I'm new here -- in northern New Mexico as well as in this forum. And I am not a weather geek, although in my maritime-related career I paid a lot of attention to (1) fog, and (2) storms. (There was a LOT of fog, but not many storms, in the San Francisco Bay area, where I worked.) I am a retiree, and a refugee from what I call the namby-pamby, sissy weather of coastal California. Spent most of my life there, where it's always nice and mild, and I always wanted to live somewhere where the weather has character -- some muscle, some teeth. So -- at least for now, we're in the southern Rockies, and I love it. I've seen more lightning in the last 10 months than I had seen all my life before. I love it. (Have I mentioned that I don't like weather that is so *nice* and *pretty* all the time? Yuck.) Today we seem to have turned a corner. My experience here is very short, so I am not a good judge of this. Still, every thunder storm up to now has brought a blast of cold air -- you all know about that; but this is the first one to bring a real chill which has stuck around for the rest of the day and into the evening. I like it. It's real weather.