0.49 inches of water equivalent precipitation. So snow to water ratios were still rather high, 26:1. Boulder, 16.4 inches of snow and 2.4 inches of precipitation. Wheat Ridge, 16 inches of snow, 0.65 inches of precipitation. What's with the ratio difference? Did Boulder get rain mixed in or was it just wetter snow there?
Certain spring feeling, blooming has begun... and there's salt on the highways leftover from the weekend.. odd juxtaposition. Need some rain to wash it away
El Nino years commonly bring very heavy snow events to Denver.
Warmer Pacific and an Active Sub Tropical Jet = more moisture flowing into the cold air. I showed a graph of areas that get above normal snows during El Ninos, there was quite a few in the U.S. NYC will hold that true again. Hartford will not however. In fact, it might be the 1st El Nino winter Hartford was below normal. Have to check! Thanks for the idea and reminder!
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NOWData has the snowfall listed as 13.1 inches of snow and 0.49 inches of water equivalent precipitation. So snow to water ratios were still rather high, 26:1. Boulder, 16.4 inches of snow and 2.4 inches of precipitation. Wheat Ridge, 16 inches of snow, 0.65 inches of precipitation. What's with the ratio difference? Did Boulder get rain mixed in or was it just wetter snow there?
Thanks for the reminder! Sorry I forgot.. Boulder's site is offline today but here is the hourly OBS. Yes, they got rain first so that includes the rain. But I show for yesterdays date 3/23/16 they got 1.18" of precip and 0.64" of that was rain. So 0.54" in form of snow. That sounds like a little and too high of a ratio at 30:1?
Here is a list of snow totals. Scroll down. What do they mean "estimated using 8:1 ratios". Does that mean those sites were recording qpf amounts but not snow so they estimated the snow total based on 8:1 ratios??
Check out these 2 tweets. I think for different areas of Colorado. One area 14:1, another heavy and wet 6:1!
WOW! Thousands caught off guard and stranded because forecasts had shown 3-6" only and those areas ended up getting 15-32 inches! Big Bust!
31.6" on 2.80 liquid = 11:1 ratios. Not sure what elevation PineCliffe is at but doesn't sound like dry mountain snow. Normal.
Denver showing 0.49" liquid with 13.1" snow? Some of that was drizzle at first I thought. But that's some high ratios there. Dry fluffy snow for Denver? Pictures didn't seem like it and I thought I saw some tweets saying it was wet. Maybe down lower?
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