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New year holds promise for more snow, experts say |
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Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:08 |
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Photo by Dustin Schaefer, Loveland Ski Area
By CADDIE NATH, SUMMIT DAILY NEWS
It's been a lean snow season so far for the entire Upper Colorado River Basin, but weather forecasters say it's still too early to hang up the ski gear.
“There's a lot of snow season yet to go,” National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist Kyle Fredin said. “That area has four solid months of snow coming up. The weather sometimes flips around, and I wouldn't be surprised if (you're) right back to near normal.”
Normal, for the end of December in Breckenridge, would be 64.4 inches of snow, but this season had produced a mere 32.7 inches from September through Wednesday.
The Upper Colorado River Basin as a whole is at only 63 percent of average, year to date.
But with another possible storm system headed Summit County's way next week and several months of winter still to come after that, forecasters are optimistic the 2011/2012 season's snow totals can make a comeback in the new year.
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