Is it dry there, too? Raining here all week.

but we had pretty bad storms earlier in the week. And not only that, there is a major forest fire growing as we speak. Went from 50 to 3,000 in only one day.

in Denver since I moved here in February.

have spent all but ten years of my life on the front range.

This heat is NOT normal. And I'm not looking forward to July and August. . .


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ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/CO/Snow/snow/watershed/daily/co_update_snow.pdf

reach 100F the entire time I went to college there (1974-1982).

I grew up in this valley and that's just weird. The seasons used to be gentle and have an arc. Now, it's more like a roller coaster.

to realize climate change is real and something needs to be done.

I have a Republican friend who can't say the words climate change with out stressing it out to Cliiiimaaatttte Chaaannnngggggee. You know how someone sarcastically will overly stress a word. He also seems to be compelled to state that it use to be called Glllloooooooobaallllll Waaaaaarmmmmmminggggggg. I usually attempt to explain global warming is climate change, just a more accurate way of describing it.

I haven't seen the sun in about a month.

That it gets 99 to 100 in late summer? Or just in recent years?

And it's that hot there already? Yikes! It hasn't gotten that here yet (dallas), and it gets really hot here.

in the early 70s.

high altitude, cool clear weather. But I've never been there.

Here in Dallas, it reminds me of the old West type of landscape, except there are a lot of buildings and concrete everywhere. When you walk on the ground in the summer, it crunches from the dry clay soil and rock, like in western movies. I always found that to be an awful landscape. But the economy is great, and we worship at the altar of the a/c compressor.

I.e., the mountains. John Denver lived in the mountains, not in Denver.

Denver is really the high plains, just an extremely high, dry part of the high plains. The early nickname for the city was "Queen City of the Plains". That was before mountain-oriented tourism became economically important here.

And yes, there are going to be "heat snaps", but the fact is we're having more extreme weather, including more "heat snaps".
Welcome to global climate change.

Things are not normal in CO anymore.

Its much more gradual thn that.

We had a serious drought last year, and didn't get enough rain to recover from it over the fall, winter and spring. Now we haven't had rain for a month and lots of things are struggling and dying. While we haven't hit 100 yet, give it time. We were hitting the nineties back in March.

I enjoyed the cooler evenings around here while it lasted.

And super-muggy!

The normal high at this time of year is in the high 70s F.