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GREELEY, Colorado – Record-breaking wildfires in 2020 turned huge swaths of Western forests into barren, sooty scars. Those forests store winter snowpack that millions of people downstream rely on for drinking and irrigation water. But with such large and wide-reaching fires, the science on the short-term and long-term effects to the region’s water supplies isn’t well understood. To understand, and possibly predict, what happens after a river’s headwaters goes up in flames, researchers are descending on fresh burn scars across the West to gather data in the hopes of lessen...

Outstanding leadership is not overrated. It is an absolute necessity for success at every level of our society in our every endeavor — from our families, to our workplaces, to town government, to Garfield County, to the statehouse in Denver, to the halls of Congress and the White House in DC. Hopefully, most of us can agree that we have had no real leadership in Washington for quite some time now. To be clear, the Supreme Court has done its job, but the other two branches are a total disappointment. This second stimulus package should have had public debate and been out 90 days ago!

The Colorado Springs Fire Department has received a $30,000 grant from the Allstate Foundation to help with the department’s wildfire mitigation efforts, officials announced Tuesday.

January of 2020 was a generally warm and dry month across the region, save for a few passing weather systems within a mainly west to northwest flow pattern, bringing spotty precipitation to the higher terrain along the Continental Divide. February started out where January left off, warm and dry across south central and southeast Colorado, as Colorado Springs (73F) and Pueblo (79F) both setting record high temperatures on the 2nd day of the month. This warmth was short lived however, especially across southeastern Colorado, as multiple weather systems moved across the region bringing much col...

Andy Stein The Rare Colorado Derecho A derecho is a line of strong storms with damaging winds that holds its intensity for a very long time. You’ll typically find derechos in the Midwest and eastern U.S., which makes what hit Colorado on June 6 a rare occurrence: This was the first derecho to impact Colorado in modern records. There were 91 reports of damaging winds in a single day, smashing the old record of thirty back in May 2006. The highest wind report came from Winter Park, which measured 110 mph. The Yuma Heat Burst Colorado is known for its temperature swings, but the one in early ...