62 Days And Counting Without Measurable Snow In Denver

[ProudLib72]

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2017/12/10/62-days-without-snow-in-denver/

DENVER (CBS4) – It’s crazy dry across most of the western United States and for many that means a lack of snow.

The last and only measurable snowfall in Denver this season fell on October 9. That storm brought 2.8″ of snow to the official weather station at Denver International Airport.

It’s one of the least snowy starts to the season in Denver’s recorded weather history and it will be the least snowy if we manage to make it to the end of December with less than an inch of snow.

That's about it for the article, but there is a table with snowfall data to compare.

People, snow is what we derive most of our water from in CO. It snows in the winter, and we use the snowmelt for the rest of the year. This is not good!

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/weather/weather-blogs/snowpack-is-vital-to-colorados-water-supply-as-well-as-to-millions-of-people-who-live-downstream

“If you go to your tap, four out of every five glasses of water you will fill up will have originated as snow,” said hydrologist Keith Musselman of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

What, no snow! And here I was going to bring some to throw in the Senate!

[hibbing]

1. 50 something today in the middle of the country

When I was a kid, I remember winter actually being, like you know, cold. I also remember a whole heck of a lot more snow. I know just anecdotal, but still. I think last year was close to 70 for 3 or 4 days a row in February.

Peace

[ProudLib72]

2. I'm just outside of Denver in the suburbs

Took the dogs for a walk this afternoon and I was wearing shorts and short sleeved t-shirt. I was quite comfortable. I think it was around 60 degrees.

[ellie]

5. I live in Denver

and went running today in shorts and a t-shirt.

[ProudLib72]

12. This seems like a repeat of last year

I'm ok with snow staying in the mountains, just so long as there actually is a snowpack come spring!

[triron]

3. Here in Albuquerque extremely dry since late September.

First moisture since then just a couple days ago and just a trace.
November was record warmth.

[democratisphere]

4. Buffalo would be happy to provide as many feet of the white stuff as they want!

[Igel]

6. I'll worry in March.

I moved to Los Angeles during a drought. It would take years and years to recover.

A year later, we'd recovered.

I moved to Rochester, NY, when large trees were dying because the water table was so depleted. It would take a decade or more to recover.

We got a lot of rain, gradual rain, over the next year. And the experts were silent, except to say that the water table had recovered.

And it would take years--years!--for Harris County, Texas, to recover from the devastating droughts in 2011 or thereabouts. Then the next year we started several flood years and, well, nobody cares that the water table was depleted and the conifers had real trouble staying alive.

Those were actual problems *after* the fact. And the doom-and-gloom folk sort of forgot they'd said anything. When asked in interviews, the experts sort of walked back their claims. Considerably. Just as when the USSR fell after the CIA and best intelligence estimates were it would last 30 years only to have it collapse, with experts trying to claim that they'd left that open as a very real possibility and they were never really confident the USSR would continue.

The idea of declaring defeat before the battle's less than 40% over seems ludicrous. Sells papers. We must all worry, Angst-Fest 2017. Fits the current zeitgeist quite nicely. But since there's little to do but wait, so be it.

[cilla4progress]

7. Dry here in the inland Pacific NW as well

Does not bode well for fire season

[Sophia4]

8. Over 70 during the day in Los Angeles.

No rain all fall. None at all.

[world wide wally]

9. Colorado now seems like its California

And California is burning.
Bring them your snowball, Inhoffe.

[ProudLib72]

11. He's rationing them now

One every five to ten years should suffice to demonstrate how climate change is a hoax.

[Greywing]

10. I live in Denver and am seriously worried.

We truly need the snow ... the sooner the better.

[Rstrstx]

13. Over two days and counting without snow in South Texas (Latitude 26 N)

Until Friday we had gone 4731 days without snow and before that it had been 40,126 days between snowfall events. So basically this is not normal.