Happy New Year, Snow, and January Outlook

As I mentioned in my previous post, it looks like another potent cold front is going to drop out of Canada and bring some weather changes to much of Colorado including Denver on Wednesday. With still several days to tweak the forecast I will refrain from getting too excited, or specific, and instead will just mention a good chance of cold Canadian air and some snow to effect the area for Wednesday into Thursday.

Much of the nation is already under a deep freeze. The first map from the Weather Channel and shows current wind chill values in the U.S., the second is from the Weather Underground and shows the cold Canadian air mass waiting in the wings.

January tends to be a pretty calm month for Denver. The National Weather Service's climatology page states it is Denver's coldest month, and fifth snowiest. The coldest temperature ever recorded in Denver of -29 degrees F occured during the month of January. Wind is often the biggest story of the month, providing us with those warm windy days so common during the early part of last year. Last January also made it in the top five for driest Januaries on record - let us hope 2010 starts a little wetter (and colder) than 2009!