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Goodbye Spring, hello snow

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Goodbye Spring, hello snow

Postby Wayne Harrison » May 5, 2007 5:50 pm

Here's what it looks like at my house this evening. I'm at 8,500 feet in the Colorado Rockies:


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Looks like the high country caves are going to be snowed in awhile longer, if they're getting the same stuff.
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Postby wendy » May 5, 2007 8:12 pm

I thought summer and then fall are between spring and winter, weird, stay warm, I couldn't imagine celebrating cinco de mayo in the snow
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Postby Cheryl Jones » May 5, 2007 8:48 pm

Wow! Forget spring....what happened to global warming?!

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Postby Mark620 » May 5, 2007 9:06 pm

What is happening is a result of global warming...
ODD/WEIRD weather patterns...seeming that the seasons are "out of order"/"not continuous"....
"People who really believe that global warming leads us to a doomsday should be treated as mentally ill." Quote : Luboš Motl
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Postby Wayne Harrison » May 5, 2007 9:17 pm

I should point out that this is not unusual weather for this time of year where I live. In May 2001, we got 18 inches of snow. Our last frost is typically May 31.

(Not that I keep track or anything)
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Postby Wayne Harrison » May 6, 2007 9:36 am

Here's what I woke up to this morning:


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Postby Rick Brinkman » May 6, 2007 10:43 am

Those of us in the west know that there are only 3 seasons....

Winter
Still Winter
and Construction.

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Postby Evan G » May 6, 2007 2:17 pm

Rick Brinkman wrote:Those of us in the west know that there are only 3 seasons....

Winter
Still Winter
and Construction.

:laughing:


Around here it is a little different:

Mud Season
Tourist Season
Hunting Season
Ski Season

We had about an inch snow too but it stuck for a couple hours. Very usual for spring in the mountains. Actually this when you must be on your toes, because a spring storm can catch you by surprise.
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Postby Ralph E. Powers » May 6, 2007 3:59 pm

Evan wrote:
Rick Brinkman wrote:Those of us in the west know that there are only 3 seasons....

Winter
Still Winter
and Construction.

:laughing:


Around here it is a little different:

Mud Season
Tourist Season
Hunting Season
Ski Season

We had about an inch snow too but it stuck for a couple hours. Very usual for spring in the mountains. Actually this when you must be on your toes, because a spring storm can catch you by surprise.


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Postby tallgirl » May 6, 2007 7:46 pm

Ralph E. Powers wrote:WHAT? No Caving Season?? for shame!


Caving is year round. Haven't you ever gotten out of a cave, seen fresh snow and gone "ah shit where is the car?" Ever had the mud on your pants freeze and flake off?
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Postby Wayne Harrison » May 6, 2007 8:20 pm

You haven't lived till you've come out of a cave above timberline at night, in a blizzard, and the snow has covered the trail... All you can see is the person in front of you and you face a one-mile hike back to the car.

Added bonus: we were all using carbide and the wind was blowing so hard it blew out our lamps so we had to use those old flashlights with the D cells in them. After you make it to the car and slowly warm up, you are faced with a slippery drive on a winding dirt road that has huge drop-offs on the 14 mile drive down off the mountain.

But things were harder in the olden days.

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