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The Wet Mountains are a small mountain range in southern Colorado, named for the amount of snow they receive in the winter as compared to the dry Great Plains to the east. They are a sub-range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains , in the southern Rocky Mountains System.
Snowfall so far this season in the U.S. has varied from feet of snow for some to an unusual lack for others in the East, Midwest and West. The national overview: The map below from NOAA shows an ...
All the major mountain ranges in the state of Colorado, United States, are considered subranges of the Southern Rocky Mountains. As given in the table, topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid , a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
The amount of snow received at weather stations varies substantially from year to year. For example, the annual snowfall at Paradise Ranger Station in Mount Rainier National Park has been as little as 266 inches (680 cm) in 2014-2015 and as much as 1,122 inches (2,850 cm) in 1971–1972.
Heavy snow is expected to fall in the mountain and foothill areas of the Denver metro area and the eastern plains Tuesday, Nov, 26, 2024 through Wednesday afternoon. Pueblo-area snow forecast
The mountains are timbered with conifers and aspen to the tree line, at an elevation of about 12,000 ft (3,700 m) in southern Colorado to about 10,500 ft (3,200 m) in northern Colorado; above this only alpine vegetation grows. The Rockies are snow-covered only in the winter; most snow melts by mid-August with the exception of a few small glaciers.
The map below shows the probability that an area could receive more than 4 inches of snow. Use the slider at the top left to toggle by day. Kinsey Crowley is a trending news reporter at USA TODAY.
The wettest calendar year has been 2014 with 32.81 inches (833.4 mm) and the driest 1989 when only a water equivalent of 13.53 inches (343.7 mm) was gauged. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The high elevation means that Climax has consistently cold temperatures throughout the year, with frosts possible in any month and 53.5 mornings falling to or below 0 °F or ...