Colorado days, not usually much excitement in the weather. This time of year the only question is if we’ll have thunderstorms later (very very few, if any) and how hot it’ll get. (Low to mid 90s.)
At the moment, 8AM, it’s right about exactly perfect. Clear, blue, about 69 degrees. Norman Maclean said , counter to his English teacher, conditions can reach a level of “more perfect”, and that’s where this moment is.
I sit out here, my porch, most mornings while I look at the NOAA site for the day’s weather. It’s a nice place to watch it warm into day. There’s an ancient, beautiful spruce tree on the east side of the porch, it keeps us shaded until ten. We’ve six or eight bird feeders arrayed under the tree, a couple hummingbird feeders, a bird bath. Flowers, vines, our neighbors show a green thumb and our end of the ‘hood is a garden. Wildlife circulates through our spruce in waves, early a couple hummingbirds, followed by finches and doves. The occasional jay. At the moment it’s squirrels, I’ve identified 4 who frequent our tree but there are likely more. A couple generations in these four. I put peanuts out for them and now they leave our bird feeders alone. A couple have become used to me, they’ll take a peanut from a gloved hand. They stay off the porch, running along the rails and sitting on the pillars, at the moment two young ones are chasing each other around the tree, jumping branch to branch. There’s a light breeze rustling leaves and flowers and branches, just on the edge of cool at this more perfect time of day.
Today and tomorrow will be much like yesterday, less thunderstorms today. (Yes, there were a few small ones on the south end, around The Matrix, yesterday. (A friend named Highlands Ranch area Matrix, he said you have to find a phone booth to get out. Anybody remember the movie “Stepford Wives”?)
Tomorrow, Thursday we’ll see a few more thunderstorms, maybe getting to scattered, in the afternoon. Friday morning a surface cold front will push through Denver about 6am, bringing enough moisture we’ll see some thunder bumpers in the afternoon. Enough instability and moisture one or two severe might develop.