I had been invited to participate in the 2023 Crested Butte Plein Air Invitational. In anticipation, I traveled from California to Colorado and spent the whole month of June plein-air painting in Crested Butte and Mt. Crested Butte. At this high altitude, I experienced Spring's timid arrival accompanied by snow and hail. After my trip, the quarter-sheet plein-air watercolors were framed and sent to the Invitational's August exhibition. Months later, in the studio I scaled up a few of my favorite compositions into full-sheet watercolors. Cloudy with a Chance of Sun depicts my experience during that first week of June.