Latest "View from the Porch" 10-20-09

I grew up in Kansas City, in the heart of the Great Plains. Unless there was a front moving through, we had the same weather that people hundreds of miles in any direction were having. Not so Boulder or the rest of the front range! On any given day, (south to north) Colorado Springs, Denver, Idaho Springs, Boulder and Fort Collins may all be experiencing different weather (hot here/cold there; clear blue sky here/cloudy and snowing there.) My favorite thing, as an original flatlander, is to step out on my porch and see the line on the hillsides above which it is snowing and below which there is rain. This is exactly what is happening in this most recent "view from the porch." Snow up the hillside. Rain on my neighborhood.