Colorado snowpack drops, why experts aren't too concerned yet
Colorado snowpack has dropped below average as of mid-February. Spring snow will make all the difference in how spring run-off looks this year.
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Colorado snowpack has dropped below average as of mid-February. Spring snow will make all the difference in how spring run-off looks this year.
John Stulp was born on the Eastern Plains. Fifty years ago he began farming with his father-in-law near Lamar. Together he and his wife, Jane, brought up five children in southeastern Colorado, raisin...
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Unlike fires in mountain wilderness, which often burn over the course of weeks, the destruction on Thursday played out in minutes and hours.
KUNC Charred trees line the Poudre River in the Cameron Peak Fire's burn scar in the river's canyon. Last week, flash flooding in Poudre and Glenwood canyons resulted in multiple fatalities and road closures. Burn scars from the Cameron Peak and Grizzly Creek fires played a big role in the dangerous water flows, but the monsoon was also a factor. Storms that typically cause flash floods have calm winds in the upper atmosphere and high levels of water vapor. The calm winds keep the storm in one place, concentrating the rain in one area. The air is also typically saturated, or holding as much ...