Why I Love Living in Colorado!

I moved to Colorado in 1997 from the East Coast. Besides the great outdoors here (minus beaches), I've always thought that Colorado has a perfect climate.

In Delaware, which I always refer to either the Ice Belt or slush belt, we rarely got real snow. Most of the storms came due east from the west and usually occurred at temperatures around 30 degrees, which meant the storm either started or ended as rain. The best snow storms were the ones that came up from the south (gathering Atlantic Ocean moisture with it) and had a cold front in front of it, plunging the temps into the teens and 20's and would drop a foot or more of snow. The best winter there was 1979 when 3 such storms came in. The worst was 1994 when the conditions were just right that we had several Ice Storms--literally frozen rain coming down and creating natures ice rink on our lawns and roads--and folks, you just can't drive on ice.

The rest of winter in Delaware were Overcast warm days and cold sunny days, and the humidity was high, so the cold days in the 40's were bone chilling as well.

Now here in Colorado, we are on the last day of a string of about a week where the temperatures are in the 50's to 70's in January and February. Now of course tomorrow or Sunday it may snow, but right now people are pulling "Colorado Doubles"--Ski in the morning, Golf in the Afternoon.

The snow here is snow--real snow--the white fluffy stuff. Some of the spring storms are more moisture laden, but I can think of only one or two storms where it was slushy/icy. The day after the storms the sun comes up and the roads are bone dry because of the low humidity.

Even when it gets cold here, it doesn't seem as cold because as I always say "It's a dry cold". Single digits here especially when the sun is shining feels much warmer than 30 degrees back in the east.

Our first snow storm in Colorado came in October, 1997 when about three feet were dropped on us on a Friday and Saturday. The kids were ecstatic, because a similar storm had come in Delaware the spring before and they were off from school for an entire week, so they thought they were going to get significant time off from this storm. On Monday they went in an hour or two late. They weren't so gruntled about that.

So I'm going to finish this post and enjoy the weather. Hope it's nice where you are.