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Hey, anyone in CO use swamp coolers for house cooling? I hear mixed results, but do see them heavily offered at places like Lowes and Big R. Trying to see if they're worth it. I fully understand that AC is superior, but a whole house AC unit is financially out of my range right now, and the portable units we have fried an outlet last year from overuse.

Hey, anyone in CO use swamp coolers for house cooling? I hear mixed results, but do see them heavily offered at places like Lowes and Big R. Trying to see if they're worth it. I fully understand that AC is superior, but a whole house AC unit is financially out of my range right now, and the portable units we have fried an outlet last year from overuse.

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Do you really need air conditioning in Colorado? I'm not being sarcastic, I just have no idea what summer is like in Colorado.

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The portion I'm in, yeah. you have about 2-3 months of pretty damn hot. BUT, it's generally dry. Rest of the year is comfy to downright cold. Like today was almost 70, but tomorrow will be down in the 30s

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I visited some friends in Denver in late summer/early fall 2020, it was quite nice there, climate wise, but they did mention that it snowed a week after I left. That seems insane to me.

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Tell me about it. Wednesday we got 6 inches of snow. Schools, government, etc. all closed for the day. 75% of it was melted by noon that day. Next day it didn't even look like it had snowed