I know this title got your attention!
As I type, eastern Colorado (including here in Denver) is being slammed with an unusually strong February winter storm.
Typically, we see light and fluffy snowfalls during the month of February with just a few inches here and there. The average for the month is about 6 inches.
But as we all have experienced, the weather patterns this winter have been anything BUT typical. The storm hitting Colorado right now is more like something we'd see in mid to late March or early April.
So back to the hooker thing...
This type of storm is called a Colorado Hooker, or a Panhandle Hooker, because it forms east of the Rockies across southern Colorado, northern New Mexico or the Texas panhandle ... and hooks north and east toward the Great Lakes --- all the while, drawing in plenty of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, slinging it back into Colorado's Front Range.
The result, a big snow!
No comments:
Post a Comment