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<br />beceme snew crystals. In the plains, there are no. upslepecenditiens <br />to. mix the silver iedide with the cleuds. We try, to. explain to. peeple <br />that we just waste eur time by seeding in the flat ceuntry during the <br />winter months. This is what I had to. tell the county cemmissieners up <br />in Craig. The western end ef Meffat Ceunty is very flat. They den't <br />get the uplift.: There is no. peintin putting: gene raters en the. western <br />edge ef Meffat Ceunty. It weuld de no. geed. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />We are sheeting fer preductive target areas. :This is where thesnew <br />falls in.Celerado.. Obvio.usly, o.ur target area sho.uld be where the sno.w <br />falls. We have seme geed areas in the high meuntains surreunding the . <br />San Luis Valley, and. Ged knews that area needs snew. . The valley fleo.r <br />is the driest area ef the state ef Celeradq. This map, by the way, is <br />an isehyetal map. Instead ef conteurs and land elevatiens, it has <br />lines like co.nteur lines that connect peints ef equal precipitatien. <br />measured in terms ef,water centent. The yellew line is twenty inches. <br />It gees en up to. farty and fifty and" in'a few cases, sixty inches ef <br />water. We de have infrequent starms which meve in frem .the seuth',ar.: <br />the seuthwest: and hit the San Luis Valley. When these accur, we want <br />to. take advantage ef them.: As yau can f!ee, we de have same small areas <br />ef majDr precipitation aleng the Sangre de Cristo.. Range and ,a little <br />ever in the Walsenburg-Trinidad area. We have given maximum ceverage <br />in that area, mere than is justified by actual weather eccurrences. <br /> <br />We have two. weather influences in ColDrade; the majar ene. in .the winter- <br />time being eut ef the West. The starms ceme'frDm the ner.thern Pacific <br />Ocean and we knawthey are. caming. We can see them: by satellite:. We <br />dDn't knew where they will end UP,. but we knew they are coming. When <br />they are. getting heavy rainfall Dr snew inOregen er Washingten, then <br />we knDW that a majer stenn is develeping and the satellite ShDWS them <br />all the way thraugh. Thase are the starms which have been very heavy <br />this year.: We have had very little in the Seuthwest until recently. <br />The majer. sterms in ,the. Seuthwes.t .ariginate frDm a different ,directiDn. <br />They also. came eff the Pacific. but out af the mare sautherly. areas af <br />the Pacific.: When they de came, hawever, they generally contain me.re <br />meisture: and are a little wanner ,than the sterms .that hit up ner,th. , <br />We have anly had Dne ar twO.: so. far. A majDr. stann has: eccurred in the. <br />last few days in this area. With these stenns, we s.emetimes get, cen- <br />siderable falleut en the ether side Df the Cantinental Divide in the <br />Rio. Grande Valley, except en the valley flear.: Three inches .is the <br />average: in Alamesa during this peried. It is the driest area in <br />CelDradD fer a very. Dbviaus reaSDn: It is .surraunded by, mQuntains <br />and mast ef the precipitatian is dissipated by the time it crDsses the <br />valley fleer. The Sangre de Cristo. Range is on Dne side and the <br />Cantinental Divid~on the ather and the San Luis Valley is left high and <br />dry ye?r, in': and year. aut ,because af that situatien. <br /> <br />-58- <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />