El Niño Loves The San Juans

By Justin McHeffey
A string of wet days in California may mean heavy mountain snow for Colorado later this week. El Niño conditions remain at a historic level within the Pacific Ocean. The only other El Niño episode of similar strength and duration within the past 20 years happened during the 1997/1998 winter season. Sea surface temperatures continue their warmer-than-normal trend along the equator—that means the storm track favors the southwestern U.S. as we move deeper into