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Colo.Spgs.CO. Pikes Peak Chapter @ [email protected]

Winter has arrived here in Colorado as today is the first day of summer !! After a week straight of hail storms,tornados, and flooding with no sunshine in a week the plants are at a stand still. Even worse is the fact it is snowing a 20 minute drive from me, and the forcast is for lows in the 30s tonight, with clouds and rain all week,with highs barely reaching 70 and lows in the 40s the rest of the week....I guess our drought is over, winter is here, everything is sopped, and we are on water restrictions to boot.....how much more bizzare can things get....James Kane

6/21/2004 8:57:31 PM

Denver, Co.

Strange times indeed, it's been a while since I've seen it rain like this. Reminds me of growing up in Pennsylvania, lot's of rain there!
I'm looking at the weather calendar for the month & the record low was 39* in 2000 for this date, as a matter of fact the record lows for the rest of the month are all in the low to mid 40s...but the record highs are in the 100* range. Ahhh Summer in the Rockies!
I did get some fertilizer down yesterday, maybe I can get some color back in the grass!

6/21/2004 11:03:42 PM

Cheyenne, Wyoming

We have the same cloudy, cold temps here in Cheyenne. I can't remeber a time when we had rain five days in a row. Our total precipitation for the year before this week was about 2.5 inches. We got that much and more just the past five days.

6/21/2004 11:07:02 PM

Colo.Spgs.CO. Pikes Peak Chapter @ [email protected]

It's ended up being a long evening of cold , that is why I am posting at this hour 3:15 am as it is 36.1 & 98 percent humidity here right now...looks like inevitable summer solstice freeze.....got to mist every 10-15 minutes till the sun starts up. But then the wind and hail may start again if it gets up to 60 - 70 degrees,which means golf ball, 80s= tornados and baseball hail, 90s and maybe the pumpkins might start growing again and the clouds will go away...this weather stinks....

6/22/2004 5:20:20 AM

Colorado Hail, CO. Elev. 5,900 FT

‘Hail Alley’ has history of costly summer storms



By JEREMY MEYER - THE GAZETTE

Tornadoes, wildfires and floods get the media coverage in Colorado, but the biggest threat to Front Range residents, or more precisely to insurance premiums, is hail.

Colorado’s Front Range is in the heart of “Hail Alley,” receiving the highest frequency of large hail in North America and most of the world, according to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Infor- mation Association.

Hail causes $1 billion in damage to the nation’s crops and property annually.

The costliest hailstorm in U.S. history happened in Denver in July 1990, causing $625 million in damage to homes and cars.

During the past 10 years, hailstorms caused $1.7 billion in insured damage in Colorado.

Costs from hail and wind damage account for as much as half of insurance premiums, the insurance industry reports.

A Denver hailstorm two weeks ago caused $146.5 million in damage — the fourthcostliest hailstorm in state history.

Thunderstorms rolled through El Paso County on Sunday, pelting the area with hail and generating a tornado in Black Forest.

To the southeast in Bent County, a twister caused about $75,000 of damage to a hog farm.

The National Weather Service said Coloradans could see more hail this week. The state is in the middle of hail season, which generally lasts from mid-April to mid-August.

This week’s forecast calls for a chance of thunderstorms.

The recent frequency of thunderstorms is a common summertime phenomenon for Colorado, said Carole Walker, executive director of the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association.

A persistent drought has kept the thunderstorms away for the past few years.

“This is more typical,” Walker said. “It’s certainly a wakeup for folks that they need to do maintenance around their homes."

http://www.gazette.com/

6/22/2004 12:38:40 PM

Choctaw, OK

WI is going to Join the club. It hasnt gotten past 75 in the in a while, and the last three nights have been in the mid 40's for lows, and the next 4 nights its going to continue that way with highs just barely at 70. It even got to 35 degrees the other night for a grower about 2 1/2 hours NW of me. Cold and WIND....my plants are turning and gorwing to the NE because of brisk W NW winds. NOw.. we have had some sun and if we didnt have sun...I dont know if we'd even reach mid 60's for highs....but at night its getting clear and cold and isnt going to stop anytime soon. Avg temps are about 80/57 for this time of year up here....we are not even close. Going to have to spray for Mildew in a week or two i think....even earlier than last year.

Case (Fustrated in WI)

6/22/2004 1:24:40 PM

Eveleth MN

yep, frost warning for northern Minnesota tonight, I hope I can find enough sheets to cover all the plants.

6/22/2004 1:43:39 PM

San Luis Obispo Ca

Yes it is snowing in California too.

6/22/2004 9:53:53 PM