I have lived in Boulder since 1969. I came here to pursue a doctorate in geography. As a teaching assistant, I taught the fundamentals of weather and climate. I had also been a weather observer and air traffic controller in the Air Force.

Nothing, however, prepared me for that first year’s weather in Boulder.

There were 8.66 inches of rain and widespread flooding in May, a trace of snow and 123 mph winds in June, temperatures over 100 degrees in August, 49.3 inches of snow and bitter cold in October, 122 mph winds in January and 56.7 inches of snow in March, followed by a dry and hot May.

It flustered me that there was no way of knowing if any of these weather events were ordinary or record-setting.

So I set out to compile a complete weather history of Boulder dating all the way back to 1893. I scoured each day’s weather observations and each monthly and yearly summary so that I had each day’s high and low temperature, snowfall and precipitation records.

I took the results to the Daily Camera in 1985 and immediately became the Camera’s weather historian. I had a monthly column that outlined each month’s weather happenings and its place in Boulder’s weather history. You’ve seen my column in the Get Out! section over the past 15 years.

Recently, I was hospitalized from the first week of November to the last week of February. Consequently, I was unable to write my October through February columns. As it turned out, the Camera did an excellent job of summarizing each month’s weather, and what records were broken; witness Charlie Brennan’s column about February in the March 2 Camera.

I’m home now, but given my medical conditions, and the Camera’s reporting, I’ve decided to no longer write my column.

For those of you who miss the large graphic chart that accompanied my column, you can now construct your own chart by going to noaa.gov. If you scroll across the top of that website you will find each month’s data.

Just click on “temperature” and you will be presented with seven possibilities. If you click on “Daily Weather Observation” you can get each month’s summary. If you click on “Daily Records” you can see that the first two days of February were record-setters in terms of snow. You can also see that the 18th had a record high of 73 degrees.

I want to thank the Camera and all my dedicated readers.