Chinook Posted August 4, 2013 Author Share Posted August 4, 2013 today we have 2000-4000 J/kg of MUCAPE near our Colorado cities, with about 20-30 knots of shear. Once again the 300mb wind of 40 knots seems to be quite a bit higher than the 500mb winds, and that's contributing to some 30 knot values for 0-6km. I think we could get some scattered strong thunderstorms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 So, for tomorrow's predicted rain event in metro Denver the models were saying 1-2 inches of rain late yesterday, now 0.5-0.6". I feel like I'm tracking another disappearing winter storm. Maybe we'll get 0.2". I spent way too much $ on water last month with about 0.6" natural total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 7, 2013 Author Share Posted August 7, 2013 FWIW the GFS seems to have a lot of ran in the general Denver and Colorado Springs area, although there is a pretty big gradient. With convection, you may get just about any amount. They are posting flash flood watches south of Denver. two pics from Saturday pileus clouds sunny with a chance of rain! It is sunny and raining heavily, when the storm was moving away from Fort Collins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Gorgeous pics. I don't think I've seen pileus clouds since I moved West, and now they are common. We wound up with a whopping 0.01" from the whole shebang today, even this morning they were still saying 0.3". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 So, this is interesting. 90 minutes ago there was nothing at all nearby on radar then a storm popped up right over us, we got small hail (0.5") before we even had any rain, and now we have a little flooding. Probably an inch so far and it looks like we are getting into some training. Most rain at one time in probably a year! Our house just got painted today. I think it dried before the rain started though. O joy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 9, 2013 Author Share Posted August 9, 2013 I have seen pileus clouds several times in the east. That was a particularly obvious pileus. I think yesterday was somewhat of a bust precipitation-wise. Eastern Colorado only got up to 0.5". I saw no rain yesterday. Radar shows heavy rain rates now near Denver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Nice rain the past 3 nights and this morning the top thousand feet of Mt Evans was white! Early, but I'm sure it'll disappear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vandy Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 Nice rain the past 3 nights and this morning the top thousand feet of Mt Evans was white! Early, but I'm sure it'll disappear. I hiked Evans and Bierstadt on Sunday, and there was just enough snow (1/2") to make things spicy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 So, for tomorrow's predicted rain event in metro Denver the models were saying 1-2 inches of rain late yesterday, now 0.5-0.6". I feel like I'm tracking another disappearing winter storm. Maybe we'll get 0.2". I spent way too much $ on water last month with about 0.6" natural total. Wow, that's crazy I had about 2.4" last month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Yeah I know- we were in a bit of a rain hole. Evening out now though- we've probably had about an inch the past 4 days, after over an inch in 2 hours on Thursday. BTW, the snow on Bierstadt (I think that is Bierstadt in your pic) looks old. Last year's maybe? Time to put the Microspikes in the pack and leave them there till winter sets in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vandy Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Yeah, that's the east ridge on Bierstadt. And no, that snow was fresh. It fell Saturday evening. I wouldn't expect any serious snowpack development until September... especially with the pattern looking drier by the end of this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 15, 2013 Author Share Posted August 15, 2013 Fort Collins just got a few raindrops and very short showers every day for a few days in a row. We have had 0.01"+ a few traces. NOAA analysis shows a lot of Colorado areas got over 0.50" in the last 7 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 18, 2013 Author Share Posted August 18, 2013 It was our first day above 90 since Aug. 2. (8/3 to 8/16 with no 90s) FNL airport went from 8/4 to 8/15 without a 90 temperature. It looked hazy, and I didn't see the high mountains yesterday or today, due to haze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 I miss the cooler weather! Two record highs in a row at DEN. Will today be a third? Record is 97. Seems like anytime the pattern is conducive to warmer than normal we threaten records. Then again, interesting that the difference between normal highs and record highs is only about 10 degrees- small range. Haze is weird too- hope it won't be too smoggy with the workweek starting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 20, 2013 Author Share Posted August 20, 2013 Saturday Aug 17: Fort Collins-CSU: 91.8F. Fort Collins-Loveland: 34C (93F) Sunday Aug 18: Fort Collins-CSU was 90.0F, but then we had sprinkles with some 30mph wind gusts, then it stayed in the 80's with some cloudy/partly cloudy skies. Fort Collins-Loveland: 34C (93F) Today, it was 93.5F, with dew point 45.5 at that time. (Dew points were in the 30's by the foothills.) It was bright and sunny, without the haze that existed on Fri-Sat. Fort Collins-Loveland: 35C (95F) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 12:30PM Fort Collins was 96.6 with a dew point of 38.8. Normal high is 84 FNL Airport: 37C (98.6F) at 2035Z GXY airport: 38C (100.4F) at 2055z Denver: 99 degrees (record), normal high is 87 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 1 degree hotter at DEN today and this year would be the year with the earliest 100 and latest 100 mark on record. Actually, when I look closer, it is the latest 99 on record. This summer seems to have had hot dry bookends. Bring on cooler weather! Kids are back in school... no time for the pool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 And a record low minimum (70!!) making for two records in one day and a DFN of +13... hot! The AC and power meters were really humming. Time to look again at solar panels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 Record high of 97 at Fort Collins yesterday. Today, we are still in the 80's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 1 degree hotter at DEN today and this year would be the year with the earliest 100 and latest 100 mark on record. Actually, when I look closer, it is the latest 99 on record. This summer seems to have had hot dry bookends. Bring on cooler weather! Kids are back in school... no time for the pool. Yes, the 99 yesterday at DEN was the warmest temperature this late in the year on record for the airport (98 has been touched as late as Aug 31). As usual, this record has to come with an asterisk due to the location change of the airport. Aurora, the closest official station to where the old airport was, only hit 95 yesterday. Today has been cooler with highs in the low 90s, and a nice little storm moving in off the foothills now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Record high of 97 at Fort Collins yesterday. Today, we are still in the 80's Hmm, I'm showing the official high to be 99 at FNL according to the NWS. The 97 must have been a different location? Looking at the WRCC records for Fort Collins, they a have COOP station with records back to 1893, and it shows the record high for yesterday was 98 from 1961: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?co3005 It looks like that station has still been keeping records through early 2013, so maybe that's the station that had 97 yesterday...and it also appears FNL's records only go back to 1986, and of course they are in a different location than the COOP station. So it does appear that FNL's 99 is the hottest temperature this late on record for Fort Collins, although it occurred at a station that has only been recording for less than 25 years (Fort Collins-Loveland Airport). In addition, I see there is a COOP station in Loveland that apparently is still active and has recorded a high of 99 as late as 9/1: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?co5236 So confusing...but yeah, hot start and hot end to this summer, with a nice seasonable to at times cool period in between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 To add to the discussion, Broomfield airport, which happens to be the closest major station to me, had a high of 96 yesterday. However, they have had a high as warm as 101 on Aug 30. So not even close to the hottest temperature so late for them. Aurora, which as I mentioned previously hit 95 yesterday, has been that warm as late as September 6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Hmm, I'm showing the official high to be 99 at FNL according to the NWS. The 97 must have been a different location? Looking at the WRCC records for Fort Collins, they a have COOP station with records back to 1893, and it shows the record high for yesterday was 98 from 1961: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?co3005 It looks like that station has still been keeping records through early 2013, so maybe that's the station that had 97 yesterday...and it also appears FNL's records only go back to 1986, and of course they are in a different location than the COOP station. So it does appear that FNL's 99 is the hottest temperature this late on record for Fort Collins, although it occurred at a station that has only been recording for less than 25 years (Fort Collins-Loveland Airport). In addition, I see there is a COOP station in Loveland that apparently is still active and has recorded a high of 99 as late as 9/1: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?co5236 So confusing...but yeah, hot start and hot end to this summer, with a nice seasonable to at times cool period in between. I think he means CSU when he says Fort Collins, which is where I suspect the COOP is (which is purely a guess without looking up anything) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 22, 2013 Author Share Posted August 22, 2013 Hmm, I'm showing the official high to be 99 at FNL according to the NWS. The 97 must have been a different location? Looking at the WRCC records for Fort Collins, they a have COOP station with records back to 1893, and it shows the record high for yesterday was 98 from 1961: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?co3005 It looks like that station has still been keeping records through early 2013, so maybe that's the station that had 97 yesterday...and it also appears FNL's records only go back to 1986, and of course they are in a different location than the COOP station. So it does appear that FNL's 99 is the hottest temperature this late on record for Fort Collins, although it occurred at a station that has only been recording for less than 25 years (Fort Collins-Loveland Airport). In addition, I see there is a COOP station in Loveland that apparently is still active and has recorded a high of 99 as late as 9/1: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?co5236 So confusing...but yeah, hot start and hot end to this summer, with a nice seasonable to at times cool period in between. Yes, the Fort Collins COOP station with records to 1893 is at CSU. They said, on the phone message, that 97 was a record for yesterday. I am not aware of any record-list for FNL airport, so I don't quote records for FNL. FNL can run hot sometimes because it's away from the trees. On the METARs, it rounds to the nearest degree celsius. (and reports whole numbers of degrees celsius.) I find that weird, considering many small airports have the ASOS system that has the METARs in whole numbers of degrees fahrenheit on the remarks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Yes, the Fort Collins COOP station with records to 1893 is at CSU. They said, on the phone message, that 97 was a record for yesterday. I am not aware of any record-list for FNL airport, so I don't quote records for FNL. FNL can run hot sometimes because it's away from the trees. On the METARs, it rounds to the nearest degree celsius. (and reports whole numbers of degrees celsius.) I find that weird, considering many small airports have the ASOS system that has the METARs in whole numbers of degrees fahrenheit on the remarks. I don't know what went into the decisions as far as where to put ASOS versus AWOS. I'm sure funding had something to do with it, but other than that... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 22, 2013 Author Share Posted August 22, 2013 One last GRLevel2 image post (before my trial period ends) southeast Denver area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoman25 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Two pretty strong cells about to converge on Denver, one from the west and the other from the south. Don't remember ever seeing that before, should be interesting to see what happens and how they interact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 And I'm about to drive home into it... should be interesting. Missed the first cell by that much, maybe we'll catch the second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 22, 2013 Author Share Posted August 22, 2013 The storm near Ken Caryl (southwest) just intensified Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 23, 2013 Author Share Posted August 23, 2013 Flash flood warnings for Kan Caryl, Palmer Divide area, Colorado Springs. Perhaps another FFW for the airport will be coming up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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