What Is The Santa Fe Weather Like? (apartment, movies)

[meridavi]

I used to live in MN and, to me, the winters here in Santa Fe are perfect. We get snow, but it never lasts more than a couple days; usually, it falls at night and melts completely the next day. Sometimes, however, the roads can get really icy. And the plows only work the main roads.
Summer can be pretty hot and the sun is relentless during the day, but summer nights are extemely comfy. I'm not a huge fan of spring here - chilly, damp, and windy. Nights often dip back under freezing up into May which makes transplanting tricky.
My favorite season here is autumn. Glowing yellow aspens contrasted against dark green conifers in the mountains; brief, wonderfully powerful thunderstorms which occur just about every evening in Aug/Sept; orange flowers blooming along the turquoise hwy; tarantulas and tumbleweeds crossing the road; temps in the 60s and 70s with a dark blue sky. Heaven.

[mortimer]

Originally Posted by ABQConvict - the Decider

I have decided that nothing that can't survive naturally, food bearing plants aside,
should not be coddled with our precious drinking water.

So you're OK with using rainwater runoff or wastewater?

For some of the recent rain events at my house, I've been
able to fill a 30 gallon garbage can in just under 5 minutes
under just one canale. -- Cool!

I *do* water a few flowers with the hose if I don't have
any of that other stuff handy.

[jaxart]

Originally Posted by mortimer

For some of the recent rain events at my house, I've been
able to fill a 30 gallon garbage can in just under 5 minutes
under just one canale. -- Cool!

Anyone who has rain gutters with downspouts can benefit from your idea. I too have a 30 gallon plastic trash can that catches roof runoff from a downspout. I only use it for watering indoor plants normally, but recently when I had a leak in the water line to my house, it came in handy for flushing the toilet for a couple of days. Ideally it would be nice to have a reservoir to catch runoff from other downspouts on my house.

[ABQConvict]

Originally Posted by mortimer

So you're OK with using rainwater runoff or wastewater?

For some of the recent rain events at my house, I've been
able to fill a 30 gallon garbage can in just under 5 minutes
under just one canale. -- Cool!

I *do* water a few flowers with the hose if I don't have
any of that other stuff handy.

Not only am I ok with using rainwater (and wastewater), I think all new residential and commercial building should incorporate water catchment as an integral part of their design.


ABQConvict

[DrinkMagaritas]

I visted in the end of July for only a few days but everday it rained at least once. A total bummer since we wanted to really explore more parts of the city.

I have a Santa Fe weather app on my homepage and every day I look at it and says RAIN RAIN AND MORE RAIN. Every time I check it the forcast is chance of thunderstorm/rain.

Please tell me this application is off and you are not getting rain daily or that if it is raining there everyday its just certian pockets of rain that move quicky so I can enjoy life outside once I am living there.


Any good sites that go more indepth with the weather/adverages?

[Julie Ruin]

It's monsoon season! We gets lots of isolated thunderstorms. They often are torrential downpours, and sometimes even hail, but they pass relatively quickly. It's not nearly as common to just have a rainy day here; often during monsoon season it's lovely all day and then BAM! you get a huge, crazy thunderstorm for 15 minutes.

You will be able to enjoy life outside when you live here. I promise.

[DrinkMagaritas]

Originally Posted by Julie Ruin

It's monsoon season! We gets lots of isolated thunderstorms. They often are torrential downpours, and sometimes even hail, but they pass relatively quickly. It's not nearly as common to just have a rainy day here; often during monsoon season it's lovely all day and then BAM! you get a huge, crazy thunderstorm for 15 minutes.

You will be able to enjoy life outside when you live here. I promise.

Thanks! I actually went google searching after I posted this and saw that July/Aug are the wettest months for that area.

[old bird]

They are the wettest months, and this year has been pretty wet (at least here in Eldorado). With that said, the storms are very brief and very obvious. You can see the rain coming from miles away, stay outside until it starts to rain, then go in for 10 minutes and it's over.

When it says 30% chance of rain around here, any given location probably has a real 5% chance of rain for at least 10 minutes that day. There are pockets of thunderstorms that a really cool to watch, but not debilitating rain for the most part.

[Lovehound]

I've been to SF only once (going to correct that soon). I've spent huge amounts of time camping in the Southwest (NM, AZ, UT, CO) and the monsoonal storms I've seen were squalls, sporadic, meaning that the chances are that somewhere you can see it raining, often distantly on the horizon, but the chances of raining on you right where you are are minimal.

So yeah, it's raining almost every day. Will it rain on you? Probably not. Besides, I like rain!

[DrinkMagaritas]

Originally Posted by Lovehound

I've been to SF only once (going to correct that soon). I've spent huge amounts of time camping in the Southwest (NM, AZ, UT, CO) and the monsoonal storms I've seen were squalls, sporadic, meaning that the chances are that somewhere you can see it raining, often distantly on the horizon, but the chances of raining on you right where you are are minimal.

So yeah, it's raining almost every day. Will it rain on you? Probably not. Besides, I like rain!

It was very cool to watch all these diffrent storms off in the distance while we enjoyed the sun over us. Also cool to watch yourself drive into the storms.