Nights cooling off (houses, weather, heat)

[onthamove]

its right of 70 near cleakcreek/jeffco line

[Fuzz]

Ah, Floyd Hill. The winter weekend traffic jams to the mountains start around the Floyd Hill/Beaver Brook exit (if it doesn't start even before).

[jazzlover]

Floyd Hill, just about the start of the "I-70 Sacrifice Zone" from there to Grand Junction. Rural sprawl, trophy houses, and traffic as far as the eye can see. Drove through there yesterday--yuk! It was actually nice before they built I-70--of course, hardly anyone remembers it from back then. I do.

As to cooling off--well, yeah! That's what it does at night at 5,000 ft.+ That's why fall basically starts at Labor Day in the high country. 34 degrees last night at my house (6,200 ft. in SE Wyoming). Fall is here. I happen to think it's the prettiest season in the Rockies, but it does end those short summers. The people who move to Colorado just for those cool, nice summers tend to get real disappointed about the other 8 to 9 months.

[onthamove]

i am moving to evergreen cuz i like snow basically....i know i know it doesnt get wat the resorts get but it gets a heckaof alot more than denver i was on the national weather service's website and over the past 6 winters evergreen avgs roughly somewhere between 38-41'' more snow a winter than denver but that'd shudnt suprise anyone as evergreen is much higher in elevation it is the rockymtn foothills after all!!!

[onthamove]

officially 06-07 denver recorded 72.9'' of snowfall evergreen recorded 137'' almost double, though last year was not a typical winter the 30 yr averages are den 55'' and evergreen 84'', though i would think at 8,000' i may recieve a little more than 84'' you all know how local weather is in colorado

[onthamove]

btw i live for big goliath snowstorms!!!

[jazzlover]

Originally Posted by onthamove

btw i live for big goliath snowstorms!!!

You know what? If you REALLY want big snowstorms and places that get a lot of snow in winter, then move to upstate New York. Most locales there get WAY more snow than all but the snowiest locations in Colorado (Evergreen included). People assume that all of Colorado is snowed under all winter (to the point of anxious questions asked about it constantly on these forums) because of what they see in the ski areas. Those areas are the EXCEPTION in Colorado. Most of Colorado's permanent population lives where less than 50" of snow (usually quite a bit less) falls in winter. And most live in places where what snow does fall melts between storms. So, why don't we all give the "snow" thing a rest? It snows, it melts, it snows again--no big deal . . .

[High Altitude]

8,000' here, 30's at night, noticed lots of frosted roof tops this morning (38deg around 8am), no heater yet.

[EscapeCalifornia]

How cold is it in your houses by morning this time of year without running the heater?

[suzco]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

That's surprising. From the topo maps, it looks like most of Evergreen (around Evergreen Lake) is between 7,000-7,400'. Is your place up on one of the ridges beyond town? I really don't know Evergreen too well.

It's all uphill from there!

Much of the residential property is uphill from downtown Evergreen and the lake. The home I owned when I lived in Evergreen was right about 8400' (It was about 3/4 mile via paved road from downtown Evergreen; all switchbacks). Going up towards Squaw Pass (11,100 ft.), there are houses all along the way. Perhaps the highest subdivision area of Evergreen is Echo Park, between 9,000' and 10,000'.