"Don't Like the Weather?... Wait 15 Minutes." Is a common phrase we use here in Denver when introducing newcomers to the area.
This past Sunday (sorry for the delay, busy work week) we had one of our usual spring snows here in Denver. Most people who have never lived in the "Mile High City" think we are buried in snow all winter long. Actually that is rarely the case. Denver maybe gets 3-7 snow storms per winter, with average accumulation in the 3-6 inch range. But what lands on the ground is usually gone within a day or three, remember we have over 300 days of sunshine per year and we're a mile closer to the sun. So snow stands little chance of surviving long here.
What we do experience are extreme shifts in weather. 
Saturday temps were in the upper 60's here, a nice spring day. Sunday we got dumped on and didn't get out of the 30's, By Tuesday we were back in the 60's and yesterday we were in the 70's, next Monday the forecast is for Snow again. Which has little chance of actually materializing because our weather forecasters here cannot predict the weather any further out than 14 hours! 5 days is a true crap shoot! 
I want a job where I can be wrong 85% of the time and get paid a good salary for being so. Here are the before and after shots of my yard between 7:30pm Saturday and 2:00pm Sunday (19 hours). It actually accumulated another 4-5 inches by the time the storm was over.
A little note about the pic on the left here, that snow covered power line you see sagging its way through the middle of the picture is actually a phone line no bigger around than your pinky, but has caked with heavy wet snow, and has subsequently deflected the line some 8 feet!
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