What is the deal with this unusual weather?

For those of you who live in the wonderful state of Colorado, you might have noticed the classic bizarre weather that seems to come around during this late February to early March time period every year. One day, it might be 32 degrees and snowing like all heck broke loose; the next day, it’s sunny and 60 degrees and all the snow from the previous day is gone in the blink of an eye. My fellow classmates and I enjoy the spontaneous warm weather. Myself, as well as many others, love to go enjoy our wonderful state on warm days such as these, yet these warm bursts are a blessing and a curse.

With the ice cream eating, bike riding, pool swimming, dog walking, cloud gazing type of days, comes no hope of future snow days. It seems that no matter how hard it snows the day before, there is not a trace of every student’s favorite white powdery substance to be found anywhere. Benjamin Newton, an Air Academy junior, says, “I like the warm weather as much as the next guy, but Colorado has some amazing snowboarding, and I hate to see the season coming to an end.” Lauren Berg, an AAHS sophomore,  stated that “even though the days have been warmer, I personally am more into beach weather.”

To provide some factual evidence to my girthy claim, the overall high temperature from this past February was a whopping 71 degrees with a stifling low of 8 degrees. The month of February is attempting to cram all of our favorite seasons into one single month. The warm days, as nice as they are, can carry one of the most infamous fun crushers of them all: the wind. Colorado is notorious for its hurricane-like winds; whether you’re flying a kite, hiking a fourteener, cliff jumping, fly fishing, having a picnic, or rock climbing, Colorado’s wind, maxing out at a speed of 88 miles per hour, will destroy your kite, blow you off a mountain, make cliff jumping one freezing adventure, make it impossible to cast a fly, blow your weekend lunch all over the park, and make your rock climbing endeavors extremely cold and dangerous. The wind not only ruins days, but it can damage our houses and other possessions. Personally, tiles from my roof were ripped off and hurled all over creation. Douglas Duran, a teacher at Air Academy, witnessed a trampoline being blown from a neighbor’s backyard across Research Parkway into another family’s yard on the opposite side of the busy street. Elaina Martens was driving home from work at Shots Coffee and saw “several tipped over semi-trucks” and “almost died.”

So whether (pun intended) you enjoy Colorado’s devious forecast or enjoy the consistent snow that this state can bring, there will always be a day of the week to suit your needs in this bipolar state. Who would want to leave this beautiful, amazing, luscious, stunning, stellar, classy, windy, smokey, hippie, patriotic, wonderful, clean, happy, best state in the universe?