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Originally Posted by Caliguy2007
I'm am so glad I live here in California...I honestly don't know how you guys could handle getting snow and cold temps even in Spring.
I think it was a few years ago when you guys even had Snow on the first week of June.
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Good grief, people. Get over it--it's Colorado weather! When I was a kid, we had to set off fireworks on the 4th of July in overcoats because it was about 35-40 degrees--in Denver! One year, I was driving in 6" of snow in Leadville on Colorado Day--August 1st. Another year, in Gunnison, I was scraping frost off of the windshield because the low was 21 degrees--on June 21st, the first day of summer. I've seen it go to 95 degrees in the day during September--and freeze that night. I've seen the temperature drop 40 degrees in 30 minutes. I've seen the temperature drop during a thunderstorm 30 odd degrees in less than 5 minutes. I've seen it over 100 degrees many times, and below 40 below on more than a few. Winds--over 100 mph gusts many times--55+ sustained, too. I've seen it so dry that I could walk across a major Colorado river in irrigating boots and not get wet, and have seen it so wet that the same river was running in flood stage 30 feet deep and nearly a quarter-mile wide at the same location. I've seen lightning hit trees, houses, fenceposts, railroad tracks, water, vehicles, power poles, transmission lines--seen it 80 miles distant and 30 feet away. Hail--I've seen it up to softball size and have seen it piled four feet deep. Snow--from a skiff to drifts 35-40 feet high. I've driven on roads where the snow was still 6' deep on the level where the road had been plowed out--in late June.
Transplants seem to like to complain and moan about all of that--the natives just accept that kind of Colorado weather and go about their business--and actually enjoy the variability and unpredictability of Colorado weather. Weather would be boring to me if it was any other way.