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El Nino Still On Track To Affect Colorado's Winter

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Oct 15, 2009 4:47 pm US/Mountain

El Nino Still On Track To Affect Colorado's Winter

Written by Dave Aguilera

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Dave Aguilera
DENVER (CBS4) ― El Nino is still on track to affect our winter.

El Nino is the warming of ocean water in the Pacific Ocean west of South America. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration still expects El Nino to strengthen and hold on through the winter months.

The new long term forecasts from NOAA's Climate Predictions Center (CPC), is in and it looks like November snowstorms could be pretty hefty.

In the short term, 30 day outlook for November the CPC outlook is for above normal temperatures for the whole state including Denver. For moisture the forecast calls for normal precipitation for all of Colorado. For, Denver normal snowfall for the month of November is 10.7 inches. November has become Denver's second snowiest month on average, behind March!

In the 90 day outlook, November, December and January the CPC forecast calls for precipitation to run near normal for the whole state. With above normal temperatures through the period.

Normal or average snowfall for December is 8.7 inches of snow. December is Denver's 4th snowiest month. January's average is 7.7 inches. January is our 5th snowiest on average.

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