First real thunderstorm of the year

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Scouzer

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Love it. Continuous lightning and thunder, the rain is pouring but no damaging hail. What a perfect storm!
 

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Colorado does get some good rain in the spring, but this last month has been very heavy. The last couple of days are the first without rain I can remember since halfway through May. Some pretty heavy storms too. It hasn't been uncommon for the tornado sirens to be going off daily, good hail, strong winds, etc...

We had a very dry winter, and mother nature decided to make up for it in spades in May and June.
 

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Originally posted by: Scouzer
Love it. Continuous lightning and thunder, the rain is pouring but no damaging hail. What a perfect storm!
pfft, we've already gone through maybe 20 thunderstorms so far this year.

In fact it's raining outside right now.
 

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Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
Colorado does get some good rain in the spring, but this last month has been very heavy. The last couple of days are the first without rain I can remember since halfway through May. Some pretty heavy storms too. It hasn't been uncommon for the tornado sirens to be going off daily, good hail, strong winds, etc...

We had a very dry winter, and mother nature decided to make up for it in spades in May and June.

The last time I was in Colorado (middle school for SO nationals) the weather there was insane. We were coming back from Pikes Peak and the weather was nice and warm (around 70). Well, at one point on the way back the temperature dropped drastically and a blizzard came out of no where. Then, after that, a tornado watch/warning was issued. I've never witnessed anything like that in my life since.
 

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Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Originally posted by: Scouzer
Love it. Continuous lightning and thunder, the rain is pouring but no damaging hail. What a perfect storm!
pfft, we've already gone through maybe 20 thunderstorms so far this year.

In fact it's raining outside right now.

well 2 weeks ago, it was a constant rain/ thunder for every day for 4 weeks (ie 6 weeks ago it started, ended 2 weeks ago)
 

Scouzer

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Originally posted by: freshgeardude
Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Originally posted by: Scouzer
Love it. Continuous lightning and thunder, the rain is pouring but no damaging hail. What a perfect storm!
pfft, we've already gone through maybe 20 thunderstorms so far this year.

In fact it's raining outside right now.

well 2 weeks ago, it was a constant rain/ thunder for every day for 4 weeks (ie 6 weeks ago it started, ended 2 weeks ago)

god i wish :( we get maybe 4-5 storms a year
 

Gooberlx2

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Originally posted by: RedArmy
Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
Colorado does get some good rain in the spring, but this last month has been very heavy. The last couple of days are the first without rain I can remember since halfway through May. Some pretty heavy storms too. It hasn't been uncommon for the tornado sirens to be going off daily, good hail, strong winds, etc...

We had a very dry winter, and mother nature decided to make up for it in spades in May and June.

The last time I was in Colorado (middle school for SO nationals) the weather there was insane. We were coming back from Pikes Peak and the weather was nice and warm (around 70). Well, at one point on the way back the temperature dropped drastically and a blizzard came out of no where. Then, after that, a tornado watch/warning was issued. I've never witnessed anything like that in my life since.

Yeah, storms can just fly down the foothills and on to the front range sometimes. And it's a completely different climate from the front range (Denver, CO Springs, etc...) to the mountains (Estes). Sometimes, by late September/early October, you can drive through 3 seasons: summer in Denver, Fall in the foothills, and Winter at the passes.
 

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We had a thunderstorm 2 evenings ago that generated over 6,000 lightning strikes in the area. It was impressive.
 

JohnCU

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only had one good one so far this year, had nickel sized hail though. pretty neat. wish we'd have more. i :heart: storms
 

Iron Woode

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Originally posted by: Scouzer
Originally posted by: freshgeardude
Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Originally posted by: Scouzer
Love it. Continuous lightning and thunder, the rain is pouring but no damaging hail. What a perfect storm!
pfft, we've already gone through maybe 20 thunderstorms so far this year.

In fact it's raining outside right now.

well 2 weeks ago, it was a constant rain/ thunder for every day for 4 weeks (ie 6 weeks ago it started, ended 2 weeks ago)

god i wish :( we get maybe 4-5 storms a year
London, Ontario has the most thunderstorms of any city in Canada: averaging 36 per year.
 
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