[davesque]

Lifelong Boulderite here. No snow on the ground is very typical during winter. If it does snow, it often doesn't stick around for very long since Colorado gets a lot of sunshine. However, it has still been unusually dry. Fires have been getting worse and worse every year, but always during the summer and fall months. I've never seen anything like this during winter in my whole life.

[rconti]

Thanks- my wife went to Fort Collins and talked about it always being sunny and nice between snows, but I didn't realize the ground cleared completely; I figured it would be too cold for that (another frequent component to her stories :) )