Where I ask, is Al Gore when you need him?!?
Posted on 06/26/2019 2:00:33 AM PDT by Windflier
On summer's opening day, up to 20 inches of snow buried the high terrain of the Colorado Rockies, boosting the state's snowpack to extraordinary levels for the time of year.
The solstice flakes marked a continuation of a snowy stretch that began in January and February and lingered through spring. Even before the solstice snow, The Denver Post wrote, the state's snowpack was "in virtually every numerical sense . . . off the charts." At the time, the snowpack was 751 percent above normal.
Due to the new snow Friday into the weekend, the Natural Resources Conservation Service reported that the state's snowpack ballooned to 4,121 percent above normal as of Monday. This number is so high because ordinarily very little snow is left by late June, and cold temperatures late into the spring helped preserve what fell earlier.
After the weekend blanket of white, the scenes in the high country west of Denver resembled midwinter. Enough snow fell to close roads, while many ski areas reported accumulation, including Breckenridge, Vail, Beaver Creek, Arapahoe Basin and Steamboat Springs.
At Steamboat, snow stakes showed up to around 20 inches Saturday. CNN wrote that the last time this area witnessed snow this late in the season was June 17, 1928. It averages just 0.1 inches in June and normally sees its last day of snow around May 6.
At Arapahoe Basin, so much snow has fallen since the winter that it has stayed opened for skiing on weekends through the month. It declared Saturday a powder day after a fresh coating of two inches. The resort plans to open again next weekend and possibly over the July 4 weekend, its blog says.
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This particular climate effect is most certainly man-made. Liberalism is manufacturing such a continuous stream of snowflakes that winter is now year-round as a result. Therefore, I propose that liberals each do their part to reduce their stupidity footprint in order to save the planet.
By August you’ll read the headlines as everyone freezes to death -— Warmest summer in 5,000,000,000 years
One of our daughters lives in Leadville, CO, elevation 10,200ft. She said that they’ve had several recent avalanches, including one that buried 4 or 5 cars on the road to Fresno/Breckenridge.
Thankfully, other motorists were able to help the occupants get out and no one was hurt.
Snow isn’t the only thing that dumps on Colorado.
lol
I’ve not read nor seen a climate related event that seemed so UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE unless something was terribly wrong or the climate had indeed changed drastically to make me give global nonsense a second thought.
It starts snowing in July here in NYC for a sustained period of time, I’ll be all ears.
Until then, it’s just weather. Some unique things occur every year.
The flooding will be catastrophic and then the droughts will kill us all, in about 11.5 years./ sarc
If global warming gets much worse, we’ll be covered in snow year round.
Or an AOC maximum event.
Where I ask, is Al Gore when you need him?!?
Lots of cloud seeding during winter. Then a bunch of cold wet spring events. 200 cloud seeding stations to get more snow during winter.
Was Al Gore scheduled to give a speech there or something?
It snowed on me near Golden, CO on May 15th or 16th.
Drove through Leadville and saw their high school football field. Wondered how much oxygen they go through in a season.
But I guess living there all your life is different than visiting from a sea level lifestyle.
the great thing about this is that it will help refill lake meade and lake powell
Not really. Maybe three or four years back to back like this might start the process
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Some idiot is unable to do math. It is not 4,121 above normal.
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