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Wednesday, June 09, 2004
 
Wacky Weather

On Monday Denver set a new high temperature record of 98 degrees.

Yesterday it hailed so hard just west of my house that a Hummer got stuck in the three feet of hail that fell in about 30 minutes. Here's the story with some still pictures of the stuck Humvee. I was laughing my ass off last night watching the live coverage of the guy in the Hummer. All of these rich a-holes driving around in their $50,000 Hummers, and the things can't even handle a little spring weather. Hummers suck. There were also over 2,000 lightning strikes in and around the city last night.

Still, despite last night's brief rain storm, Denver has only received 3.64 inches of precipitation THIS YEAR! Compare that to 13.37 inches in KC, 12.28 inches in Chi-town, or 20.37 inches in Cincy. But hey, you guys probably like watching those storm clouds blot out the sun for days on end. Me? I'll take the sunshine, thank you.

The Ohio State weather page has lots of good information on it. Mainly technical forecasting stuff, but obviously lots of other good current and historical weather data too.