First hand experience now is discounted. So, Skooter, you are scientist in the perfect position to question..."anecdotal" evidence. What science degree do you hold on weather? Other than mock , prove I am wrong. You must have a degree in sarcasm, that is so much better than being anecdotal, aint it?
Proving you are wrong is not that difficult. All one need do is look at the history of your area.
Here, from the Denver Post.
Hailstorms aren't more common in Colorado than before, but they are getting costlier as the state grows
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Despite the rash of storms that have hit the Front Range this summer, Colorado is not being pummeled by more hail than usual. And the size of hailstones that have fallen in the region is not unprecedented,
according to weather experts.
In a state where the population has shot up by 1.3 million people since 2000, the hail is just dinging more cars, battering more rooftops and otherwise wreaking havoc that is taking a bigger and bigger bite out of more bank accounts. Like the hail, that trend isn’t likely to let up anytime soon.
“We’ve always been hail alley, but over the past three to five years we’ve really seen this volatile pattern of large hail hitting densely populated areas,” said Carole Walker, executive director of the
Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association . “We have a booming population, more homes, larger homes, more cars out on the roadway. It’s unfortunately affecting insurance rates. What we pay out in claims is what people pay in premiums.”
So no....regardless of what your flawed memory tells you, you are not seeing more, or larger hail today than is normal for your state.
Do I also need to provide you with a long term (thousands of years) drought history of your region as well to show you that the drought you believe you are living through is neither unusual, nor unprecedented, and in fact, little more than a minor inconvenience in comparison to some of the droughts that have struck your region which lasted hundreds of years?
If you want facts, especially about something as ever changing as the weather, you probably shouldn't look to your own faulty memory.