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Despite strong spring precipitation, some rafting companies in the high country are adjusting routes earlier than usual due to low water levels. (CBS 4 Denver)
The CSU Tropical Meteorology Project team is predicting 18 named storms in 2021, including Ana, which formed in May.
Assistant state climatologist Becky Bolinger said the Colorado Climate Center is working on a project that looks more closely at how much soil moisture plays a role in the snowmelt season.
“It would probably be extremely unlikely to get more than five named storms at once in the Atlantic. I always figure we can take the most storms that we’ve ever observed and add one,” Klotzbach said. (Orlando Sentinel)
As the Pacific returns to neutral from La Nina, the pressure will drop off, but both states lead to less wind shear, which allows hurricanes and tropical storms to grow stronger. (Bloomberg)
Here’s what climate normals are, how they’ve changed, and how you can best make sense of them.
HFCs are much less harmful than the chemicals they replaced, but they have a strong heat-trapping effect that is contributing to global warming.
Here's a great explanation by Denver Channel's Mike Nelson on the factors that contribute to CSU's hurricane forecast – and why that forecast comes from a mile above sea level.
The map shows effects from deforestation, mining, urbanization and increasing agriculture.