It’s expected to be a white-out blizzard, 60mph winds, with 10 inches of snow or better, beginning with freezing rain. Its not just the usual rockymountain snow.
I learned many years ago that Colorado has only 3 seasons...July, August and winter.
Seriously though, white out bluzzards can be killers along the front range. People have lost their bearings and died.
There’s nothing on those plains to slow down that wind and blowing snow. A three inch blizzard can leave 20 foot drifts. I’ve seen houses burried from the roof down.
Even snow plows have to stop in some areas because the road will be so badly buried they can’t even find it anymore in combination with white out ahere you can’t see beyond the nose of the truck.
These bad blizzards aren’t the norm even in Colorado. They happen, but not frequently. Snow into June...yes. But these bomb blizzards are a horse of a different color.
If you watch the weather, it IS a cyclonic storm pattern.
The normal snow storm isn’t.
Yes, its normal to have 70 degrees one day and a good snow storm the next. It warms up again, and then it snows again. Thats a different thing from these cyclonic blizzards.
I'm sorry but, yes, it is the norm here. I've lived here for 64 years and seen this over and over again. Having grown up on the eastern side of Denver I am quite familiar with what storms on the plains are like.
If you watch the weather, it IS a cyclonic storm pattern.
Yes, and there is nothing new about that or the term "bomb cyclone." That is a meteorological term that has been around for decades. It's just new for it to be used by TV weather casters.