OT weather

[Matthew Carpenter]

Collins Richey wrote:

>On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 07:38:15 +1000
>Keith Antoine <kantoine at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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>>Well I am backup online after one of our severe tropical storms, but
>>we have been lucky really as others have
>>been far worse off then me. 
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>>This is the first time in 15-20 years we have had a monsoon season
>>like we were used to back in the 60's. 
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>We're having a fairly typical winter in Colorado - normal snow storms in
>the mountains, some snow in the city, nothing like the severe drought
>conditions of the past two years.  A typical winter day here on the
>plains east of the mountains is mostly 40-50 F daytime, 20-30 F
>overnight. Sometime between Christmas and mid January, we get a couple
>of days that hover near 0 F.
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>It's not severe weather as much as drouth that is the problem here.
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Wow.  We've been in the negs (-)  overnight and maybe getting up to 
teens in the day.  Couple a feet of snow over the last week or two.  Fun 
stuff, always.  Got my car stuck in my own driveway.  That was bad...