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Wed, May 07, 2008

Sun/Rain

Posted at 10:28 pm MDT to Weather

After work I went over to Costco to buy a few things. It was sunny, with blue sky over head, though there were clouds in the area, and I heard thunder once while I was in the store.

It still managed to rain on me. The upper winds must have been blowing pretty fiercely.

There are more lines of showers moving in from the west: we are definitely out of the winter weather pattern.

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Night Thunder

Posted at 6:38 am MDT to Weather

It look like we have finally shifted out of the winter weather pattern that gave us snow on May Day.

Spring/Summer weather patterns here include thunderstorms, usually in the afternoons.

Last night we had rain -- with special effects -- instead of snow, which is a refreshing change. It was noisy enough to wake me a couple of times. But the worst of the storms seem to have been south of Denver: reports say that the morning rush is being complicated by parts of the interstates that are flooded out.

We need the moisture -- March and April, which are usually our wettest months, set records for dryness. This is not exactly a drought, though, because even though we were dry, the mountains got buried in snow, and most of our water comes from runoff from the snowmelt.

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