tacoman25 Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 I'm hoping for once that the rain misses my area this evening, or at least holds off until after 9...I have a softball double header tonight (making up for a rainout last month). Looks like a pretty impressive storm out east on I-70, and another one hitting Cheyenne right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIC Airport Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Its gotten extremely windy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 Last night at about 8:00, we had several minutes of rain and thunder, and some pea size hail. There were three reports of 1" hail in Fort Collins. Those areas must have been localized at some other part of town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 Perhaps some upcoming thunderstorms/heavy rainfall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 There are some heavy thunderstorms right now just south of Denver. Looks like it should be an active afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 Here is the reflectivity/VIL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Denver metro and areas further south and east until 9 pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIC Airport Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Denver metro and areas further south and east until 9 pm. Had a couple thunderstorms that went around me today as I watched on my deck. Other than that, nothing worth talking about regarding this watch, at least here. Seems like the same areas that got the storms the last couple days were getting them today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Had a couple thunderstorms that went around me today as I watched on my deck. Other than that, nothing worth talking about regarding this watch, at least here. Seems like the same areas that got the storms the last couple days were getting them today. Yeah, the storms seemed to go right around me yesterday as well. Hopefully we'll get something more substantial over the next few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 NAM shows a ton of rain over eastern CO over the next 24 hours. Hopefully this is for real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 Looks like the RUC thinks there will be heavy rain. There are a few smaller storms starting to fire up. Temp: 66. Dew point: 56 Precipitable water: 0.8" (SPC mesoanalysis) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 This is right outside my window Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomad Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Had a bit of pea-size hail in Englewood, but nothing major. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsman Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Winters Last Stand? From the NWS Winter Weather Advisory posted last night: ACCUMULATION/WIND...TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS WILL GENERALLY RANGE FROM 2 TO 6 INCHES...MAINLY ABOVE 10 THOUSAND FEET...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS TO 8 INCHES.* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Wow, DEN has picked up over 1.2" from the storm after the round of heavy rain this morning. Not bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIC Airport Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 It was nice to see the beneficial rains yesterday. And it's beautiful out today..... in fact, I see fresh new snow off to the south on top of Pikes Peak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomad Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Judging by the lack of comments I take it no one saw the fire northwest of Boulder today? It wasn't big, but it didn't look like a controlled burn. Plus there was a firetruck headed in that direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsman Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Judging by the lack of comments I take it no one saw the fire northwest of Boulder today? It wasn't big, but it didn't look like a controlled burn. Plus there was a firetruck headed in that direction. Read about the fire from the Daily Camera. As of last night, about 100 acres were burning, evacuations within a 1.5 mile radius from mile marker 3.7 on LHC. This week, temps are forecasted to be in the 90's up and down the Front Range and DRY. Thuderstorms will probably be cause for more harm than good - lightning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 27, 2011 Author Share Posted June 27, 2011 GFS MOS extended for my backyard. Holy moly! KFNL GFSX MOS GUIDANCE 6/27/2011 1200 UTC FHR 24 36| 48 60| 72 84| 96 108|120 132|144 156|168 180|192 TUE 28| WED 29| THU 30| FRI 01| SAT 02| SUN 03| MON 04|TUE CLIMO N/X 52 95| 59 103| 61 97| 54 91| 55 90| 59 98| 60 94| 57 55 86 TMP 54 93| 62 94| 64 90| 57 85| 57 85| 61 93| 62 87| 59 DPT 41 37| 42 40| 43 39| 38 39| 46 47| 47 42| 48 45| 47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 GFS MOS extended for my backyard. Holy moly! KFNL GFSX MOS GUIDANCE 6/27/2011 1200 UTC FHR 24 36| 48 60| 72 84| 96 108|120 132|144 156|168 180|192 TUE 28| WED 29| THU 30| FRI 01| SAT 02| SUN 03| MON 04|TUE CLIMO N/X 52 95| 59 103| 61 97| 54 91| 55 90| 59 98| 60 94| 57 55 86 TMP 54 93| 62 94| 64 90| 57 85| 57 85| 61 93| 62 87| 59 DPT 41 37| 42 40| 43 39| 38 39| 46 47| 47 42| 48 45| 47 Dang. And the house we just moved into has a spanking new (3 year old) A/C unit that is... WOEFULLY underpowered. The attic fan and open windows have been our relief... till tomorrow, I guess. Should have listened to the home inspector... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Dang. And the house we just moved into has a spanking new (3 year old) A/C unit that is... WOEFULLY underpowered. The attic fan and open windows have been our relief... till tomorrow, I guess. Should have listened to the home inspector... It will be interesting to see if we actually get as warm as predicted. DEN is usually one of the warmest locations in the metro area, and the hottest they have been so far this month is 92 on Sunday. On that day, the temp was 86 at 11 am. Today, they were just 80 at 11. I'm guessing 92-93 today and 95-96 tomorrow, a couple degrees below the NWS forecast. 9news is going with 99 both tomorrow and Thursday, which I think is definitely too high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 It will be interesting to see if we actually get as warm as predicted. DEN is usually one of the warmest locations in the metro area, and the hottest they have been so far this month is 92 on Sunday. On that day, the temp was 86 at 11 am. Today, they were just 80 at 11. I'm guessing 92-93 today and 95-96 tomorrow, a couple degrees below the NWS forecast. 9news is going with 99 both tomorrow and Thursday, which I think is definitely too high. That's pretty reasonable. On my post on June 19, I said that heavy rain will hit the area. Fort Collins only got 0.2" from that storm, and 0.2" to 0.4" of rain fell in eastern Larimer County. 0.81" fell at Estes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Well, DEN ending up getting to at least 96 today...94 in my backyard. They may have a shot at triple digits the next couple days after all...the record is 102 each day, those should be safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 29, 2011 Author Share Posted June 29, 2011 yesterday- CSU Campus: 94 CSU Foothills: 92.9 FNL Airport: 98.6 Greeley Airport: 98.6 Greeley (GXY) and Fort Collins-Loveland (FNL) always report temperatures in whole degrees celsius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Cloudcover looks like it might be limiting heating potential today. DEN has made it up to 95, but I doubt they get much warmer with the increasing convection moving off the foothills. Also appears to be quite a bit of lightning in the foothills, hopefully no big blazes start today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 KDEN seems to report blowing dust and a wind gust to 72 mph in the past hour. That is probably automated... any way to verify? It is fairly dark around here with radar showing some showers in the area... Edit: looks real- found my way to the aviation wx page and saw this METAR: KDEN 292153Z 19021G63KT 6SM DU SCT080 BKN130 BKN200 31/01 A3002 RMK AO2 PK WND 20063/2149 TSB32E47RAB16E25 PRESRR SLP071 P0000 T03060011 Musta been interesting out at DIA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 30, 2011 Author Share Posted June 30, 2011 We got a little rain at 2:00. We also got some more dark clouds and wind gusts of at least 30mph at 4:00 or 4:30, without rain. It got to 96 degrees before 2:00. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 30, 2011 Author Share Posted June 30, 2011 Wow. We are in the 30% area for wind on the SPC outlook for today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Wow. We are in the 30% area for wind on the SPC outlook for today. Yeah, wasn't expecting this at all. HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1115 AM MDT THU JUN 30 2011 ...STRONG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND URBAN CORRIDOR THIS AFTERNOON... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN THE MOUNTAINS AND SPREAD NORTHEAST ACROSS THE PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON. THE COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE ALONG WITH RELATIVELY DRY LOW LEVELS WILL ALLOW STORMS TO PRODUCE THE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. THERE IS ALSO POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL WITH AMOUNTS UP TO 1 INCH FROM THE STRONGER STORMS MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE FRONT RANGE MOUNTAINS. THERE WILL BE HIGH FIRE DANGER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE FRONT RANGE FOOTHILLS...PARK COUNTY...AND PALMER DIVIDE AREA WITH STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS...LOW HUMIDITIES AND LIGHTNING WITH THE STORMS. THE INCREASE IN STORMS TODAY IS DUE TO AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING FROM EASTERN UTAH INTO WESTERN COLORADO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 KDEN seems to report blowing dust and a wind gust to 72 mph in the past hour. That is probably automated... any way to verify? It is fairly dark around here with radar showing some showers in the area... Edit: looks real- found my way to the aviation wx page and saw this METAR: KDEN 292153Z 19021G63KT 6SM DU SCT080 BKN130 BKN200 31/01 A3002 RMK AO2 PK WND 20063/2149 TSB32E47RAB16E25 PRESRR SLP071 P0000 T03060011 Musta been interesting out at DIA! ...and unfortunately, this was associated with a single engine plane crash with a fatality yesterday afternoon near Watkins- in this morning's Post - as well as a brief closure at DIA. Hopefully this afternoon's storms will be spectacular, wet, and harmless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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