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Colorado's snowfall prediction for 14' season: La Nada

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rememberscott
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Not again.

http://opensnow.com/dailysnow/colorado

Aug 2 2013 6:12PM
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eheath
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You realize winter is 3 months away right? They cant predict weather accurately outside of 1 week.
Aug 2 2013 6:21PM
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CashmereCat
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Life's hard for a skier in Colorado isn't it?
Aug 2 2013 6:33PM
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Byron_tha_gr8
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they can see trends once weather patterns return to the "winter" phase, like a high pressure ridge over CO for a month is usually a sort of accurate prediction. But now? yeah no one has any idea
Aug 2 2013 6:34PM
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eheath
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Anything they predict now is a wild guess, patterns can change in 24h. I'm just over kids posting threads that predict weather for the winter, because they're literally hype machines for their website, theyre not accurate.
Aug 2 2013 6:36PM
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bighomieflock
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There was a thread about a week or two ago predicting above average snow in Colorado.
Aug 2 2013 6:46PM
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GrahamGould
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people love to say stupid shit about what is going to happen in winter, but its only july. The only thing we can say for sure is that it will probably snow at some point in colorado this winter.
Aug 2 2013 7:05PM
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WVskiing
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YESSSSS
BEAST COAST!!!
Aug 2 2013 7:19PM
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werd.
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They can barely predict weather accurately the day before
Aug 2 2013 7:20PM
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Byron_tha_gr8
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ok the article isnt half bad. But OP you didnt even read it. The La Nada means neither el nino or la nina, which the author goes on to say means "anything can happen", not no snow will fall. He isn't even making a prediction.
Aug 2 2013 7:35PM
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iLLbiLLy
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ehh, Its not like any of you coloRADo's ever leave the park anyways.
Aug 2 2013 8:16PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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for real. they can barely predict the weather even the same day. hell, take today for example...the national weather service had my area listed for 100% chance of rain earlier today.....it never rained. I would love to be a meteorologist. in no other profession can you be wrong that often and still have a job. if i fucked up like the weather man does, the IRS & SEC would be breathing down my neck.
Aug 2 2013 8:23PM
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*JP
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This.

i would trade places with a colorado skier in a second, even on a year with below-average snowfall. colorado's below-average ski season is still 2 months longer than a good new york ski season. you will still probably have some good pow days anyway.
Aug 2 2013 8:24PM
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Film.
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HP123 was the same person who made the thread about colorado's snowpack being shitty, all I have to say is us in Colorado, even with a bad season will have anything better then the east coast by a long shot. Stop bitching about it, it could be worse a lot worse.
Aug 2 2013 9:38PM
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Dr.Dickless
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that's not entirely accurate
Aug 2 2013 9:41PM
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skiersupreme
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hope thats not right
Aug 2 2013 11:46PM
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PoopDollar
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It's August in California.
Aug 3 2013 12:14AM
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Jibbin_Ur_Face
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*Coloradans
Aug 3 2013 1:51AM
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walrussteeze
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It would be great to have another year like last year...Minus that record dry Nov-Jan bullshit.
Aug 3 2013 2:11AM
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[BoatsNHoes]
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Try living in Illinois. Our winter lasts 3 days tops.
Aug 3 2013 2:16AM
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No.Quarter
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Not this shit again. I vote for a lynching of weathermen
Aug 3 2013 2:22AM
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NWPA
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shut the fuck up
Aug 3 2013 2:51AM
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FuckAllOfYou
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boo hoo cry about it some more. jesus fucking christ
Aug 3 2013 10:20AM
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leonus
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Definitely need that snow to shred those sick summit county glades!
Aug 3 2013 10:37AM
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Loey
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anything could happen. knowing colorado weather i can go from blue skies to pouring in 20 minutes
Aug 3 2013 12:30PM
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250r
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haha you could almost find better terrain on the east coast then at breck
Aug 3 2013 3:25PM
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rememberscott
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bahahahaaa

I'm completely fine with you believing that. feel free to head back to the east coast
Aug 3 2013 3:41PM
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No.Quarter
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This statement is true, so you shouldn't even come to Breck
Aug 3 2013 4:24PM
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49566738265
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The article isn't about specific weather or above/below average snow, it just says it's not likely to be an El Nino or La Nina year which he then mentions makes long term forecasting pretty much entirely unpredictable.

When Joel Gratz speaks of snow, I listen. Dude's a weather beast!
Aug 4 2013 12:29AM
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SamtheEagle
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weather is different than climate. weather is short term climate is long term. Yes, weather can not be predicted very far ahead. Climate, however, can be SOMEWHAT predicted. Emphasis on somewhat because these predictions are not very accurate because we have no perfect or near perfect models of the earths systems. Things like el nino or la nina can be predicted in advanced but there is no telling how long the trends will last or how strong the trends will be. It is still a lot of guesswork but they can predict general trends fairly far out
Aug 4 2013 2:43AM
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B-Right-On
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Haha, the last two utah winters were forecasted to have normal to above average winters, and look what happened in the 11/12 season....shit hit the fan
Aug 4 2013 4:02AM
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B-Right-On
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Haha, the last two utah winters were forecasted to have normal to above average winters, and look what happened in the 11/12 season....shit hit the fan
Aug 4 2013 4:02AM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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lolz
Aug 4 2013 5:02PM
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SamMcChesney
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STOP.
Aug 5 2013 12:05AM
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RIP_leos_shack
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My guess is no one actually read the article which went on to explain that "La Nada" means that there will not be a strong El Niño or La Niña pattern, so it will be hard to predict snowfall patterns, meaning it will likely be an average year for Colorado.
Aug 5 2013 12:41AM
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fortyvalve
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They are proving water temperature forecasts, not necessarily a weather/snowfall forecast. The two have correlation though so it's understandable why they would mention it.
Aug 5 2013 8:02AM
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Bagels
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Aug 5 2013 9:29AM
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iLLbiLLy
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Haha YES!!! I've been looking everywhere for this sticker. Do you know who originally made it? I was wondering if they would mind if I ripped it off and made some of my own die cuts.
Aug 5 2013 12:09PM
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NWPA
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meet western colorado.
Aug 6 2013 6:02PM
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