I HATE this weather! (Denver, Colorado Springs: tornadoes, home, moving to)

[LBear]

Originally Posted by jkcoop

If you are planting the proper types of plants for this time of year then you should not have any issues at all.

I planted Ornamental Grasses. (Maiden Grass, Feather Reed Grass)

It is supposed to drop to 25F tonight. I hope they do OK.

[mj88]

Do tornadoes ever threaten the Denver area as they often do in other parts of the midwest? (Kansas, Nebraska, etc.)

[David Aguilar]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

I wonder if adapting to the cold makes Denver's summers more miserable. I live in SoCal too and have never really liked the heat. Denver's summers are warmer than where I live now. I wonder if a winter of adjusting to the cold (where upper 40's become "warm") will make 90+ feel even hotter to me than it does now.

I'm actually a little worried about that. I moved here last summer from the high desert (110F plus in the summer) and the summer here was quite bearable. I'd laugh when people would complain if it got above 90F. Now that winter has passed and summer is coming I'm afraid I'll become a wuss when it comes to summer. Hope those summers in the desert made a permanent impression on me, so I don't hate life in a few months.

[LBear]

Originally Posted by mj88

Do tornadoes ever threaten the Denver area as they often do in other parts of the midwest? (Kansas, Nebraska, etc.)

YES!

Tornado Alley is anything EAST of the Rockies. Actually, two of the largest counties in Denver have the most tornadoes per any other county in America. Tornado Chasers are based out of Denver and do tours every spring and summer.

The tornadoes are NOT as powerful as the Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, etc. They are usually F2 or weaker but an F2 will still damage a home VERY SEVERELY.

[rkb0305]

That seems unlikely (most tornadoes per county). Where that stat from? I too was out planting flowers this morning, and was caught a little off guard by the snow. Rain wouldn't have surprised me so much.

The heat here is not oppressive. It is only hot for a few hours in the afternoon. It is beautiful open-the-windows weather in the morning and evening.

David Aguilar - you sound like my 4 year old! He won't sleep when it is snowing either.

[EscapeCalifornia]

Denver is on the edge of tornado alley but hardly the worst in the country.

Tornado Alley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[LBear]

Originally Posted by rkb0305

That seems unlikely (most tornadoes per county). Where that stat from?

More tornadoes occur in Weld County, just north of Denver, than any other county in Colorado. Since 1950 the two counties with the most tornadoes have been Weld and Adams. In fact, Weld county has one of the highest frequencies of tornadoes across the country. It's mainly due to the size of the county. Weld is 2 to 3 times the size of most counties across the nation.

The most well known tornado outbreak occurred in metro Denver on June 15, 1988. Five tornadoes resulted in seven injuries and damage in excess of $15 million.

NWS Denver-Boulder, CO - Local Climate Page

[COflower]

I hate this weather.

Welcome to Colorado.

[BlueWillowPlate]

Originally Posted by LBear

More tornadoes occur in Weld County, just north of Denver, than any other county in Colorado. Since 1950 the two counties with the most tornadoes have been Weld and Adams. In fact, Weld county has one of the highest frequencies of tornadoes across the country. It's mainly due to the size of the county. Weld is 2 to 3 times the size of most counties across the nation.

The most well known tornado outbreak occurred in metro Denver on June 15, 1988. Five tornadoes resulted in seven injuries and damage in excess of $15 million.

NWS Denver-Boulder, CO - Local Climate Page

I was living in Denver for that one. Huge trees were downed right in Park Hill.
But that was a *very* rare occasion. I certainly would not leave Colorado for fear of tornadoes.
Less unusual was the 1983 Election Day snowstorm in May, in which we lost electrical power.

Originally Posted by COflower

I hate this weather.

Welcome to Colorado.

lol COflower. My sympathies, Lbear.
Just remember y'all will be enjoying cool summer nights while I will be sleeping with my AC humming away.

[RATT]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

I wonder if adapting to the cold makes Denver's summers more miserable..

Absolutely E.C.,
I thought for the longest of time that it was psychological but it is not.Your blood thin and thickens for the seasons.Therefore in winter in order to conserve heat better in your blood will thicken,the colder it gets the thicker you blood become.And than with spring and summer it gradually thin out.
The problem is for those unfortunate souls like myself and Maltose whom leave in extreme climate like the kind you find North Dakota and here in montreal is the temperature shift.
For example in this ******** of a city where i live you freeze to death by having to suffer through January bone chilling temperatures anywhere between 0F/-5F during the day time
and than AT NIGHT IT CAN GET DOWN TO -10F/-20F with the windshill along with a foot of filthy snow.
Than 6 month later,
here in this awful place you will SUFFOCATE under 90F-95F weather unto witch you tack on 85 -95% humidity to the hot,stale,smelly,muggy and dirty summer air.All of that is made more difficult for most of us because it take until late august for our blood to thin out enough in order to get use to this unbearable weather.Unfortunately before you can get too comfortable a month will past and you find yourself in late September only to watch october arrive where on the 1st of the month the temperature ALWAYS drop straight down to 50F.
I cannot wait to relocate to Denver so i can "suffer"those "brutal" 40F-45F "BONE CHILLING" DECEMBER- JANUARY and those 50F FEBRUARY winter days...
Remember that Denver is dry during the summer so if you are in the shade with a nice breeze everything fine.
Count your blessings and be thankful people that you live in Denver,some of you are bitching about the weather but believe me when i tell you that you have no clue what bad weather is and how ****** it is to be stock in it.
lucky you.