We are freezing in Colorado!

[Laffy Kat]

Currently, Boulder County is about 20 degrees and it's snowing like crazy. It is predicted to get down to 1 F tonight with snow continuing through tomorrow. At least the snow is light enough to sweep away.

Does anyone want to add a report from your town, state, county?

[madamesilverspurs]

1. In Greeley it's 9 degrees, snowing lightly.

College kids neighbors are having fun outside. I'm inside in jammies, fixing soup.


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[Laffy Kat]

23. Perfect night for soup.

I'm in my jams, too.

[riversedge]

2. mid WI, Tonight Mar 2 -12

you are downright warm compared to us.



Wind Chill Advisory
...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM ...



Tonight
Mar 2
-12°
Lo
RealFeel® -17°
Patchy clouds; bitterly cold

[Laffy Kat]

24. Yes, compared to that we're balmy.

My son goes to school in Ripon and I keep my eye on the weather up there. He'll be home for spring break in a couple of weeks. I hope we warm up before then.

[chillfactor]

3. I live in the Sandia Mountains.....

just east of Albuquerque.….beautiful day here....56 no wind.....clear blue skies. Had the screen doors open on the patio door and the front door. Love fresh air in the house after the cold days of winter. Sorry you are having such horrendous weather.

[lunasun]

12. When does the windy season start there ? I heard there is a windy spring season - what does

that mean? The reason I am asking is because I may have work for a few days @the end of the month in Albuquerque
I’ve never been to Albuquerque or anywhere in NM . I want to check it out and will appreciate the warmer weather you folks have, since I’m in Chicago 🥶

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

16. No real windy season in New Mexico.

I've lived in Santa Fe for nearly 11 years now, and while sometimes it's windy, no windy season. However, along the Front Range in Colorado, which includes Boulder, there is a fall and spring windy season. Gusts often over 100 mph. When I lived there, I'd listen to the wind at night, and then in the morning would listen to the local NPR station telling me what the wind gusts had been the night before. Got so I could correctly guess the wind to within 5mph.

[likesmountains 52]

17. Whoa, all of a sudden thinder and lightning very close! Durango

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

22. Thunder and lightning, yes!

I am a fan of violent weather.

For 18 years I lived in Overland Park, KS, and I want to say that the most violent weather I ever saw was when I lived in Kansas. Although, the only time I ever saw a funnel cloud was when I was in Boulder, CO, looking east towards Denver. Anyway, living in Kansas is giant fun and lots of excitement, what with tornado warnings and tornadoes themselves.

In 2004 I was a strong Howard Dean fan, and in May of that year went to a small meet and greet with him in Kansas City. My husband, who worked in Lawrence, KS, at the time, was unable to make it because tornadoes had passed through Lawrence and he just couldn't get away. As I recall, serious tornadoes did a lot of damage around Kansas City. My favorite memory is standing next to him on the balcony of the private home we were in, and enthusing about the Midwest weather. It was fun, because he was trying to be your basic reasonably macho guy, not obnoxious at all, but clearly not even remotely used to that kind of weather. Howard Dean was a great guy, regardless of the local weather.

[Laffy Kat]

39. Is it rain or thunder snow? nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

49. Durango isn't very close to Santa Fe.

[likesmountains 52]

64. I replied in the wrong place. I meant close to my house!

[Laffy Kat]

25. Sounds lovely there. I've always liked NM. nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

51. New Mexico is wonderful.

I moved here nearly 11 years ago from Kansas, after a divorce. In recent years I'm inclined to say that in my fondest fantasies that my marriage had not come to an end, I don't think I could have persuaded him to move to NM.

I got to start a new life here, and it's been great.

I will always encourage others to be willing to relocate. While I can see how truly wonderful it can be to live in the same place your entire life or even for many years, I'm personally persuaded that living in different places is even better.

Here's a trivial example. Here in Santa Fe, unlike anywhere else I've ever lived, the vast majority of people use their garages to store their excess crap. Not for their cars. I good friend who has lived here since 1974 simply thinks that everyone uses their garages this way. I keep on telling him, "Not in anywhere else I've lived." Again, this is a trivial example, but it points out what is gained by living in different places.

Heck, several years ago I started getting itchy feet, and as much as I like this place I keep on thinking that it's time to move on. What mainly holds me back is that there's not some other place that is calling to me, and I'm far too aware of the financial costs of moving. I have a fair amount of stuff, and some of that stuff, like my wedding china (which was recently promoted to being my every day china) I'm not willing to give up.

In the first ten years of my marriage we moved approximately every two years, and so during that time I was good at getting rid of excess. Then we stayed put. Stuff accumulated. My personal problem is books. I have far too many of them, and I try very hard not to purchase too many, but still. . . . My excuses is that I know a lot of writers, and so of course I purchase their books. Sigh.

If you've never visited this wonderful state, try to do so. There is so very much to see and do here. And we'd all love to see you, of course.

[Autumn]

4. 26 here in Springs. Hubby will be hauling out the snow blower sometime tomorrow.

[Laffy Kat]

26. It looks like you've been a little warmer than us all week.

Hope your snow isn't heavy, although having a blower helps. I was able to use my broom earlier but you can't even tell I went out there now. It's going to have to wait until the morning now.

[Autumn]

29. I want winter to die already. Enough is enough.

[Laffy Kat]

40. Well don't forget March is usually our snowiest month.

[Autumn]

42. It is, and then a day or so of spring and then heat going into hail

[Laffy Kat]

45. Yep, gosh, the hail. nt

[randr]

5. In the 40s all day in west slope valleys

Lots of snow up high with rain all day down low. May cool down enough tonite to see snow in morn with ditto manana

[csziggy]

6. We're close to underwater here in Tallahassee

Well, that is a bit of an exaggeration - our farm is on top of a solid red clay ridge 200 feet above sea level. But it has been the rainiest several years I can remember since I moved here in 1972, including three hurricanes (Hermione 2016, Irma 2017, and Michael 2018).

Last year was so wet the hay farmers could grow and cut lots of hay but could never cure it. They could get 2-3 days of sunshine but it would rain before the hay was dry enough to bail. If you bail wet hay it can catch fire from the internal heat so lots of hay got wasted. Now there is a shortage.

Of course, next week we're supposed to startnew terraces around the house. The limestone rocks got delivered Thursday and Friday - one dump truck almost got stuck so the rest of the rocks are not as close to the site as we'd like. The chance of rain Sunday night is 80% so I am not sure if they will be able to start the work with the saturated ground.

It just started raining again. We've gotten two inches in the last two days

[Lochloosa]

10. Same in Jacksonville. Been raining all day

[Laffy Kat]

28. My sis lives in Monticello.

I know how wet it can get there. I always enjoy visiting northern Florida, there's nothing quite like it, although I can live without the ticks.

[csziggy]

54. The ticks are horrible this year

My oldest mare is already covered in them - we got the spot control stuff to put on her since that is the only thing that works for her.. We never got a good freeze this winter so the ticks and mosquitoes are out early for blood.

I haven't even been over to Monticello in years. Between all the surgeries I have had in the last ten years and the several deaths in the family, getting to the neighboring towns has just not happened. Maybe next year...

[jberryhill]

7. Until I can stay inside from the cold and smoke legal weed...

...I will feel no pity for the good people of Colorado.

[trc]

20. lol, Holla!

[beveeheart]

8. About the same here in

Broomfield, Laffy Kat. Hope you don't have to go out tomorrow.

[Laffy Kat]

30. I'll probably just go out to walk the pups but I won't be out long.

I went to King Soopers today and stocked up on groceries. We are so close, we need to meet for coffee or something!

[beveeheart]

53. Yes, I'd like to do that.

Soon as the snow melts?

[Delmette2.0]

9. Helena, Montana

We are expecting 20 below tonight, yep -20. Some towns along the Canadian border had -30 last night, so we are getting off easy.

[Laffy Kat]

41. Yikes, Delmette2.0.

That's downright dangerous.

[Delmette2.0]

63. Good news, we only got down to -9.

The Arctic air has some wind with it so the whole system may have moved off to the east a little faster than expected.

[ProudLib72]

11. We are having just about the same weather as you guys

Way over here in Gunbarrel.

[JDC]

13. About 14 degrees in Parker, CO

Snow has been light and didn't start til 4 or so. We'll see what happens, but hoping for some more snow tbh.

[Laffy Kat]

37. Ours started in earnest about then, too. nt

[El Supremo]

14. 12 above in Aurora

The peak of the snow is now falling but it is dry and light.

Low predicted to be 5 above.

[likesmountains 52]

15. SW Colorado

35, rain/snow combo in town, but good snowfall > 7500 feet.

[Laffy Kat]

31. We need the moisture.

I really don't mind the snow; we get it in small doses, usually.

[Yonnie3]

18. A balmy 46 here in Central Virginia

Dropping temperatures and more rain coming. It will be around freezing midday Sunday with precipitation of mixed type. I'd rather just have snow than sleet and freezing rain followed by snow.

[Laffy Kat]

43. And then you'll have a beautiful green spring.

I do miss the trees here.

[Yonnie3]

48. Yeah, with plenty of mud and mosquitoes

My brother is in Boulder.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

19. Santa Fe, NM.

All day in the 50's with intermittent sunshine. Around sunset it started raining. Almost like a gloomy, rainy afternoon in some other part of the country, which I actually love. Still raining very lightly as I type this.

Oh, and some time ago I lived in Boulder and one of the things I loved about it was that the snow was always light and I rarely had to actually shovel. Could just sweep it off the driveway and sidewalk. Well, except for the times it snowed 12 inches or more, which happened fairly often, come to think of it. But almost invariably, after a snowfall, within 48 hours it would get back up to 60 degrees and the snow was all gone. Which is why I didn't see any point in buying my kids a sled. Why bother if it wasn't going to last more than a day?

Here is why I loved living in Boulder so much: My older son was in kindergarten. Half day, he was in the morning half. The moms waiting to pick their kids up became friends, and so in January of his kindergarten year we started a thing where on Fridays, after we'd fed our kids, we'd rendezvous at a particular local park. Kids and younger siblings played, moms chatted. It was great. And here's the thing. Starting in JANUARY, we only missed 2 Fridays because one day the weather was crappy that day, and the other it was still very wet from a snowfall a couple of days earlier. Every other Friday for some five months we were able to do this.

Especially when my kids were little I judged the desirability of a place we lived by how much time they could be outside. Boulder won, hands down.

I think if I currently had little kids Santa Fe would tie. Especially as we tend to get far less snow, although we don't have the temps climbing to 60 degrees in the middle of winter. So, okay, a close second.

[Laffy Kat]

33. People don't realize what mild weather we have in this part of Colorado.

You are so right. One day you have to bundle up and the next you can go out in a tee-shirt.

I had a mom's group like that when my kids were young and still keep in touch with two of the women.

[love_katz]

21. Much colder than usual in the Pacific northwest.

High temperature today was in the low to mid-40's, but the northeast wind has been howling out of the Columbia Gorge. The wind chill right now is 28 degrees, and the forecast low tonight is 27degrees. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!

[Laffy Kat]

34. So it's more humid there. That can be mighty uncomfortable. nt

[keith sw]

27. 82 today

In sunny Fort Myers Beach

[Laffy Kat]

36. Sigh. nt

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

32. It's freezing here in Palm Springs as well.

Yesterday the high was only 81 degrees, and tonight it's supposed to get down to a bone-numbing 54.

[Laffy Kat]

35. Oh, poor you!

[TheOther95Percent]

38. 40 degrees in NYC

We have a winter storm warning starting Sunday afternoon through Monday morning with snowfall accumulations in the 4 to 6 inch range. Anyone on my staff who commutes it via surface transportation will probably work from home.

[Laffy Kat]

46. I know. You're going to be hit by this same system, I think. nt

[mr_lebowski]

44. I was just outside vaping in my knee-length pj bottoms, a thin t-shirt, and flip-flops

The bottoms ARE made of flannel though ...

Come to think of it, if it keeps cooling off like it is ... I may have to put on some boxers under my pjs ... AND MAYBE even my furry slippers ... before going outside

(Maricopa County, AZ)

[Laffy Kat]

47. Um, thanks for the report, I think?

[mr_lebowski]

50. No Problem. And hey, you can joke with me around July when my AC is running 24/7 ...

And it's between 90F and 116F for 2 entire months straight ... night and day ... cause THAT'S awesome.

[lordsummerisle]

52. It's 10 degrees and getting colder...

[curlyred]

55. In Lakewood

Ten degrees and snowing.

[hibbing]

56. Phhhtt, we get -9 Sunday night n/t

[akraven]

57. Totally weird - it's 17 above and clear -

in Fairbanks, Alaska...…….

Average is -10 to -15.

[cilla4progress]

58. Bozeman, MT checking in at 6 below

Forecast for overnight/ tomorrow is 19 below. Wind chill minus 27! About 3 feet of snow.

I snowshoed up a steep trail in 1 degree and got hot! I was all Nanuked out and encountered a trail runner at the bottom in running tights and shoes!

Crazy kids!

[littlemissmartypants]

59. Drizzle

Highs, mid 60s, lows, mid 50s. But predicted 40s, 20s by Wednesday. No more rain in the forecast for a week.

[subterranean]

60. Pretty nice at the moment up here in the Seattle area.

The last two days have been sunny and near 50 degrees. Can't complain about that, especially after the cold and snowy February we just experienced!

[Texasgal]

61. Austin, TX.

Today was overcast and in the mid 50's. We are expecting this polar blast that will put us in the low 40's to 20's tomorrow night! YIKES! We Texans are not used this type of cold!

BRRRRR!

[rownesheck]

62. 63 degrees

in northeast Houston area. I'm headed to Colorado next week for vacation with wife's family. As i get older, I'm liking cold weather a lot less. Looking forward to staying inside near a fireplace for the entire week. Once again, I'll be playing the anti social one!