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BOU says the tornado went directly over the ASOS, 84kt peak gust before it went out. Lifted several minutes ago and warning is now cancelled. Stayed between the concourses/runways so no damage.

 

Looking at the ASOS site and the TDWR, it looks as if the ASOS site was within a few hundred feet of the tornado.

 

weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/KDEN?lang=en

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I just turned on the news, and there is a new fire, the "Lime Gulch Fire"

 

smoke/pyrocumulus plume is spreading 150 miles from the "West Fork Complex Fire" (Mineral County) ?

Here's some Sat pics. Smoke has filled in in Colorado Springs in the last hour. Smell is getting worse, hope I can keep the windows open tonight. 

 

Edit: the smoke in COS is supposedly from the fire in Walsenburg. 

 

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I can see the 594 contour on the Euro 00z, for days 6-10.  We don't need 600 dekameters. I think that would mean about 600 forest fires. Denver could get near its all time high temperature, (again,) given the general drought conditions of the southwest states. June 26-30 records at Denver:

26.  10527.  102  28.  99  29.  102  30.  102  

I think some storms will pop around Cheyenne, given very high moisture convergence, CAPE, and shear. I have rarely seen a 5000 CAPE with a north wind at relatively high elevations.

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Hot... looking like this June will be right around +5F DFN at DEN. Should make it into the top 10 warmest Junes, outside shot at top 5. Last year was the warmest by 1.5 F which is enormous. Last weekend was glorious and we got a little rain too! DEN got more rain than most of the area, and farther south is still drier. Good bunch of watering "cheaters" in our neighborhood ignoring the restrictions. Grr.

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I thought that the differences were normal were only at a +2 degrees.  Fort Collins has not been at a +5. It has been 80-85 many days. I don't know the exact value to date.

 

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/maps/current/

 

The Front Range corridor is back in a drought (D1).  Watering restrictions only existed for a short time in Fort Collins (I think), We had the snow, then think they took away the restrictions that they put in effect before it snowed. They may have to bring back the restrictions. Fort Collins has had very little rain.

 

Month to date precip: very low for Larimer and Boulder Counties. The western half of Colorado has seen around zero precipitation.

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Heatwave is beginning hear. About 95 today and near or above 100 the rest of the week and into next week. Probably peaking Sunday around 103-105.

That actually sounds pretty bad for the metro area.

 

I wonder if Death Valley will come within a few degrees of their Western Hemisphere record of 134

 

Death Valley

SUNDAY: Sunny and hot, with a high near 129.

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I thought that the differences were normal were only at a +2 degrees.  Fort Collins has not been at a +5. It has been 80-85 many days. I don't know the exact value to date.

 

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/maps/current/

 

The Front Range corridor is back in a drought (D1).  Watering restrictions only existed for a short time in Fort Collins (I think), We had the snow, then think they took away the restrictions that they put in effect before it snowed. They may have to bring back the restrictions. Fort Collins has had very little rain.

 

Month to date precip: very low for Larimer and Boulder Counties. The western half of Colorado has seen around zero precipitation.

OK, back to the calculator. Well, right now DEN is at +4.0 through today assuming it does not get hotter. Today will probably wind up at +8. To get to +5 for the month we'd have to average +11 the next 4 days, so that is a stretch, but +4.5 on the month is a good bet (would have to average +7.5 the next 4 days).. That would bring us up to roughly 7th alltime.

 

Denver Water has had restrictions since 4/1 and they'll doubtless continue given this month.

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Las Vegas has a shot at their all-time high of 117, set on 7/19/2005 and 7/24/1942.

 

Even more impressive is that Las Vegas may be close to setting daily record highs on 5 consecutive days:

 

06/28:  115 (1994)

06/29:  115 (1994)

06/30:  115 (1994)

07/01:  116 (1972)

07/02:  115 (1950) 

 

They will most likely set record high mins on all 5 days...but I don't consider that as important due to increasing UHI at McCarran over time.

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I thought that the differences were normal were only at a +2 degrees.  Fort Collins has not been at a +5. It has been 80-85 many days. I don't know the exact value to date.

 

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/maps/current/

 

The Front Range corridor is back in a drought (D1).  Watering restrictions only existed for a short time in Fort Collins (I think), We had the snow, then think they took away the restrictions that they put in effect before it snowed. They may have to bring back the restrictions. Fort Collins has had very little rain.

 

Month to date precip: very low for Larimer and Boulder Counties. The western half of Colorado has seen around zero precipitation.

Through yesterday DEN is +3.4...

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/BOU/CF6DEN

669 CXUS55 KBOU 260758CF6DENPRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6)                                          STATION:   DENVER CO                                          MONTH:     JUNE                                          YEAR:      2013                                          LATITUDE:   39 52 N                                                             LONGITUDE: 104 40 W                     TEMPERATURE IN F:       :PCPN:    SNOW:  WIND      :SUNSHINE: SKY     :PK WND ================================================================================1   2   3   4   5  6A  6B    7    8   9   10  11  12  13   14  15   16   17  18                                     12Z  AVG MX 2MINDY MAX MIN AVG DEP HDD CDD  WTR  SNW DPTH SPD SPD DIR MIN PSBL S-S WX    SPD DR================================================================================ 1  70  42  56  -7   9   0 0.00  0.0    0 10.9 29 340   M    M   5        39 340 2  84  39  62  -1   3   0 0.00  0.0    0 10.1 21 140   M    M   3        30 150 3  92  59  76  13   0  11 0.00  0.0    0 14.6 32 310   M    M   5 8      39 320 4  76  50  63  -1   2   0 0.07  0.0    0  9.4 31  40   M    M   7 13     37  40 5  61  46  54 -10  11   0 0.00  0.0    0  8.6 16  50   M    M   8 1      18  50 6  80  42  61  -3   4   0 0.00  0.0    0  8.1 16 150   M    M   3 1      21  20 7  86  48  67   2   0   2 0.00  0.0    0  9.9 24 260   M    M   7 3      29 270 8  77  53  65   0   0   0    T  0.0    0 14.1 32  20   M    M   5        41  10 9  89  47  68   3   0   3 0.00  0.0    0  9.4 21 200   M    M   1        28 19010  99  68  84  18   0  19 0.00  0.0    0 11.9 35 210   M    M   5        44 21011 100  57  79  13   0  14 0.00  0.0    0 16.1 28 260   M    M   3        38 22012  93  59  76  10   0  11 0.00  0.0    0 11.0 39 200   M    M   6 38     60 21013  94  53  74   7   0   9    T  0.0    0 10.5 33 290   M    M   7 3      43 28014  91  58  75   8   0  10 0.00  0.0    0 15.2 35 140   M    M   7 3      43 14015  84  55  70   3   0   5 0.00  0.0    0  8.9 17 150   M    M   4        24  6016  88  58  73   5   0   8 0.00  0.0    0 11.6 36 240   M    M   5        53 25017  84  51  68   0   0   3 0.00  0.0    0  8.5 24  80   M    M   6        29  8018  85  54  70   2   0   5 0.06  0.0    0 13.2 64  60   M    M   5 3X     97  4019  94  53  74   6   0   9 0.00  0.0    0 14.2 30 170   M    M   4 8      37 17020  91  56  74   5   0   9 0.00  0.0    0 11.0 23  20   M    M   3 18     28  2021  96  55  76   7   0  11 0.00  0.0    0  7.6 18  60   M    M   4        24  5022  89  55  72   2   0   7 0.11  0.0    0  8.1 25  30   M    M   5 3      31  4023  87  52  70   0   0   5 0.51  0.0    0  9.9 40 200   M    M   4 38     51 20024  91  56  74   4   0   9 0.00  0.0    0 11.8 26 170   M    M   7 3      32 17025  93  58  76   6   0  11 0.00  0.0    0  8.5 22 280   M    M   5        26 290================================================================================SM 2174 1324        29 161  0.75     0.0 273.1            M    124              ================================================================================AV 87.0 53.0                              10.9 FASTST            5    MAX(MPH)                                   MISC ---->  # 64  60     M   M     # 97   40   ================================================================================NOTES: SUNSHINE DATA WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1ST 2009.# LAST OF SEVERAL OCCURRENCESCOLUMN 17 PEAK WIND IN M.P.H.PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6) , PAGE 2                                          STATION:  DENVER CO                                          MONTH:    JUNE                                          YEAR:     2013                                          LATITUDE:   39 52 N                                                             LONGITUDE: 104 40 W                   [TEMPERATURE DATA]      [PRECIPITATION DATA]       SYMBOLS USED IN COLUMN 16    AVERAGE MONTHLY: 70.0   TOTAL FOR MONTH:   0.75    1 = FOG OR MIST              DPTR FM NORMAL:   3.4   DPTR FM NORMAL:   -0.93    2 = FOG REDUCING VISIBILITY  HIGHEST:   100 ON 11    GRTST 24HR  0.51 ON 23-23      TO 1/4 MILE OR LESS      LOWEST:     39 ON  2                               3 = THUNDER                                          SNOW, ICE PELLETS, HAIL    4 = ICE PELLETS                                      TOTAL MONTH:   0.0 INCH    5 = HAIL                                             GRTST 24HR     0.0         6 = FREEZING RAIN OR DRIZZLE                         GRTST DEPTH:   0           7 = DUSTSTORM OR SANDSTORM:                                                         VSBY 1/2 MILE OR LESS                                                       8 = SMOKE OR HAZE            [NO. OF DAYS WITH]      [WEATHER - DAYS WITH]      9 = BLOWING SNOW                                                                X = TORNADO                  MAX 32 OR BELOW:   0    0.01 INCH OR MORE:   4                                  MAX 90 OR ABOVE:  11    0.10 INCH OR MORE:   2                                  MIN 32 OR BELOW:   0    0.50 INCH OR MORE:   1                                  MIN  0 OR BELOW:   0    1.00 INCH OR MORE:   0                                  [HDD (BASE 65) ]                                                                TOTAL THIS MO.    29    CLEAR  (SCALE 0-3)   3                                  DPTR FM NORMAL   -29    PTCLDY (SCALE 4-7)  21                                  TOTAL FM JUL 1  6084    CLOUDY (SCALE 8-10)  1                                  DPTR FM NORMAL    30                                                            [CDD (BASE 65) ]                                                                TOTAL THIS MO.   161                                                            DPTR FM NORMAL    64    [PRESSURE DATA]                                         TOTAL FM JAN 1   203    HIGHEST SLP M ON M                                      DPTR FM NORMAL    84    LOWEST  SLP 29.44 ON 19                                 [REMARKS]
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That actually sounds pretty bad for the metro area.

 

I wonder if Death Valley will come within a few degrees of their Western Hemisphere record of 134

 

Death Valley

SUNDAY: Sunny and hot, with a high near 129.

 

That's the world record now... 136 in Libya was invalidated last year.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/weather/story/2012/09/14/death-valley-now-the-hottest-spot-in-the-world/57775492/1

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I was just peaking and see that they are now going with 130 for Sunday and Monday at this location. :yikes:

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=36.59960263506514&lon=-117.0957612991333#.Uc0dRpyurct

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Tuesday: 94.9 at Fort Collins.

 

Yesterday(Wednesday) it was 96.1 at the Fort Collins weather station. Highs of 98-99 degrees happened at several locations (Wunderground.com) between here and Denver, and also it was 99 at Fort Collins Loveland Airport.

 

37 Celsius/ 4 Celsius dew point

KFNL 272315Z AUTO 07007KT 10SM CLR 37/04 A3016 RMK AO1

 

Today it is moistening up, with dew points in the low 50's. We should have scattered thunderstorms with higher shear values. Maybe we will have a couple storm reports in the area. SPC has us in a "See Text" and 5%.

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