Laserfiche WebLink
<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />is greater than .10 inch per hour. Approximately 98 percent of all <br /> <br />hours of precipitation in high mountainous terrain in Colorado have <br /> <br />amounts less ~Oan .10 inch per hour and approximately half of all <br /> <br />precipitation hours are only at the rate of .01 inch.2 The accumulation <br /> <br />of snowpack is the result of ",any hours of small amounts which are <br /> <br />thennally locked into the snowpack which does not melt until the follow- <br /> <br />ing early summer months. <br /> <br />During the fall months of September and Cctober occasional major storms <br /> <br />move up from the warm Pacific bringing heavy amounts of precipitation <br /> <br />to the mountain ranges "rich are approached from the southwest. These <br /> <br />storns, which have less than annual reoccurrence frequenc~, empty most <br /> <br />of their moisture on the southern slopes of the San Juan Mountains in <br /> <br />southwestern Colorado. There are additional ranges of high terrain <br /> <br />over which that air mass must move before reaching the Gore Range. <br /> <br />-8- <br />