From today's Denver Post: "A wetter-than-average winter could be in store for Colorado's high country, said Klaus Wolter, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist. 'Indications point to a winter storm track hitting Colorado from the Northwest, and when that happens, the mountains usually receive above-average moisture in the winter,' said Wolter, who studies weather at the Cooperative Institute for Research and Environmental Science, a joint institute of the University Colorado and NOAA. The Pacific Northwest storm track, however, tends to mean drier than normal conditions for the Front Range and Eastern Plains, Wolter said. 'That storm pattern creates a downslope situation for us, so we tend to get the dry Chinook- type winds sweeping down from the Continental Divide instead of the moisture-laden storms,' Wolter said. 'You just don't get that many wet storms along the Front Range out of that type of weather pattern.'"
Category: Colorado Water
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