Colorado Summer Weather Forecast (Pueblo, Grand Junction: calculated, allergies, vacation)

[wanneroo]

Accuweather just put out their long range summer forecast:

Hot Summer for Rockies, Plains; Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic Stormy (http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/accuweather-2012-summer-forecast/64673 - broken link)

Looks like Colorado is going to be hot and dry with high temps along the front range. No doubt this also means fire season is going to be big.

[Josseppie]

This is the part that caught my attention:

"Western Nebraska, western Kansas and eastern Colorado have the potential to see temperatures in the upper 90s and more than 100 degrees for a long string of days," Pastelok, leader of the AccuWeather.com long-range forecasting team, said.

Pueblo already has temperatures in the upper 90's a lot in the summer and in many days in a row so I am hoping Pueblo gets a string of days with temperatures above 100 and even 110.........

[brightdoglover]

I follow the allergy reports for Ridgway. Sky high since March, which I've never seen. Kinda glad I had to cancel my June vacation due to a work injury, since I am felled by the allergies there.
Agreed that the fire season is truly alarming.

[bovinedivine]

We know it won't last, but this is how things looked today (Thursday, May 3) in Branson, Colorado, as we picked up 1/10-inch of moisture. We're happy for every drop we can get out here on those dry, barren, brown, dusty southeastern plains that you hear people talk about.

Branson Green May 2012.jpg
Branson Wild Roses May 2012.jpg
Branson Spring May 2012.jpg

[CosmicWizard]

I think I may have felt a drop in Grand Junction yesterday afternoon, or maybe it was just my imagination.

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by Josseppie

This is the part that caught my attention:

"Western Nebraska, western Kansas and eastern Colorado have the potential to see temperatures in the upper 90s and more than 100 degrees for a long string of days," Pastelok, leader of the AccuWeather.com long-range forecasting team, said.

Pueblo already has temperatures in the upper 90's a lot in the summer and in many days in a row so I am hoping Pueblo gets a string of days with temperatures above 100 and even 110.........

AAAAAAAAAAACK to that forecast!

It's been raining in Louisville for about two hours now. All I can say is, it's about time!

OTOH, I heard a story on KCFR that come summer's end, our weather pattern is likely to switch to cooler and wetter.

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by CosmicWizard

I think I may have felt a drop in Grand Junction yesterday afternoon, or maybe it was just my imagination.

Probably just beads of sweat being blown on you from a guy upwind...

[CosmicWizard]

Katiana wrote:

OTOH, I heard a story on KCFR that come summer's end, our weather pattern is likely to switch to cooler and wetter.

It all evens out in the long run....to keep up the facade of normalcy. Almost invarably, a hot stretch is followed by a cold stretch, and a dry spell is followed by a wet spell. Rarely are temperatures and precipitation NORMAL. Normal is an average calculated over many years. Normalcy is a rarity!

[wanneroo]

Apparently there is going to be a transition from La Nina to El Nino this year.

Here in PA we have resumed getting some regular precipitation, but I am guessing hot and dry for Colorado this summer with probably a good winter after that. I remember the crappy winters of 01-02 and 03-04 had good winters after those dry years.

I'm trying to decide what month to visit this year and was thinking summer, but maybe I will wait until Sept, I dunno. This trip, I'll probably be getting out and checking out a few things I haven't seen for years or having been to most towns/counties in Colorado in my lifetime, I might finish checking off the very few places I have not been. Amazingly I have never been up on Grand Mesa for instance. Just never got around to it.

[vfrpilot]

Woke to snow falling here in Monument. Seems like there is at least 1 snow event every May. We sure needed it