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Originally Posted by Cambium
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Yup. mid 60s 2 days ago to heavy snow tonight.
Posting this here since I know most of you don't click the winter thread. Thought someone might find it useful.
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Originally Posted by denverian
Snow has begun here in Denver (in the city)... they're predicting something like 6 - 12", depending on elevation. Saturday was in the 60s and I wore shorts!
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Just was watching TWC and saw a pretty cool segment showing how terrain plays a role in Colorado.
Aside from the terrain and the 10,000' + peaks west of Denver which increase lift which means more moisture is rung out of the atmosphere... they talked about the winds.
Surface(low level) winds are going to be from the East across central and Eastern Colorado, but winds along the front range will be from the north.
This is a current map. You can see the winds behind the range right now from the North, in a few hours those north winds will be in front of the range. This creates a "Barrier Jet" against the East winds which is another way to squeeze out more moisture and drop it as snow.
Good stuff! Thank God for TWC and online videos.
If it wasn't for the mountains you wouldn't get that Barrier to happen which gives you that lift up into the atmosphere and obviously it wouldn't have been as much snow if the terrain was flatter where winds would just flow across easier.
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