Sheridan Lake

Life in eastern Kiowa County, Colorado, as recorded by Sharon Scott.

Life in eastern Kiowa County, Colorado, as recorded by Sharon Scott.

Life in eastern Kiowa County, Colorado, as reported by Sharon Scott.

Life in eastern Kiowa County, Colorado, as recorded by Sharon Scott.

Life in eastern Kiowa County, Colorado, as reported by Sharon Scott

I hope everyone had a great Christmas holiday and are now looking forward to a fantastic New Year in 2020. We don't do much for celebrating on New Year's Eve, but we did stay up and welcomed in the new year.

This Sunday marked a noteworthy date in Kiowa County weather history. December 29, 2006, 28 inches of snow fell at Sheridan Lake in a 24-hour period. That is the record one-day snowfall for the county. This is also the record for a two-day snowfall.

The most snow to ever fall in Kiowa County in a three-day time span was 32 inches at Haswell November 5, 1946.

No snow in the forecast for next week as we go into a warming trend with drier weather.

New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are looking fair to partly cloudy, with highs in the 40s and lows in the teens.

We have no significant precipitation in our 5-day forecast for Kiowa County. The nights are going to be cold, with lows in the upper teens for most areas in the coming week.

The coldest afternoon is expected to be Monday with only 40 degrees, then climbing to 50 for Wednesday through Friday.

Looking at the extended forecast from December 14-20, I don't see any major precipitation for us, but it does look colder starting December 16, with highs only in the 30s.

Precipitation for the month of November finished with 0.16 at Eads, and Sheridan Lake reporting 0.38

With the holidays quickly approaching, our thoughts and prayers go out to the less fortunate families in Kiowa County.

Can you believe December is here already and Christmas will be here before we know it? I can blame the fast passing of time on old age - what's your excuse?

My brother Doug would have been 71 years old today, December 1. Doesn't seem possible he's been gone for 33 years this coming January 2020.

We enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner and visiting at the home of my sister, Jerene, and her husband, Ian DeBono. Other guests were Chad DeBono of Lamar and Jason, Gina, Dexter and Jett Dechant of Kit Carson.