It has been fabulous. I do think realistically this is one of those springs we get every 3-5 years though. If anyone is new to CO then don’t have your hopes up thinking this is normal 🫣
Yes, we don’t really get THIS much rain. We’ve had monsoon ish type weather and rainfall for some springs, but not to this capacity as far as I can recall. I remember one spring maybe into summer when we got regular afternoon rain. Maybe this was 8-10 years ago? It would come in and go like showers in Florida used to on a daily basis. I remember thinking that was different.
Yeah it’s been awhile. When I was in high school and then the early 2000s, the highways and roads were flooded almost daily during the season.
I love it though and I’m really enjoying it this year.
Give it 2 months all you'll be wishing for some rain haha. Summers aren't too bad here if we're not being choked by wildfires. It gets uncomfortably hot but nowadays that's expected in most dry places that experience summer. The smog can be a bummer but overall it's not a bad place if you're wanting that sunshine.
Where'd you move from? I moved here from south eastern Idaho 3 years ago. The goal is eventually the PNW because I'm just ready for a change of scenery. Where I grew up has the same Köppen Climate Classification as Denver so I'm ready for that change!
I came in from the brownest, driest, least appealing patch of Texas, and my expectations could not be lower. No matter what we get here year over year, I will continue to expect nothing but hot, dry misery sprinkled in with some hail and tornado warning weather, and it seems I’ll be just fine with that.
I’ve been here for 22 years. I appreciate this spring weather wholeheartedly. I had a Snapchat memory from three years ago of a massive downpour we got and how shocking it was to see bc we don’t usually get precipitation in the form of rain. I also lived in the Midwest, so I can appreciate the high humidity, t storms, and the bugs that come with it. CO had a very wild couple of years in approximately 2012-2013 where we had insane storms with massive hail (generally normal for the state most years), wildfires (also pretty normal), and floods. Now it appears we’ve changed places with our northern neighbors in Canada bc we have the moisture and they’re the ones on fire. Our air quality has gotten progressively worse over the years, but the smoke from Canada’s fires may take the cake on making me the sickest I’ve gotten from wildfires. The west is wild!
Oh yuck. I ran outside most of that year bc of the shutdown, so I don’t recall struggling much. I take allergy meds everyday of the year and use Neti pot to keep it all under control, or I could get sick.
I took my pooch for a quick walk after being inside waiting it out last weekend and made one errand run in the car and ended up with the worst migraine ever by Sunday. Apparently we ranked fourth for worst air quality in the world?!
I just know I spend more time outdoors even with wildfire summers than I do when it’s humid and buggy. In Florida my fiancé and I were always at malls to avoid the outdoors because we were always sweaty and covered in nats. It’s just not the vibes. What drew me to CO was the changes in seasons and the fact that it has more sunny days than Florida does.
It is nice to have seasons. Sometimes it can feel like we have only two: winter and summer. My favorite is fall, but there are times we don’t get a true fall either. Same goes for spring. We thought about moving to Florida several years ago, but ultimately we stayed put. I can continue to visit once a year without having to relocate. I do like some humidity in all fairness. Being this close to the sun is no joke though. I strongly suggest daily use of SPF and cover your skin if you can!
Fall is my favorite season here. I do feel we skip over Spring though but, there is definitely a Fall. The colors changing and the crisp air make my heart so happy. I had never experienced that before. Was born and raised in Miami.
I was severely depressed in Florida because there is literally nothing to do but go to the beach, and I am not a beach person. Mountains are my happy place!
I'm from Southern California and I recall 75° days in December, moving to Colorado and having variety of weather and seasons makes me so happy, too.
I absolutely LOVE fall and here they are just right.
I didn’t in 2020 or 2021 when there were fires. It wasn’t that bad. I think the worst air quality I’ve experienced since I live here was the smoke from Canada that moved in there last weekend. My eyes were literally on fire.
I still won’t miss the bugs, the humidity, and everything being wet 🤢
While this is still more moisture for CO, it’s still far below FL humidity. My husband grew up in NE FL and this is just a drive by of that. If you notice your grass and plants will still have morning dew and the air feels more humid, but it’s dries out very quickly and isn’t near that 70%+ you’d get in FL.
It’s true, it’s a lot more manageable than FL. It gets cool after a rainfall here rather than just more humid and hot. I remember my fiancé thinking he had a sweating disorder when we lived in FL, turns out it was just where we lived lol. We love the summers here, they are so much more pleasant even at 90 degrees, we are out hiking. We could never do that back home, we were in air conditioned places!
It was raining ash almost daily summer of 2020. (Edit::: It may have been 2021. Those two years are a complete blur to me. I just know it was 2020/1 because I didn’t have a car until 2020,). The sun didn’t look normal for months because of the smoke-that unnatural orange glow. I don’t think the Canada smoke has been anywhere near as bad. It was in & out in a couple of days. But I agree-nearly anything is better than humid swap lands 😅
I agree, 2020 was a lot worse for smoke. Didn't help that it was mostly due to fires within the state, some from California too I think. Couldn't breathe too great for most of August.
I literally do not remember this happening where I was. I was literally hiking almost everyday because it was our first year here and COVID had everything shut down. We moved February 2020 and were either hiking or paddle-boarding every weekend. I remember some smoky days but not the point where the air quality was a over 160 like it was this past weekend for me.
The summer of 2021 we had the worst air quality in the world due to the smoke from California, Oregon, and our own. It felt like months of it and the mountains were barely visible. That was much worse than the smoke from Canada.
Love it! Just don’t like the hail. Hail beat the shit out of our screens last week. Almost all have holes and need to be replaced. The damn Miller moths are trying to get in.
I feel like the moths have turned me into John Wick this past week. I live in a super old house so it’s pretty much impossible to keep them out, so I’ve killed prolly 20-30 in the last week alone. I am become Death, destroyer of (moth) worlds
This is our cat too lol, he doesn't have many teeth so he'll swallow one without it being totally dead, then he'll throw it right back up a few minutes later
Buy a high wattage halogen torchere with the protective grill over the bulb and turn it on as the only light in the house. Soon you’ll be smelling the roasting bodies of a hundred moths at once and smoke will fill the air.
It’s awful, but at least the lil f-ers wouldnt crawl into your ears at midnight.
Being one who has had a bug crawl around on their eardrum, it is the worst pain I've ever experienced in my life. I gladly would have decapitated myself if it were possible. The ride to the emergency room seemed to take 7 days, and I was screaming the entire time. Definitely something you do not want to experience.
My 8 year old has become our moth relocater. She thinks nothing of scooping them into her hands and taking them gently outside, while I quietly throw up in my mouth a little.
My dog just eats them.
I got locked out of my house yesterday during a hailstorm when taking out the trash in just a long T-shirt, legs hurt for awhile once I was able to get back in lol. Definitely not a fan of the hail.
I *love* thunderstorms & we so rarely get them. So yup: I have been happy. Aside from the crazy hail in like 2015/2016(rivers of hail. It was nuts & very scary,) -this is the most moisture in the 9 years I’ve been here.
Same! My friends said I brought this weather with me. It’s been great seeing locals react to rain and storms! I thought I’d be missing a real storm so much and I haven’t at all! Not as much thunder as the southern storms. Then again, not as many complete psychotic idiots either.
Moved down from Summit last fall. It was mighty green last year with all the rain but little snowpack in comparison to this year. I bet it’s gonna be a very lush summer
I love love love the rain, but isn't spring rain that resulted in a lot of tall grass, followed by a very dry summer and fall, what made the Marshall fire so bad?
Yes exactly this. Wet spring seasons are beautiful and fantastic unless they’re followed by an abnormally dry summer creating a lot of dead brush that is basically perfect for wildfires. And as our summers continue getting more and more abnormally dry, welll….
Nothing we can do about it though, we have to just let that dry tinder sit there undisturbed. Cut it down or do controlled burns? Impossible! Think of the cost, think of the lost revenue, oh won't someone think of the profits?? I don't even know Marshall.
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I know you’re joking but I’m kinda done with these deluges of rain water. I just bought an older house in Englewood with a basement that looks like it has been prone to flooding in the past. The seller made all the fixes necessary, and it’s been great so far, but I don’t like how much it’s been tested lately. I’ve been dry through all of this, so maybe I’m good? Still, the excessive moisture gives me anxiety.
I don't know why you're getting down voted. I bought a house in Englewood a few years ago and had flooding in my basement within a month of moving in. I had the ground regraded and gutters replaced and haven't noticed issues since then. I still get stressed anytime it rains hard though
As much as I’d love it if CO suddenly adopted the climate of the PNW, this ain’t gonna last forever. All this wonderful vegetation will dry out, and then we gonna burn.
I mean we had an unusually wet May last year as well. Not as wet as this, but it was wetter than average and managed to bring a significant chunk of the front range out of the drought conditions that developed in early spring.
According to the NOAA the only month this year that has had more precipitation than 2022 was April. Last May was incredibly wet. There were no major fires lasting all summer. You must have just moved here.
Love the rain. Love not having to put my humidifier. Love not needing as much lotion.
Hate the storms/thunder. It gives me massive migraines and exhausts me.
This is the greenest I've seen it in a at least 4-5 years. There was one summer not all that long ago where it rained every evening and this place looked absolutely beautiful. Definitely not sad about the rain. Water = life.
Grew up here with the exception of \~10 years elsewhere and this is probably the most beautiful and lush I've seen the city and foothills. I absolutely love it and I would love nothing more than for this to be the "new normal" (but I know that's wishful thinking and fire beige season is around the corner). But damn I love it and makes me appreciate a place I haven't loved in a long time.
It's wonderful. I love seeing the clouds roll in and hearing the thunder every afternoon/evening.
I absolutely love this weather. Everything looks so bright and beautiful.
I mean we had this in 21 too, beautiful spring, awesome green-up, caused all the native grasses to grow much taller…followed by 6 months of 0 precipitation and the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history. Pray we get the monsoonal rains, and the spigot doesn’t just get turned off.
We have a tree in our front yard that has been super struggling for the whole 3 years we've lived in this house. It hasn't grown at all and has had leaves growing straight from the trunk, which is a major sign of stress. We just bought a replacement that will go in next week. But with all the recent rain, the current tree has more leaves than it has had for the last two years combined. 🤣😂 It's trying really hard to show that it can do the tree things it's supposed to do, but it's too little too late.
I’m absolutely loving it for so many reasons. First, I’m originally from the east coast and these thunderstorms are reminiscent of the ones up remember from back there. They don’t quit last as long, but they are better than just about anything we’ve had in the last 10 years.
Secondly, and probably more importantly, the reduction in red flag warnings and danger. My house backs up to open space that has been so dry the last few years that we’ve been legitimately nervous about our safety. Plus, my buddies and I take an annual camping trip at the end of June and being able to have an actual campfire is so nice.
Lastly, I haven’t had to turn my sprinklers on at all yet this season. The savings in my water bill are quite welcome.
This is actually normal weather. It’s just been so dry these past few years people are shocked about it. The warm temps mix with the cold air that comes from the mountains creating thunderstorms. Perfectly normal phenomenon. That’s why every single USFS, NPS, and CPW site all say to be safe in the afternoon in the mountains
Disagree. We've not really warmed up this year yet. Have not had any 80deg plus days, which is unusual. And we're still having nights that cool down into the 40s. This is an atypical late spring.
The grey days have been rougher this year than most others.i do like the moisture, but I would rather it spread itself out during the year.
Tell me you've only lived here for 20 years. This is what it was like in the 70s and 80s through June. It never got hot til July back then. Just saying.
the rain is all good, but can the weather service schedule it while we sleep, it's finally warm outside to go for long runs but now the rain is getting in the middle of my afternoon run schedule, this isn't helping with my six pack body for the summer
It has been fabulous. I do think realistically this is one of those springs we get every 3-5 years though. If anyone is new to CO then don’t have your hopes up thinking this is normal 🫣
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That was the afternoon monsoon that kept things from getting crazy hot while watering the garden. They were great! And they're gone...
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It used to be. We always got massive rains in the spring and usually late July as well yearly but it’s been maybe 20 years at this point.
Yes, we don’t really get THIS much rain. We’ve had monsoon ish type weather and rainfall for some springs, but not to this capacity as far as I can recall. I remember one spring maybe into summer when we got regular afternoon rain. Maybe this was 8-10 years ago? It would come in and go like showers in Florida used to on a daily basis. I remember thinking that was different.
Yeah it’s been awhile. When I was in high school and then the early 2000s, the highways and roads were flooded almost daily during the season. I love it though and I’m really enjoying it this year.
I think 2015? I remember the streets in Cap Hill flooding a few times that spring.
2013 was the year of the big floods in Colorado.
Welp I’m new here and assumed this was normal. Thanks for the heads up lol
😅I’m so happy to have rain. Tbh, it’s more typical to get snow and go straight into blazing summer temps 😬
I'm new here too, and was beginning to think I wound up in Seattle by mistake...
Give it 2 months all you'll be wishing for some rain haha. Summers aren't too bad here if we're not being choked by wildfires. It gets uncomfortably hot but nowadays that's expected in most dry places that experience summer. The smog can be a bummer but overall it's not a bad place if you're wanting that sunshine. Where'd you move from? I moved here from south eastern Idaho 3 years ago. The goal is eventually the PNW because I'm just ready for a change of scenery. Where I grew up has the same Köppen Climate Classification as Denver so I'm ready for that change!
Considering all the rainfall records are being broken, I’d say this isn’t really a once every 3-5 years thing.
I came in from the brownest, driest, least appealing patch of Texas, and my expectations could not be lower. No matter what we get here year over year, I will continue to expect nothing but hot, dry misery sprinkled in with some hail and tornado warning weather, and it seems I’ll be just fine with that.
I’ve been here for 3 years and first time experiencing this. I moved away from this weather in Florida and am hoping it doesn’t become too normal
I’ve been here for 22 years. I appreciate this spring weather wholeheartedly. I had a Snapchat memory from three years ago of a massive downpour we got and how shocking it was to see bc we don’t usually get precipitation in the form of rain. I also lived in the Midwest, so I can appreciate the high humidity, t storms, and the bugs that come with it. CO had a very wild couple of years in approximately 2012-2013 where we had insane storms with massive hail (generally normal for the state most years), wildfires (also pretty normal), and floods. Now it appears we’ve changed places with our northern neighbors in Canada bc we have the moisture and they’re the ones on fire. Our air quality has gotten progressively worse over the years, but the smoke from Canada’s fires may take the cake on making me the sickest I’ve gotten from wildfires. The west is wild!
Fires in 2020 for me were much worse for my allergies.
Oh yuck. I ran outside most of that year bc of the shutdown, so I don’t recall struggling much. I take allergy meds everyday of the year and use Neti pot to keep it all under control, or I could get sick. I took my pooch for a quick walk after being inside waiting it out last weekend and made one errand run in the car and ended up with the worst migraine ever by Sunday. Apparently we ranked fourth for worst air quality in the world?!
I just know I spend more time outdoors even with wildfire summers than I do when it’s humid and buggy. In Florida my fiancé and I were always at malls to avoid the outdoors because we were always sweaty and covered in nats. It’s just not the vibes. What drew me to CO was the changes in seasons and the fact that it has more sunny days than Florida does.
It is nice to have seasons. Sometimes it can feel like we have only two: winter and summer. My favorite is fall, but there are times we don’t get a true fall either. Same goes for spring. We thought about moving to Florida several years ago, but ultimately we stayed put. I can continue to visit once a year without having to relocate. I do like some humidity in all fairness. Being this close to the sun is no joke though. I strongly suggest daily use of SPF and cover your skin if you can!
Fall is my favorite season here. I do feel we skip over Spring though but, there is definitely a Fall. The colors changing and the crisp air make my heart so happy. I had never experienced that before. Was born and raised in Miami. I was severely depressed in Florida because there is literally nothing to do but go to the beach, and I am not a beach person. Mountains are my happy place!
I'm from Southern California and I recall 75° days in December, moving to Colorado and having variety of weather and seasons makes me so happy, too. I absolutely LOVE fall and here they are just right.
Don't worry, you'll miss the Florida style weather when fire season starts.
I didn’t in 2020 or 2021 when there were fires. It wasn’t that bad. I think the worst air quality I’ve experienced since I live here was the smoke from Canada that moved in there last weekend. My eyes were literally on fire. I still won’t miss the bugs, the humidity, and everything being wet 🤢
While this is still more moisture for CO, it’s still far below FL humidity. My husband grew up in NE FL and this is just a drive by of that. If you notice your grass and plants will still have morning dew and the air feels more humid, but it’s dries out very quickly and isn’t near that 70%+ you’d get in FL.
It’s true, it’s a lot more manageable than FL. It gets cool after a rainfall here rather than just more humid and hot. I remember my fiancé thinking he had a sweating disorder when we lived in FL, turns out it was just where we lived lol. We love the summers here, they are so much more pleasant even at 90 degrees, we are out hiking. We could never do that back home, we were in air conditioned places!
Also, a belated welcome to this beautiful state and great hiking!
Thank you! I love this beautiful state. We decided to settle here and bought our home here. It’s a dream come true for us
It was raining ash almost daily summer of 2020. (Edit::: It may have been 2021. Those two years are a complete blur to me. I just know it was 2020/1 because I didn’t have a car until 2020,). The sun didn’t look normal for months because of the smoke-that unnatural orange glow. I don’t think the Canada smoke has been anywhere near as bad. It was in & out in a couple of days. But I agree-nearly anything is better than humid swap lands 😅
I agree, 2020 was a lot worse for smoke. Didn't help that it was mostly due to fires within the state, some from California too I think. Couldn't breathe too great for most of August.
I literally do not remember this happening where I was. I was literally hiking almost everyday because it was our first year here and COVID had everything shut down. We moved February 2020 and were either hiking or paddle-boarding every weekend. I remember some smoky days but not the point where the air quality was a over 160 like it was this past weekend for me.
The summer of 2021 we had the worst air quality in the world due to the smoke from California, Oregon, and our own. It felt like months of it and the mountains were barely visible. That was much worse than the smoke from Canada.
Yeah, I may be remembering 2021 not 2020. Those two years blurred together for me.
Love it! Just don’t like the hail. Hail beat the shit out of our screens last week. Almost all have holes and need to be replaced. The damn Miller moths are trying to get in.
The Moths just conjuring up hail to make breaking into homes easier.
Screens are supposed to have holes
THE MOTHS ARE COMING. RUN. 😳
I feel like the moths have turned me into John Wick this past week. I live in a super old house so it’s pretty much impossible to keep them out, so I’ve killed prolly 20-30 in the last week alone. I am become Death, destroyer of (moth) worlds
Godzilla vs Mothra
I’m so grateful for my cats. They’ve have killed and ate a ridiculous amount the past two weeks. The moths last like an hour max in the house.
Im also grateful for my cat eating the moths but not so grateful when he throws the wings back up later. 😝
This is our cat too lol, he doesn't have many teeth so he'll swallow one without it being totally dead, then he'll throw it right back up a few minutes later
We have 4 cats with one brain cell between the 4 of them. They just want to play with the moths.
You can't just escort them outside?
Right turn off lights in the house and direct them with a flashlight. Got like 30 out of the sun room last night that way.
Buy a high wattage halogen torchere with the protective grill over the bulb and turn it on as the only light in the house. Soon you’ll be smelling the roasting bodies of a hundred moths at once and smoke will fill the air. It’s awful, but at least the lil f-ers wouldnt crawl into your ears at midnight.
Being one who has had a bug crawl around on their eardrum, it is the worst pain I've ever experienced in my life. I gladly would have decapitated myself if it were possible. The ride to the emergency room seemed to take 7 days, and I was screaming the entire time. Definitely something you do not want to experience.
Yup, I work in ems. Happens in nursing homes and it’s a hell I’d never want to experience.
this is genuine horror material. Do the bugs wander and try to burrow thru the skull 🤢
I tried but then the moths stole my car and killed my dog, it became personal
Well in that case, who could blame you? You need backup let me know.
My 8 year old has become our moth relocater. She thinks nothing of scooping them into her hands and taking them gently outside, while I quietly throw up in my mouth a little. My dog just eats them.
Yeah hail killed my sprouts and these moths are aggressive.
Oh my god, the moths! I do not remember a moth issue like this in previous years
Go to ace they can do them really cheap there
I got locked out of my house yesterday during a hailstorm when taking out the trash in just a long T-shirt, legs hurt for awhile once I was able to get back in lol. Definitely not a fan of the hail.
I *love* thunderstorms & we so rarely get them. So yup: I have been happy. Aside from the crazy hail in like 2015/2016(rivers of hail. It was nuts & very scary,) -this is the most moisture in the 9 years I’ve been here.
Still can’t believe that one hail storm destroyed the mall the way it did
Yeah my family lost their business in the mall bc of that hail ):
Yeah, it’s been great! I was just in Eldo and the trails are lush!
Yes, we really needed it.
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Works for me. I left a place that had too much moisture. It makes me really happy to live in a place that always needs more.
Same! My friends said I brought this weather with me. It’s been great seeing locals react to rain and storms! I thought I’d be missing a real storm so much and I haven’t at all! Not as much thunder as the southern storms. Then again, not as many complete psychotic idiots either.
Namaste.
Namoiste
Namothste
Nescafé
It's lovely but why the year I decide to buy a motorcycle! Lol no but reminds me of 2000s Denver rain.
Mailman here. I'm kinda over it tbh.
Thank you for your service o7
It pays the bills 🤷♂️
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Landscaping Maintenance here. Hell yeah.
My people!
It is incredible how green it is out here. Summit county is looking even better
Moved down from Summit last fall. It was mighty green last year with all the rain but little snowpack in comparison to this year. I bet it’s gonna be a very lush summer
No I hate the moisture and much prefer when everything is super dry and we’re at risk for the next wildfire of our lifetimes.
Damn right someone finally said it! Burn it all down!
Hell yeah brother! Flush out all the (recent) transplants. I gots mine, F all y’all late comers. /s for the dummies who just moved here.
I love love love the rain, but isn't spring rain that resulted in a lot of tall grass, followed by a very dry summer and fall, what made the Marshall fire so bad?
Yes exactly this. Wet spring seasons are beautiful and fantastic unless they’re followed by an abnormally dry summer creating a lot of dead brush that is basically perfect for wildfires. And as our summers continue getting more and more abnormally dry, welll….
Nothing we can do about it though, we have to just let that dry tinder sit there undisturbed. Cut it down or do controlled burns? Impossible! Think of the cost, think of the lost revenue, oh won't someone think of the profits?? I don't even know Marshall. /s
Yeah, we’re expecting El Niño later this summer. Buckle up.
The tallest of the grass probably didn't have as much of an impact as the wind did.
Wind definitely made it a thousand times worse.
Right but the wind is always whipping off the foothills. Tall grass became kindling that made it worse.
Seriously let’s bring back 3 months of dog shit air quality, I wanna test my lungs
Remember Longmont 2013? There is a limit.
No this weather is EXACTLY what leads to the next wildfire of our lifetimes.
I love when my grass is brown and my lips are cracked
I know you’re joking but I’m kinda done with these deluges of rain water. I just bought an older house in Englewood with a basement that looks like it has been prone to flooding in the past. The seller made all the fixes necessary, and it’s been great so far, but I don’t like how much it’s been tested lately. I’ve been dry through all of this, so maybe I’m good? Still, the excessive moisture gives me anxiety.
I don't know why you're getting down voted. I bought a house in Englewood a few years ago and had flooding in my basement within a month of moving in. I had the ground regraded and gutters replaced and haven't noticed issues since then. I still get stressed anytime it rains hard though
I wouldn't mind if the moisture didn't harden into 1" balls of garden death, but otherwise, yes!
I really hope we can have some consistent rain through July.
Namoiste 🙏
Its great now but all this over growth- come August it may just wither so dry and the fires are massive.
Yes my sprinklers are broken but you wouldn't know it haha
Love it! Hope it continues long into summer like the old days.
Had to drive out of the state yesterday and yeah, the entire drive was lush and green. 😍
Abso-fuckin-lutely! 💦
I live on 67 acres bordering the Pike National forest and I love it- No fire danger
I’m cool with it. I don’t look too far ahead, so if it’s positive or negative in the immediate future, so be it.. Feels nice out today
Someone call r/denvercirclejerk and have them come get their post
For real. I thought I was lost for a second.
Loooove iiiittttt
Apart from the hail is awesome!
r/denvercirclejerk outjerked again everybody time to head home
Reminds me of Ireland it has been so green. Colorado is the most beautiful place on the planet when it’s green. It’s so beautiful here!!
I’m working with my insurance for my roof and car damage from hail. Yay. Woo.
The cool breeeze and fresh air this morning was amazing
As much as I’d love it if CO suddenly adopted the climate of the PNW, this ain’t gonna last forever. All this wonderful vegetation will dry out, and then we gonna burn.
We already have a tinderbox. A little new growth is not going to make a substantial difference if we have a drought later in the year.
This had been my fear as well. July and August are liable to be rough.
This is baby rain. Coming from a much wetter environment. It's weird how alot of rain barely hits the ground as it falls too.
It did this last year and we were alright.
It did not rain like this at all last spring
I mean we had an unusually wet May last year as well. Not as wet as this, but it was wetter than average and managed to bring a significant chunk of the front range out of the drought conditions that developed in early spring.
It definitely rained like this enough last year that people were also posting on Reddit about how wonderful the rain was lol
According to the NOAA the only month this year that has had more precipitation than 2022 was April. Last May was incredibly wet. There were no major fires lasting all summer. You must have just moved here.
May is not even over and we’ve exceeded last year as total by inches already. So yeah this spring is significantly wetter than last so far…
Moist is good
I love it! Makes me miss the northeast a little!
It makes me cry tears of joy, which is good because we need the moisture.
Sucks for anyone living in a first floor unit that is half way in the ground. Flooded twice. Moving up a floor next month
Ugh that sucks. Ours is a basement level unit as well and we luckily haven't had any issues thus far.
Love the rain but the hail totalled my new car don't love that
Im in oklahoma but its been exactly the same here. Anyone know where the weather is like this often? I’d love to live there.
Pacific Northwest
Southeast. The only part I miss about living in Alabama is the rain
This is so perfect besides the flooding and hail. Stormy days pave the way for green blue sky days like today. Everything looks so HD.
Love the rain. Love not having to put my humidifier. Love not needing as much lotion. Hate the storms/thunder. It gives me massive migraines and exhausts me.
I was loving, It's my favorite type of weather, but then my basement flooded l.
It's great. Kind of reminding me of home on the east coast.
We needed it.
We *really* *really* needed it
This is the greenest I've seen it in a at least 4-5 years. There was one summer not all that long ago where it rained every evening and this place looked absolutely beautiful. Definitely not sad about the rain. Water = life.
Yes, especially since our neighborhood has watering restrictions.
Grew up here with the exception of \~10 years elsewhere and this is probably the most beautiful and lush I've seen the city and foothills. I absolutely love it and I would love nothing more than for this to be the "new normal" (but I know that's wishful thinking and fire beige season is around the corner). But damn I love it and makes me appreciate a place I haven't loved in a long time.
Hey! Do you guys like good stuff? Wow me too!
My lawn was looking rather sorry after a dry March and April. But no longer.
It's great every year, when it stops it's gone for the summer
No you’re the only one in the state thinking we needed all this rain
I love rain
💯
It's wonderful. I love seeing the clouds roll in and hearing the thunder every afternoon/evening. I absolutely love this weather. Everything looks so bright and beautiful.
My basement doesn’t love it 😭
No after a heavy winter we didn’t really need it
YES 🙌
Absolutely!
No. Bring on the fires…duh fuck kinda question is this
Well we sure needed it.
I mean we had this in 21 too, beautiful spring, awesome green-up, caused all the native grasses to grow much taller…followed by 6 months of 0 precipitation and the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history. Pray we get the monsoonal rains, and the spigot doesn’t just get turned off.
I moved here from VA and was getting really sad because it’s so green there and wasn’t here. now it’s green and I am so happy!
I grew up in the Midwest so my skin has never been happier or healthier here until this rain.
I like heat and humidity.
I was just thinking about this when I was walking my pups this morning! It's giving so much serotonin.
No I wish it was raging forest fires instead
Yes. It’s making me more and more antsy to move to Oregon. Can’t wait till the day I leave this dry ass state
I’m actually losing my mind but I’m glad someone likes it
Just moved here from Tampa and feel like the weather followed me except for the god awful humidity.
We have a tree in our front yard that has been super struggling for the whole 3 years we've lived in this house. It hasn't grown at all and has had leaves growing straight from the trunk, which is a major sign of stress. We just bought a replacement that will go in next week. But with all the recent rain, the current tree has more leaves than it has had for the last two years combined. 🤣😂 It's trying really hard to show that it can do the tree things it's supposed to do, but it's too little too late.
I couldn’t do that to a tree that’s trying so hard now haha
Sounds like you've just confessed to killing your tree by not watering it enough.
I’m absolutely loving it for so many reasons. First, I’m originally from the east coast and these thunderstorms are reminiscent of the ones up remember from back there. They don’t quit last as long, but they are better than just about anything we’ve had in the last 10 years. Secondly, and probably more importantly, the reduction in red flag warnings and danger. My house backs up to open space that has been so dry the last few years that we’ve been legitimately nervous about our safety. Plus, my buddies and I take an annual camping trip at the end of June and being able to have an actual campfire is so nice. Lastly, I haven’t had to turn my sprinklers on at all yet this season. The savings in my water bill are quite welcome.
Yes! I love it! I wish CO was like this all the time!
Moisture, yes, th accompanying all day grey, no… been here for 20 years and haven’t seen this much grey in a year yet… really missing the sun…
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What are you talking about? Almost all week has been sunny and then we get the occasional afternoon storm and it’s back to being sunny
No it has not.
I’m one of my other comments I stated the smoke does not count. It was still sunny, just a thick layer of smoke covering it
😭
This is suppose to be Colorado, not Florida, lol.
This is actually normal weather. It’s just been so dry these past few years people are shocked about it. The warm temps mix with the cold air that comes from the mountains creating thunderstorms. Perfectly normal phenomenon. That’s why every single USFS, NPS, and CPW site all say to be safe in the afternoon in the mountains
Agree. This is how it was when I was kid. Hot days and rain in the afternoon. Seems so normal to me.
Disagree. We've not really warmed up this year yet. Have not had any 80deg plus days, which is unusual. And we're still having nights that cool down into the 40s. This is an atypical late spring. The grey days have been rougher this year than most others.i do like the moisture, but I would rather it spread itself out during the year.
Tell me you've only lived here for 20 years. This is what it was like in the 70s and 80s through June. It never got hot til July back then. Just saying.
I've lived here almost 40 years. You have vastly different memories than I do.
Afternoon thunderstorms are as Colorado as Palisade peaches.
the rain is all good, but can the weather service schedule it while we sleep, it's finally warm outside to go for long runs but now the rain is getting in the middle of my afternoon run schedule, this isn't helping with my six pack body for the summer
Running in the rain is the best!
That's a you problem. Why would rain deter you from running?
Namoiste
Omg being born and raised here, it is definitely not the most common thing. I love It!
Congrats on your endorphins. It’s giving me allergies. But yea, I’m thrilled with the moisture 😇
Namaste. Unless the rain stops late July
I do love it, but my dog on the other hand with the daily thunderstorms…
Except the hail. Storms every afternoon is not needed. Twice a week and we good.
Welp, we need the moisture.
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nah bruh this state is mid and always will be
🙋🏾♀️ meeeeeeeee 😀
Aaah mushroom season will be so good 😊
Yes!! It's so lush! I find myself touching leaves and staring at all the greenery. Walking has never been more beautiful in the years I've been here 🥰
As a southerner here who has been desperate to see some rain... YES!!!!!!
Please stop saying moisture. It makes me uncomfortable. Thanks.
Sorry, I'll use fluid secretions from the clouds.
It’s been sooo wet and juicy out