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VIDEO: Better Than Hoped For Snow Season Helps Colorado River Water

The #ColoradoRiver water supply is critically low for #LakeMead and #LakePowell. However, a better-than-expected snow season hitting the Rocky Mountains and the Wasatch Range will help runoff and give a much-needed boost to the water supply for those that draw out of the Colorado River system. Ye...

Meteorologist·1y ·Western N. America & Hawaii
Colorado weather: Alerts issued ahead of extreme snowfall in northern mountains, extreme cold in metro areas

The next round of snow and cold will be quite substantial. For the northern mountains, well over three feet of snow will be possible through Tuesday, and for the metro areas, the arctic cold will set in Sunday through Tuesday morning. Let's begin with the alerts, I anticipate more but these have...

Meteorologist·1y ·Western N. America & Hawaii
Hazardous storm system through Wednesday: Severe thunderstorms, snow forecast, rain outlook

A storm system is over the southern US Monday and will scoop up lots of tropical moisture to drop as heavy rainfall, heavy snowfall, severe thunderstorms, and travel impacts across the southern and eastern US. This weather forecast details snowfall totals from New Mexico to Oklahoma, over St Lo...

Meteorologist·1y ·Western N. America & Hawaii
The probability of La Niña drops to 14%, when and what's next
Meteorologist·1y ·Western N. America & Hawaii
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Matt is a native of Colorado where he continues to live and where his passion for weather started at an early age. With his degree in Atmospheric Science from The University of Kansas, he has over 20 years of communicating weather forecasts and climate outlooks in multiple outlets including television, radio, print, and digital media. He retired from his television career of 20 years to focus on forecasting and communication services offered by his two companies: a partnership in Weather5280 and Makens Weather.
Writing about Western N. America & Hawaii