We’ve been tagged as being supposed to have temps in the 90s all week — but the reality has been something different. We’ve had morning and/or afternoon overcast, turning into thunderstorms most days for the last week. On the plus side, that’s meant cooler temps — more like the 80s. On the minus side, it’s been a lot muggier than usual (for Denver).
Nothing earthshattering. Just … different. Summer thunderstorms aren’t unusual for the Front Range, but this year seems to be wetter than most, to me at least. I haven’t actually checked on the stats.
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Wetter here, droughts throughout other parts of the US.
“The thing with Global Warming is that yes, you do get more rain, but you get it in localized areas, in much more intense storms, while other areas become a desert wasteland.”
Rough paraphrase from Inconvenient Truth.
I really need to organized a group trip to that show when he’s in town.
It’s been dry and HOT here in the Land Of Lincoln.
Umm…
No, the past 10 years have been drought years and this is almost a normal year weather wise, even though we (the So. Platte Basin) are still a bit low in the water department, but it is almost spot on for the month.
This is what summer *should* be like in Colorado with Thunder Storms every afternoon.
Right now we are are inbetween the El Nino/La Nina cycles, though Global warming is playing a role in increasing the ocean surface temps. Global Warming will make things be more like what you have become use to since you have lived here, until it will look like Northern and Central New Mexico and the plains slowly begin to the area east of Santa Fe.
Ah. Okay, got it.
No one’s had it worse than Texas. And the thing is Texas hasn’t even had it’s wet season yet…