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Sep 2, 2009 7:15 pm US/Mountain

Garbage Truck Crushes Rooftop To Simulate Snow

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DENVER (CBS4) ― With the fires out west and temperatures in the 80s in Colorado, it's hard to imagine the state could be headed into a cold, wet winter. That's the prediction from climatologists and even the Farmer's Almanac.

The weather phenomenon called El Nino will likely mean a huge snow storm before the end of the year and maybe several over the course of the winter. So on Wednesday, Do It Yourself Network decided to use a garbage truck and a "disaster house" in Englewood to show how a lot of snow can cave in a home's roof.

CBS4 Meteorologist Dave Aguilera said the chances are good that Colorado could see a big blizzard this winter because it is an El Nino year.

"What it is -- is a warming of ocean water off the coast of South America," Aguilera said. "When that happens it kind of makes our weather patterns go crazy around here."

Aguilera says it often means an early winter and at least one whopper storm.

The last El Nino in 2006 brought the blizzard that closed Denver International Airport. Before that it was 1997 and the October blizzard. In 1982 an El Nino blizzard also hit Colorado. But Aguilera says outside the monster storms it could be dryer than average.

"We may have bigger snowstorms but fewer snowstorms," he said.

Aguilera says look for the weather phenomenon to stick around through next year, maybe bringing more moisture. He says El Nino just one piece of an often complex weather puzzle.

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