Tonight we experienced something with the weather that Leah and I both have not seen before. We were watching TV, and I kept seeing flashes of light outside. At first I thought it was an ambulance or police car or something. It turned out to be lightning! And when we went upstairs to get a better look, we saw it was snowing pretty hard outside. Thunder and lightning AND snow??!?! Weird. Maybe in the mountains this might be more common, but here in Denver, I don't think I've seen that before.

And speaking of weather, I wanted to write about a question that I recently got answered, and that's been on my mind ever since I moved out here, back in 1987. One of my favorite parts of the local TV weather forecast is the chart that lists the record high and low temperatures for today's date. It's interesting to see just how wide a range of temperatures we have in Colorado.

It got me to thinking...on what single date was there the largest difference between the record high and record low temps? I've always thought it would probably be February or March, since it can be really cold some years and really warm other years. I decided to write an email to Mike Nelson, the weatherman for KMGH channel 7 (used to be on  KUSA channel 9). This was back in the summer. About 3 weeks later, I received a reply, but not an answer. Mike did put me in touch with someone at the National Climate Control Center in Boulder.

Finally, after almost 3 months of inquiry and waiting for replies from various sources, I got my answer.