This story was reported by a Florida newspaper yesterday, claiming that we are short of snow along the Colorado Front Range. In fact, we are far above normal for the Front Range river basins.

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/snotelanom/snotelbasin

Last year, Trenberth wrote this in early October.

http://www.eastangliaemails.com/

And winter temperatures have been plummeting in Colorado over the last decade, at a rate of more than 40 degrees per century. As a cyclist, I am painfully aware of this change.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/co.html