Ouray doesn’t often see snow followed by heavy smoke in June, but in this crazy year of coronavirus and more climate weirdness, that is exactly what we got – 2.2 inches of very wet, heavy snow on the morning of June 9, which was also the last frost date this year – so far. This latest below freezing weather settled in u days after the average last frost date, May 29.

For gardeners, the good news was that it did snow, since otherwise the morning’s frosty low of 31 degrees w...