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Why does every snow storm have to be blown totally out of proportion these days? News Flash, snow storms happen in Colorado during the winter and always have since the start of recorded time.
Technically it isn?t winter.Originally Posted by CHA-LEE
I guess if it snows in the spring it?s a major event.
According to the National Weather Service, April is the second snowiest month of the year, second to March, with 8.9 inches average.
Everyone who has lived in Colorado for a while knows that snow storms are possible any time from Sept - May. Sometimes those snow storms can be significant. Dealing with extreme swings in weather from one day to the next IS a normal function of living in Colorado. Man up and deal with it or move. Blowing snow storms out of proportion and proactively closing schools/businesses because there "Might" be some snow blows my mind. When I was a kid growing up in northern Colorado it would require an exceptionally brutal snow storm with several feet of accumulation on the streets to close anything down. I clearly remember having to get up extra early during blizards to walk to and from school in knee high snow because it required biblical levels of snow fall to actually create a school canceling "Snow Day".
I guess the wussification of the human race is nearing completion........ Bummer
I went to school in Jeffco... think we once had a snow day in 83.
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Epic storms in 2003, 2006, etc. I had to chain up my truck and was giving rides to my wife's nurse coworkers.
I think that 2003 storm was the one that dumped 40"+ in Parker twice in two weeks.
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Got all the snow cleared from the driveway, sidewalk and steps at 7:30 this morning. Everything nice and dry by 11. Now ready for the rain/snow allegedly heading in tonight lol. Ziva the wonderdog enjoyed playing in the 3 or so inches that filled up the backyard.
Perhaps the local media has to sensationalize snow events to placate all of the Californians who now call Colorado home?
They're both right. From Bouldercast.com:
So was it actually a bomb cyclone?
Most accurately, no?it was not. But technically, kinda. Here?s the situation?
The term bomb cyclone is what a storm that undergoes bombogenesis is called. Bombogenesis is the term for explosive intensification of a mid-latitude low pressure system.
Both bomb cyclone and bombogenesis are very obscure meteorological terms that have been resurrected recently from the darkness of 1970?s research journals. When ?blizzard? no longer gathers reader attention, ?bomb cyclone? comes to the rescue?
Bombogenesis was coined by one scientist from northern Europe in the 1970?s to describe extraordinarily rare and rapidly intensifying storms in the north Atlantic Ocean. He explicitly defined bombogenesis as a 24 millibar pressure drop in 24 hours. This is the accepted and widespread definition of bombogenesis, and the one the media has been using for the last five or more years any time a strong storm forms and they need that sweet, sweet ad-revenue.
However, a few years later in 1980, two other scientists decided that bombogenesis criteria should vary by latitude (which does have the math to back it up). They created a bombogenesis equation that scales the established threshold (24 millibars) in relation to the original scientist?s latitude where he did his research (60 degrees north). The equation is? 24 mb x sin(latitude)/sin(60?). If we plug in the latitude of Boulder, 40 degrees, this equates to a bombogenesis threshold of 18 mb, instead of the ?normal? 24 mb. That is, if a storm?s central pressure drops 18 mb in 24 hours near Boulder, that would be a bomb cyclone.
This week?s storm seems to have dropped from about 1000 ?> 982 mb in 24 hours. This does hit the 18 mb threshold, but not the 24 mb one. By conventional standards it wasn?t a bomb cyclone. However, by the latitude-adjusted equation, it was.
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