Storms, Suns and Rainbows

Rear of Cow Palace Inn Appears to be a Shallow Sea

Southeastern Colorado has a lot of different weather delivered over a short length of time.  That’s belaboring the obvious.  In a territory where you can have snow mixed with lightning and thunder, the only way we’d be surprised was if it started raining toads and lizards. 

Easterly View from Cow Palace Inn Near Bridge

Wednesday’s storm was another evening of welcome rain, albeit, sent to us at between 35 and 45 miles per hour.  The rain helped a bit at the Holly Old Gym Fire, but by the same token, the winds whipped up the flames, prompting a second call for assistance by the Holly Fire Department. 

Second View West from Rear of Cow Palace Inn

Last night’s storm, as it was winding down from the west, opened the clouds just before sunset to provide a blazing, golden sun to the west, a rainstorm directly overhead, and a perfect 180 degree rainbow over the eastern portion of the skies.  Although some of the downtown streets were slightly flooded, it appeared that this time, the accumulated curbside waters didn’t do any damage to bordering businesses. 

The National Weather Service website shows Lamar has received from between 0.5 to 0.81 inches of rain since the start of July.  Holly is between one inch to 1.3 inches, Springfield checks in with 0.63 and Campo has 0.79 while to the west, La Junta comes in short for the month with 0.26, Wiley has 0.99 and Las Animas received 1.19 inches.

By Russ Baldwin