Hail every day!!! I dont blame you for moving! I would have gotten the hail outta there too!
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What only half an hour a day? You might as well tell us it hails every day all day. Anyone with any understanding of Colorado weather knows this is a gross exaggeration. Colorado Springs at most averages 10 hailstorms a year. That in itself is a lot of hail. But far from every day for months on end. No one could live there or afford the insurance costs if it hailed large hail every day for 6 months straight.
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Fam, I’m not exaggerating on this one. Last year, we did have hail every day, for up to half an hour a day for over 3 months straight.
If you don’t believe me, check the Colorado Springs gardeners fb page along with Denver Front range.
@Toadham , was the hail last year unusual or what?
You can also go to this website called hail trace and put in the dates then click on Colorado at the bottom of each day to see.
In my old neighborhood of Lorson Ranch, its common to get a new roof every few years.
Also you can read about the insurance premium increases throughout the last few years due to the weather as well.
Also car insurance doubles/triples when you change your address to Colorado. At least it did for us. I’m Washington we pay about 100$ for car insurance, in Colorado, it jumped to 272$.
And this year alone before we sold the house, our home owners also shot up as well.
70 hail storms reported by the news by July.
Google a.i. also said
Trust me, i am not lying nor am i exaggerating this fact that in 2023, we had hail almost every dam day where I lived.
More historic news on the hail.
This year, 2024, the hail wasn’t as bad but last year… every day during the growing season.
https://hailspecialists.com/tag/colorado-springs/
This website also documented the hail.
In my 4 years in Colorado, I’ve had to replace my windshield twice, not to include it being broken as we speak from the hail right before we left 
i need to replace it again because it’s still cracked from this year’s hail. Replaced my roof once already and it had gotten replaced in 2017 before we even got there. Replaced the garage door as well because of the hail. Repainted the house too this year because of all the hail 
Anyways, you can Google how much it hailed last year and how it broke previous records in Colorado Springs. 2023 hail was no joke.
This hail was my average size but every time, we would still get a good ping pong sized at least scattered around.
And no, i didn’t record or take photos every time/ every day it happened. It was depressing enough to just have to pick up the aftermath every day.
Vs this year’s hail report:
111 for 2023 = over 3 months or as i had remembered, about 3.5 months in 2023.
And that’s why some of my old citrus trees are just sticks you can even see some of the hail piled up in one of the photos of my pots…
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2023 was a bad hail year in the central plains including I’m sure Colorado Springs. But there is absolutely no way it hailed every day from March until August at your place. Hail frequency is recorded as number of days at any one location per year. A location is a weather station not a city, county, or state. The highest frequency is the area where CO/WY/NE join so north of Colorado Springs. Their average is about 10-12 hail events per year in any one place. Colorado Springs average is 7-9 hail days in any one spot about the same as Amarillo where I spent 30 years.
Hail frequency at one spot is way different than hail reports in the area. In Amarillo in summer it was common to have hail in the area several times a week. No doubt there were hundreds of hail storms in the Texas panhandle some years. but we usually had 4-10 hailstorms at my house each year.
Having visited Limon Colorado, I’ve seen first hand how much hail they have. It is unreal.
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Yes, it can hail a lot in Limon as much of eastern CO. I’ve seen 6 foot deep hail drifts near Amarillo.
But that is dry country. 15-20 inches of ppt per year. If it hailed or rained every day it won’t be dry. Do you really think it hails every day for 6 months in Limon? Or anywhere ever in the USA?
Didn’t make that claim fruitnut. I stated what I saw in Limon in 2009 which was 3 consecutive days of hail and several more days in the 2 weeks following after I left.
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The NWS reported 78 days with a thunderstorm and 14 days with hail in Colorado Springs in 2023. There was over 25 inches of ppt near the record of 27. So, it was indeed a wet and stormy year. I won’t want a year like that. I’ve had many crops damaged by hail since moving to Texas more than 50 years ago.
14 days of hail is a lot. Way more than I want. You have my condolences.
I moved to CA in 2000 because of all the hail, wind, freezes, and nastiness in Amarillo. In 4 years there zero hail, seldom over 20 mph winds, and no damaging freezes.
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2023 was not a normal year in Colorado.
Having lived there… the national weather service is wrong on the amount of hail at received and it was in fact, way more than 14. You can see it all over the news if you just search hail in 2023 for Colorado.
For me in Colorado Springs, it was nearly every day for the entire growing season of 2023. And again, I’m not exaggerating this nor are the news stations and other first hand accounts for 2023.
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The news stations nor am i exaggerating it for the year of 2023 but yes, it did hail for about 3 months straight. Every day. In 2023.
The weather station is located in Pueblo and Pueblo has very different weather. But according to everyone who live there, 14 days is wrong for the year of 2023. If you look, it’s 14 days this year for 2024 for Colorado Springs and your data is actually from Pueblo, Colorado which is about an hour south of me at the time and has very different weather. It doesn’t rain as much in Pueblo vs actual Colorado Springs and Denver.
If you want to look at the data, you need to search Denver and Colorado Springs, not Pueblo. If you search up Pueblo weather, you’re going to get different results vs Colorado Springs or Denver. Whatever Denver gets, we get within 20 minutes depending on the wind speeds.
The weather usually moved southwest. It rarely moved north. And again Pueblo is a little different weather wise and does not reflect weather from Colorado Springs at all. They’re much more warmer there than Colorado Springs for some reason.
The link is Colorado Springs.
…THE COLORADO SPRINGS CO CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR OF 2023…
CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1991 TO 2020
CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1872 TO 2024
WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART
VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM
NORMAL
…
TEMPERATURE (F)
RECORD
HIGH 101 06/21/2016
06/26/2012
06/26/2012
LOW -27 02/01/1951
12/09/1919
HIGHEST 97 08/18
LOWEST -2 01/30
02/23
AVG. MAXIMUM 64.6 64.1 0.5
AVG. MINIMUM 37.7 36.8 0.9
MEAN 51.2 50.4 0.8
DAYS MAX >= 90 28
DAYS MAX <= 32 15
DAYS MIN <= 32 151
DAYS MIN <= 0 3
PRECIPITATION (INCHES)
RECORD
MAXIMUM 27.58 1999
MINIMUM 6.07 1939
TOTALS 25.47 15.91 9.56
DAILY AVG. 0.07 0.04 0.03
DAYS >= .01 92
DAYS >= .10 48
DAYS >= .50 12
DAYS >= 1.00 6
GREATEST
24 HR. TOTAL 5.49 06/11 TO 06/12
SNOWFALL (INCHES)
RECORDS
MAXIMUM 96.4 1957
MINIMUM 11.7 2012
TOTALS 42.5 32.5 10.0
SINCE 7/1 17.8 11.2 6.6
SNOWDEPTH AVG. 0
DAYS >= TRACE 70 27.1 42.9
DAYS >= 1.0 15 11.0 4.0
GREATEST
SNOW DEPTH 8 02/16
02/15
24 HR TOTAL 10.2 02/14 TO 02/15
DEGREE DAYS
HEATING TOTAL 5520 5888 -368
SINCE 7/1 1961 2390 -429
COOLING TOTAL 612 608 4
SINCE 1/1 612 608 4
FREEZE DATES
RECORD
EARLIEST 09/01/1911
LATEST 06/18/1912
EARLIEST 10/07
LATEST 04/24
…
WIND (MPH)
AVERAGE WIND SPEED 9.0
RESULTANT WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 1/040
HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 49/230 DATE 08/02
HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 69/190 DATE 06/08
SKY COVER
POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM
AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.47
NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 124
NUMBER OF DAYS PC 193
NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 48
AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 50
WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH
THUNDERSTORM 78 MIXED PRECIP 6
HEAVY RAIN 34 RAIN 42
LIGHT RAIN 108 FREEZING RAIN 0
LT FREEZING RAIN 6 HAIL 14
HEAVY SNOW 5 SNOW 15
LIGHT SNOW 58 SLEET 0
FOG 82 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 17
HAZE 19
- INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.
R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.
MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.
T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.
Annual Summary 2023 – Colorado Springs
Weather.gov > Pueblo, CO > Annual Summary 2023 – Colorado Springs
Pueblo is the headquarters for that district of NWS. Data is for Colorado Springs.
Their information is false. Again, i lived there in 2023 and these are from the Colorado Springs gardeners Facebook page
There’s a lot more and it won’t let me add it until someone replies but from the gardening page alone, you can clearly count over 14 days. And again, they’re reporting from Pueblo for Colorado Springs which is inaccurate, not the municipality of Colorado Springs. I don’t understand why you want to disregard all the other evidence I’ve given you and just stick with the one link of your choosing when there are multiple links and accounts that would state that 14 days of hail is false for Colorado Springs in the year of 2023. 14 days would not be historic at all nor worth even thinking about if you lived in the area. And we’re not even talking about just pea sized hail, but hail that would give people concussions. The government will never tell you the full truth and i would know, I’ve worked for them as well.
@Melon, can we please bring the conversation back to the topic of growing citrus outside the citrus belt?
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I personally think that this discussion about hail is a major distraction from this thread, and that if you two want to continue with this maybe start a new thread, or do it privately? It seems to me like there was way more hail than normal that year where @Melon is, and I think that is enough proven.
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