Skiers and riders, Colorado has been sandwiched between fall’s snow storms since mid-October, reaping the benefits from both north and south flowing systems.
If Colorado is the meat, the two pieces of bread are the zonal west-to-east flow in the north and cut-off lows in the south, squishing snow storms together across Colorado for the better part of a month.
This has led to above average snow pack leading up to Thanksgiving, a vast difference to where the state was at in 2023.
According to mapping from NOAA’s National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, seasonal accumulation of at least 0.10 inch or more of snow has accumulated approximately everywhere in the state as of Sunday.
Compared to the same date in 2023, a drastic difference appears …