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October 28th, 2008: Boy, what a nice stretch of weather we are having. A cloudless sky, cool nights, and warm days. If love the outdoors, this is like an extension of Summer. Some folks are wondering if we have any record warmth in sight. Let's check it out, I will put our forecast high in brackets: COS Record High / Forecast High Pueblo Record High / Forecast High October 29th: 83 [ 74 ] 87 [ 78 ] October 30th: 78 [ 75 ] 83 [ 81 ] October 31st: 75 [ 74 ] 82 [ 77 ] November 1st: 74 [ 77 ] 80 [ 81 ] Looks like we will get really close in Colorado Springs on Halloween, and threaten or break the record high on Saturday for both Colorado Springs and Pueblo. Rather we break records or not, it is certainly going to be a great ending to October and beginning to November. Unfortunately, this type of weather always troubles me this time of year. Usually, when we see a big stretch of warm weather we will follow it up with stretch of equally cold weather. Right now, there is no real sign of this occurring anytime soon. However, there is some cold air pooling near the Arctic Circle that could be tapped by a big pattern switch. Check out the temperatures in Canada below:
Again, nothing horrendous yet, but it is building... Hate to be a buzz kill with the beautiful weather we are seeing, but at some point it all has to balance out. We will continue to watch this trend closely. Chief Meteorologist Brian Bledsoe |
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Posted by: Denise Location: Peyton
Well, I've been scared to death of propane bills so I'm all for above average temperatures this year. As far as snow? Keep it up in the mountains and let it rain down here. Yeah, yeah, I know! I need to move to a warmer climate. Yo estudiando espanol : ) Posted by: Shawn Location: 80923 The good news if u like snow is that the "thanksgiving storm" which the experts r saying looks very small and disorganized is like most of the big storms weve gotten since i moved here in 1993. None of the big storms weve gotten looked big a few days away and then blew up. All the storms that the experts say look like monsters a few days away give us a dusting every time. Let's hope this 15-year trend continues!!! Bring on the snow!! I can dream can't I? Posted by: jon Location: stratton meadows, Co. Sprgs/ desert. Julio, you are observant, but you made an error in your forecast in that this place will look like Pueble, - not so, try more like Las Cruces N.M. It is all the way south near the s. end of N.M. - end of I-25 & just minutes west of El Paso Tx., i've been there, & seen what it looks like, be ready to garden with zone 7 cacti & be sure to get " theft insurance " for your cacti as in south Arizona & adjacent parts of Calif. the theft of cactus is rampant, in fact there were reports in Palm Sprgs, Calif, of landscape contractors - going out at night & stealing cactuses from competing contractors & planting them in their own client's plantings... strange people actions brought on by excessive drought.. Be prepared... jon Posted by: ryan Location: monument on tuesday were probably are going to break a record high you just watch we also had some snow last week but that didn't give us some help there because the ground was too warm we are all lucky that we don't live in florida were every season in florida is lightning season brian I hope that if we break a record high we don't get lightning in november Posted by: Julio Location: 80907 Don't know if any of the weather guys have noticed...but if we are below average snowfall again this year like you say we will be, that will be the 8th year in a row. We haven't had a streak that long of below normal precip in the last 113 years! I don't want to hear the excuse that well, we only measure at the airport and it isn't that accurate...hasn't it always been mesured at the airport? Bottom line is something is going on with our weather that is making us warmer and drier than we used to be. Were going to look just like pueblos weather in 5 years...you watch. Posted by: ryan Location: monument I'm tired of getting unseasonably cold temperitures in the spring and also i'm tired of getting unseasonably warm tempuratures in the fall brian I think we are going to have another bad winter agian with not much snow I hope we don't get snow in june agian like we did two years ago and also I hope we don't get under a tornado watch agian in the spring like we did two years ago Posted by: Josh Location: Monument Well lets just hope we get some good snowfall amounts sometime soon.. i moved here 4 years ago bc i heard colorado springs used to get good snow seasons. what happened to that? Posted by: shawn Location: 80923 hey ed- I didn't know about la nina, but that sucks. i wish we had as many el nino years as much as we have la nina years! i hope it changes this spring! Posted by: Josh Location: Monument Yup lets face it guys... not a lot of snow this winter... maybe it will be like a few years ago were it was 75 out on Christmas day... lets hope not. Posted by: Brian Location: Weather Center Not sure if it will be as dry as last Winter, but I do think it will be drier than normal. I do think we will see more snow this Winter than last Winter. That's not saying much though... Thanks for reading our blog. Posted by: Julio Location: 80907 So I see zero precipitation forecasted for a while...isn't this of concern to you? were going to find ourself in a drought before you know it. Snow, even some rain, but were so dry right now were a fire hazardous zone. Is this winter going to be as bad as last year? I guess so now that you say la nina is back, huh? Posted by: ed Location: widefield Hey shawn? Didnt you hear? La Nina is back which means dismal snowfall here. everone around us will do fine, but all the 'major' storms will be to our north or east. Get use to it. We're in foe another below average snow winter and probably above average temps too. I think you weather guys like this! Posted by: shawn Location: 80923 hey everyone- if we don't get snow, we will have major wildfires and then u will complain about that- WE NEED SNOW!!!! Posted by: Julio Location: 80907 It's already almost mid November and we've had no real snow yet...today's storm,as you guys say will produce none...plus there is no real snow any time in the future. We're drying up around here, I bet we get less than 20 inches total this winter. I guess we might as well get used to it, since the Sprngs seems to be transforming to a desert...I guess the question is how long will it take until we're a total desert like west texas or southern new mexico? It never snows there, kind of like here. I long for the days of old (about 10years ago...) when we had MAJOR snowstorms that came through the springs. Posted by: jon i heared obama is going to require for us to give up our snowstorms to his "tax code" & that we have to make a 45% rate of payment of our annual rain allowances to the IRS, so it is dry times ahead along with depleted bank acounts for us resulting in hard times.. Posted by: jon Location: Southgate/Straton Meadows Just got back from a nice 4day jaunt to the Moab Ut. country. High desert... am getting to like the looks of the plant life they have, as we may do well to replace the old water guzzling wasteful & boring landscapes now in place with extreme xeriscape plantings including the likes of desert live oak, shinnery oak, cliff rose, Utah juniper - which lacks the sharp pricklies that normal junipers has & they have very colorful berries, yuccas, single leaf ash, dwarfed mounding cushion plants that are very attractive, variety of cactusus that are very picturesque, even indian paintbrush ( can be obtained at certain garden shops in spring ), this is no joke, very xeriscapes can be very interesting & attractive... check out with North American Rock Garden Society; the Denver Botanic Gardens for more info, be prepared to see no more significant snows & less occurrances of rain here... i have told you ... Posted by: Josh Location: Monument So does there look like there is a better chance of snow Sunday night into Monday morning? Posted by: Brian Location: Weather Center Branden and I even talked about the potential for us to wake up to nothing. This was a tough one to figure out, as our forecast from two days ago was more correct than the one last night. The band of snow set up a little too far to our north and east, and never built back toward the Front Range. However, we did want folks to be prepared for the threat. Better to be prepared than not... Snow forecasting is always a tough challenge in Southern Colorado. That's just part of the job. Thanks for reading our blog. Posted by: ed Location: widefield Well, there was snow in your forecast and low and behold we wake up to partly cloudy skies! Starting off with a bang!!! Posted by: Jarvis Location: Stetson Hills Hmmm. Sounds like a decent winter to me. Not ALL of us want heavy snow and all the trouble that comes with a brutal winter. Just a little bit is A-okay with me. Posted by: ryan Location: monument you have got to be kidding me another la nina year agian this is only going to get worse soon we could be in a drought like we did in 2002 be happy that we were only in a level 1 drought but some of the folks out east got in a worse drought like a level 2-4 drought lets just hope that we don't get in a worse drought that we did last summer it could of been a lot worse Posted by: Julio Location: 80907 You got to be kidding me! Last winter was horrible and now we are going to have another la nina winter!?!? No WAY! We are never going to have a "ABOVE NORMAL PRECIP" winter are we? We haven't for like 10 years now...what gives? Posted by: Brian Location: Weather Center This Winter will likely be similar to last Winter. The La Nina that completely went away during the Summer, is showing signs of returning for this Winter. That would mean below normal snowfall and relatively mild temperatures at the lower elevations. The mountains will likely see their fair share of snow. Glad we got some moisture in August and September, because we would be in awful shape if we handn't. Thanks for reading our blog. Posted by: Anne I am really hoping for some snow soon! I have all the gear set out for the kids, just waiting...My brother just got off the ice, left Antarctica. He's going to come home to our weather, probably in the middle of a cold snap, and call us a bunch if wimps, as he strolls around in a t-shirt and shorts in our 30 degree weather. After of course, he does some fishing with the kiwi's. Posted by: Brian Location: Weather Center Yeah, we haven't had much going on during October. We had the little brush with cooler weather and some light snow on Wednesday night the 23rd, but that was it. I still think it will be kinda dry and mild through the Fall, with a storm system every now and again. The Spring has some potential to become more stormy. My first significant snow prediction is around the 22nd of November. We'll see... Thanks for checking out our blog. Posted by: jarvis Location: stetson hills Hi Brian. I've noticed this is the first fall/winter season in quite a while that we will not have had any snow by Halloween. Is that going to be a trend for this winter? Do the longterm forecasts predict another relatively dry winter? I've enjoyed the past several since we've been well below the snow we used to get back in the 90's and before. I'm one of the few on this board who actually don't like the cold and snow :) |
