It's snowing pretty heavily here right now and it's almost 3:00 pm, so I don't think we'll get our melt-off today.
We were supposed to get snow today, but it never happened. It still gets below freezing most nights, but we are having delightful days. Something similar happened last year in April, but May was freezing every night and late May is normally some of our warmest weather. A lot of tourists come up here in August expecting it to be warm, but usually the rainy season has started by then and things are cooling off.
We got only one half-way decent snowfall here, in November. I was stuck in it and loved every minute! Disappointed that there was only one.
Blizzard warnings are up for parts of Denver and along I-25 going north into Wyoming. In April 2003, a blizzard hit Denver and the area we were living in an apartment south of Denver. It started on a Tuesday night and, because my wife had a cold, she called in sick on Wednesday morning. Snow...…….a whole lot of snow fell! Not a single car could be seen in the parking lot. All covered in snow! The following Friday, a construction bull dozer, a front-loader and multiple dump trucks were in the complex taking out the snow. Here is a picture of what it looked like in our parking lot. Every vehicle buried in snow!
Cody, You are not allowed to bitch about snow. You are hating on Fla, and desperate to move back to the land of horses and lariats, cold and snow is part and parcel. If it snows after the first of June then I will support you.
We've had more than two feet of snow in the last couple of days. It stopped snowing a few hours ago and is now above freezing, judging from the water running down the street.
Not complaining about it, just showing a picture of a big blizzard that hit when we lived there in 2003. Believe me, we know what we are in for...…..nice summers, with very low humidity (thank God) and cold-to-freezing temps with snow. Which is all part of the Rocky Mountain region and High Plains.
Although we don't truly have a spring like most other places, what we have is earlier than usual this year. It is still freezing at night, and the lake behind our house has ice on it every morning that is melted by the end of the day, but almost all the snow has gone except in the orchards and gardens for some reason. Usually when the snow melts here, we go right into what passes for summer. When the snow is gone, the wildfire season starts. I remember spring in North Carolina and Georgia that were real springs with blooming flowers--azaleas, dogwoods and such. Although we can get some bulbs to grow here such as tulips and iris, we don't have the spectacular flowering spring seasons as they do in other parts of the country.
We usually have a mud season that takes up all of spring and much of summer, largely because it rains nearly every day, and then the leaves turn in late August.