After a month of frigid air, cloudy skies and various forms of precipitation across most of the country, brilliant sunshine and dry, crystal-clear air bathes the Colorado Front Range today. We expect an afternoon high near 60 degrees F; even better, the mild conditions are expected to last through the week.
Of course, such warm winter respites are common here, often developing a day or two after heavy snowstorms. Indeed, an alternating pattern of snow and mild, sunny weather often persists into early May along the Front Range urban corridor.
We all welcome sunshine in winter but tend to tire of it quickly during the heat of summer. Though the sun has fueled the evolution of almost all life on Earth (humans included), its intensity is often falsely blamed for global warming. In fact, global sunshine has not changed; rather, it is our pollution of the atmosphere, leading to heat retention, that is responsible for climate change.
