Monday, March 28, 2016

Late Summertime Chinooks

This afternoon, the Colorado Front Range is beingness raked past times gusty, southwest winds.  Produced past times high pressure level over the Desert Southwest interacting amongst depression pressure level over the Northern Plains, these winds, downsloping from the Continental Divide, dry out out together with rut up, comparable to Santa Ana Winds inward Southern California.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 dry-line currently stretches due north to southward through Colorado, but due east of the Front Range urban corridor, together with volition probable hit thunderstorms i time it moves into to a greater extent than humid air on the Great Plains.  Here inward Metro Denver, behind the dry-line, the gusty downsloping winds convey delivered hot, dry, crystal-clear air together with nosotros await to a greater extent than or less other afternoon inward the 80s (F).

During snowfall flavour (October to May) these winds are known equally chinooks or "snow-eaters," since they chop-chop warm the urban corridor together with brand snowfall disappear from the landscape; much less welcome during burn season, they tin rank the axe plough a minor burn into a raging inferno.  Tomorrow, later a mutual coldness front end moves inward from the northwest, the chinooks volition nigh downwardly together with it volition experience to a greater extent than similar spill (at to the lowest degree for a twenty-four hr menstruum or two). 

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