{"id":1315001,"date":"2019-09-25T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=988192"},"modified":"2019-09-25T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T20:23:08","slug":"colorados-top-weather-related-killer-may-surprise-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/colorados-top-weather-related-killer-may-surprise-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado\u2019s top weather-related killer may surprise you"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"795\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/traffic-colorado-snow.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Colorado traffic snow\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/traffic-colorado-snow.jpg 795w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/traffic-colorado-snow-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/traffic-colorado-snow-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>Semi-trucks, top, turn across Interstate 70 to head back towards Denver as I-70 westbound was closed from Georgetown, Colo., to Silverthorne due to avalanche reduction work Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. All cars and trucks had to turn around. Portions of I-70 as well mountain passes on other highways are being periodically closed so crews can trigger avalanches to prevent surprise slides, leaving drivers to wait it out.<\/strong><br \/><em>Andy Cross\/The Denver Post via AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A map posted online this month by Washington Post meteorologist and USTornadoes.com co-founder Ian Livingston shows the \u201cmost frequent cause of weather fatalities by NWS County Warning Area,\u201d which divides the country by the 122 National Weather Service offices.<\/p>\n<p>What was the most common weather-related killer among the three Colorado-based weather service offices? Avalanches.<\/p>\n<p>Weather-related fatalities along the Front Range tend to be caused more by flooding and lightning, at least based on official weather-related fatalities logged by the National Weather Service during the past 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it\u2019s often avalanches that create the most weather-related heartbreak each year. Since 1999, 119 avalanche fatalities have been recorded in Colorado, or an average of about six per year. That\u2019s the most avalanche-related deaths of any state in that 20-year period. Alaska is next, with 88 avalanche-related deaths since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Eight avalanche deaths were recorded in Colorado last winter, all of which took place this calendar year,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/avalanche.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">according to the American Avalanche Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Denverpost.com (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/09\/21\/colorado-top-weather-related-killer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Denverpost.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/colorados-top-weather-related-killer-may-surprise-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semi-trucks, top, turn across Interstate 70 to head back towards Denver as I-70 westbound was closed from Georgetown, Colo., to Silverthorne due to avalanche reduction work Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. All cars and trucks had to turn around. Portions of I-70 as well mountain passes on other highways are being periodically closed so crews can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1315001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 23:09:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}