12-18-2008, 12:45 PM
Between Larkspur and Palmer Lake in Colorado, near the infamous Monument Pass, part of the Palmer Lake - Divide weather system. Divide, incidentally, is so named because it sits astride the Continental divide, and the weather system has to be experienced to be believed. Huge hailstones in July and August are not unusual, and a Chinook wind is an experience all it's own. Over 50 14,000 foot mountains in this state makes weather forecaster more like fortune telling than science. The local joke is that if you don't like our weather, wait five minutes - it will change. The local weatherman just says "Weather? Yes! And now back to sports..."