The persistent windy conditions that have been so unpleasant this spring actually have roots nearly 3,000 miles away from Colorado. MikeNelson247 took an in-depth look at the windy conditions in Colorado and the climate connection.
DENVER — The persistent windy conditions that have been so unpleasant this spring actually have roots nearly 3,000 miles away from Colorado.
For the past several months, the jet stream has been mostly blowing from the Pacific Northwest across the Northern Rockies and then over the East Coast. This pattern has brought a lot of wind to Colorado, but it has kept the main storm track to our north.During the daytime, the heating from the sun creates rising columns of air from the Earth’s surface — we call them “thermals.” A good analogy is to think about how a hot air balloon rises, since the heated air is less dense.
Since the main storm track has been holding north of Colorado, we have been missing out on moisture for most of the spring and we remain in moderate to severe drought across Colorado. The overall drought in the western United States has been a problem for several years and in many areas farther west, for the last two decades.
The La Niña is also a phenomenon that goes through cycles, and eventually the ocean temperatures will become warmer than average . When this finally does happen, our weather may well shift to a wetter than average pattern, but right now, that is not in the cards for the next 90 days at least. We have changed the amount of carbon dioxide from about 280 parts per million at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, to over 417 ppm as of today. Now, 417 ppm seems like such a small amount compared to the vast amount of oxygen and nitrogen in our air, but small amounts do matter.
The forcing from that increase in heat will cause the average global temperature to warm by about 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Our planet has already warmed by about half that amount since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
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