Matt Makens is a KWGN Pinpoint Meteorologist and occasional contributor to Weather5280 from Denver's Pinpoint weather team. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's the time of year when we look at the snowpack numbers to climb, and hopefully stay near to above average for water resources, fire danger, and the economy; so far, so good. Here is the average snowpack chart for Colorado showing a nearly normal curve until th

March was Colorado's 6th warmest and 20th driest since 1895. Further, this year is on pace to be the 4th warmest for Colorado in 120 years. We'll need a good shift in the pattern over the rest of the year to change this. Last week we saw some good rain and snow for some across northern Colorado, and while our latest system this week brought much needed rain and snow to California it unfortunately missed Colorado by and large. The pattern has been an a

We have addressed El Niño in previous posts , and what it could potentially mean or not mean, in the coming months. While El Niño gets all the publicity, there are other forces at work that act to drive our weather and climate. Two of those such forces are the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation. These are long term oscillations (they change phase about every 25-35 years) that will many times govern wheth