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Sat, Mar 10, 2007

Rain

Posted at 6:03 pm MST to Miscellaneous

A sign that spring is here: it's precipitating all over the place, but what's falling from the sky is rain, not snow.

This doesn't mean there won't be more snow this season: traditionally the wettest months in the Denver area are March and April and a cold snap can dump a lot of snow on us, and this is still early March. But snow that we get from now on is not likely to stick around long before melting. There are a few patches of snow left where the deepest drifts were, but this rain should get rid of most of them.

And rain is a lot more compact (10 inches of snow is an inch of rain?) and doesn't need shoveling. The precipitation is more than welcome to come as rain.

Maybe it will wash some of the mud off my truck.

My personal rule of thumb: if it snows before noon on the fourth of July, it is ithe last snow of the season, if it snows after noon on the fourth, it is the first snow of the season. I don't actually think I can remember a time when we've had snow at this altitude in July... and I think maybe a dusting once in late August.

But serious overnight coldsnaps with precipitation happen in June and early September enough to make things a challenge for my friends who have an organic farm. Some years they have crops planted in the fields by this time -- Farmers' Market starts the first weekend of April, I think. But I don't think that's the case this year.

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