I HATE this weather! (Denver, Colorado Springs: to live, fences, cabin)

[daniboi81]

You haven't experienced crappy weather until you live in Western Michgan. Snow stays around for 3 months or more and it's always grey and gloomy for weeks at a time during the winter. I'm moving to Colorado because of their milder climate and the abudance of sunshine they receive....the mountains also attact me to the area.

[Mikieo415]

Agreed. Some people want don't realize what "bad weather" is.

[tfox]

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

Yes, Weld County does get a fair number of (mostly small) tornadoes, especially in the far eastern part of the county (east of Greeley). Far eastern Adams County is also not immune to tornadoes, receiving them with frequency (again, mostly small). However, these counties may receive a large number of tornadoes, but very few severe F3+ tornadoes. When I lived in Fort Collins, we joked that the tornadoes knew never touch to down west of I-25. This isn't quite true, I do believe that once a tornado did touch down somewhere near Loveland. Still, you will find very few tornadoes in history that ever touched down anywhere west of I-25, though some touched down just east of it (for example, the Park Hill tornado in Denver).

Tornadoes, of course, have been known to happen anywhere. Even Salt Lake City and Phoenix have suffered from hits by tornadoes, though both are well outside tornado alley and are surrounded by mountains. While Front Range cities are a bit more frequent in terms of tornadoes than those cities just mentioned, the urban corridor is NOT in tornado alley, which really begins about 50 miles east of Denver. (Limon, for example is vulnerable to tornadoes and has had a direct hit by a large tornado).

Still, I believe the only recorded Colorado fatality of a tornado in many decades was that in Holly last year, which is right on the Kansas border. That was a likely F5 tornado of the type that has never occurred on the front range, at least not to this point.

[HighlandsGal]

Originally Posted by daniboi81

You haven't experienced crappy weather until you live in Western Michgan. Snow stays around for 3 months or more and it's always grey and gloomy for weeks at a time during the winter. I'm moving to Colorado because of their milder climate and the abudance of sunshine they receive....the mountains also attact me to the area.

I disagree......a summer in Grand Rapids and the lakeshore beats the hot dry heat of Denver hands down!

[the_koolkat]

There is no where in the world that has perfect weather all the time. It is all give and take. Do you like it dry or wet, hot or cold, sunny or cloudy?? I'm in Wyoming right now so just take Denver weather and add in wind !! I'm sure I can live without the wind so I am going to LOVE it there!!

[judymoody]

LBear- sorry you're so frustrated by the Denver weather, but we, too are looking forward to moving to Denver, hopefully this summer. We are currently in Indianapolis. I was just talking with a neighbor of mine from Idaho, and he said he feels so sorry for the people who live here- they never experience truly breathtaking blue skies, or beautiful sunrises and sunsets. This part of the state that we live in is so flat, and so full of trees, it is difficult to even see the horizon. Our winter was a long dismal series of grey days, punctuated with only a few days of weak, watery sunlight. Our weather is usually on the mild side, in every sense of the word. I cannot wait to visit mischevious mother nature in Colorado!

[txspamom]

Sounds like Texas.....it's not snowing here, but I was getting sunburned and sweating at our kids soccer games yesterday. Today, I was shivering in the icy cold wind and cloudy skies watching another one. Unbelieveable! Looks like we'll be right at home in Denver if the weather changes are similar to those in Texas!!!

[LBear]

Originally Posted by the_koolkat

I'm in Wyoming right now so just take Denver weather and add in wind !! I'm sure I can live without the wind so I am going to LOVE it there!!

Actually, Denver is VERY WINDY. It is one of the most windiest cities and is rated as an excellent place to have wind power sources. So, if you are moving here, the wind will follow you.

[tfox]

Originally Posted by LBear

Actually, Denver is VERY WINDY. It is one of the most windiest cities and is rated as an excellent place to have wind power sources. So, if you are moving here, the wind will follow you.

Have you ever been to Wyoming? The wind blows non-stop there; there's no comparison with Denver.

[COflower]

Originally Posted by BlueWillowPlate

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.

LOL at me? Okay, that I can deal with...but I have to laugh at the OP as anyone that has done their research (here or elsewhere) knows that Colorado has very fickle weather. I noted in my blog that we have summer in the winter and winter in our summer and during spring and fall, we have winter, spring, winter spring, summer and then we have winter, fall then summer and fall and winter...use your imagination.

Shoot, you can call (and I am sure you will get an honest answer) the Denver Chamber of Commerce or Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce or any of the chambers around the state and they will tell you the same darn thing.

I love it here but dang if you don't have a wild variety of weather most anytime of the year here. KOAA (TV Station for those not in the know) reported the latest snowfall ever in C Springs was July 10th or something like that. I'd have to ask them about that but yeah, you can get wonderfully warm temps in the middle of winter but you can also get snow just about anytime of the year even if it's not normal.