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Denver Prepares For Second Major Blizzard
« on: Dec 28^th, 2006, 10:16am »

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The National Weather Service is expecting 10 to 18 inches in Denver, the plains and the foothills by daybreak Friday. "Another winter storm to slam the Front Range of Colorado," read a winter-storm warning issued by the weather service Wednesday night.

Friday and Saturday remained a wild card - the storm could linger and pile up an additional foot in areas, or it could spin out over the Eastern Plains, meteorologists said.

Snow will begin at midday today and will fall heavily at times, possibly hitting rush hour, said Jim Kalinas, a forecaster with the National Weather Service.

"We're still showing a pretty good storm system," Kalinas said,

"It looks like we'll get a break on Friday, even Friday night," Wesley said.

He said it was too early to assess the likelihood of additional snow in Denver or at Denver International Airport on Saturday, but at least one model predicted "significant" additional precipitation.

"I've seen that before and I'm a little leery of it," Wesley said, adding he is not yet convinced of heavy snow Saturday. "A very minor shift would put the snow out in Kansas."

The roads are likely to be a mess tonight and Friday morning as drivers navigate fresh snow, said Klaus Wolter, a meteorologist with the University of Colorado and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Wolter said he's perplexed by the dual December storms.

"This is really very weird," he said. "It's spooky. We've never had two big storms in a row midwinter like this. Never."

Wolter said his gut feeling is that this afternoon and tonight the winter storm won't deliver quite the "oomph" of last week's blizzard.

But this may not be the end of the winter storms. The unsettled global weather conditions contributing to last week's storm and this one - including a system of thunderstorms over the Indian Ocean - may continue into January, Wolter said.

This year, a weak El Nińo system has formed in the tropical Pacific Ocean, and that normally delivers dry Decembers and Januarys to Colorado, Wolter said.

Today's storm looks more like El Nińo's springtime storms in Colorado, Wolter said.

"Sometime after all this is over, we'll get into those winter doldrums," he said.

Predictions for this storm aren't likely to be far off, said Bob Henson, a spokesman for Boulder's UCAR and author of the "Rough Guide to Weather."

Weather models have improved significantly since 1987, when Denver forecasters called for 2 to 3 feet of snow March 17.

Not even 2 inches arrived, Henson said, "but that's less and less likely today."
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This is an old article, and, yes, there will be more snow on Friday and Saturday. 8 to 18 inches today, and 10 to 20 more inches Friday and Saturday, plus about 1 1/2 feet of snow from last storm. I hope my operation on Friday is gonna go okay, if we can get to the ER then...

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Re: Denver Prepares For Second Major Blizzard
« Reply #1 on: Dec 28^th, 2006, 3:42pm »

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What are you getting operated on? (Is that even correct English? lol)

Good luck on the weather! You don't want power going out while you're in the middle of your operation. Shocked

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Re: Denver Prepares For Second Major Blizzard
« Reply #2 on: Dec 28^th, 2006, 4:46pm »

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Yeah, lol. I'm having a hernia operation

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Re: Denver Prepares For Second Major Blizzard
« Reply #3 on: Dec 28^th, 2006, 6:50pm »

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Well, good luck with the snow and the operation. I hope there aren't any more stranded people. (For some reason, I thought you lived in Florida!)

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