Corner of Bourbon & Division

Hello! I lived in Colorado most of my life... in the trendy spots (I'm familiar with the Denver/Boulder/Longmont/Greeley areas). For day-to-day activities at lower elevations, winters don't usually require much more than a heavy fleece jacket (the pretty kind that flatters your figure and whatnot). Hat and gloves - well, I hardly ever needed them during the daytime. It does dump snow on occasion at lower elevations (perhaps a couple of times a month?), but I don't remember it sticking to the streets for more than half a day. No one who lives in the plains of Colorado ever sees snow on the roads long enough to learn to drive on it, so don't go out on the roads after a heavy snow... almost everyone will be driving like a complete idiot. I've only ever seen two or three white Christmases on the Eastern Plains of Colorado. The piles of snow made by plows in the parking lots and on the sides of the street last for a few months, which seems to indicate that average wintertime temperature stays a bit below freezing, but the sun is out almost all the time in Colorado, so you don't really feel the cold. At the lower elevations, it hardly ever gets into the negative digits, even at night. In the mountains the sun feels hotter during the day than it does at lower elevations, too, although the temps are lower, naturally. The air is really thin in the mountains, I guess that's the excuse. I've had friends that've lived in the wild parts of the mountains, and they say it can just dump snow up there and be terribly cold and inaccessible. I tried to just stay out of the mountains in the winter, except maybe tame places like Estes Park, Vail, Aspen, Copper Mountain or Steamboat Springs. Layers of clothing are the way to go in a Colorado winter. The days always FEEL warm when the sun is shining, no matter how cold it is. It kind of stinks. I remember doing a lot of coat-shedding/coat-donning.

Now, Pueblo is probably completely different. I'm not familiar with the South.

Here in ND it's always just plain cold in the winter. We just wear the thickest clothing we own for 5 months and I think it's much easier. :)