mayjawintastawm Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 100.9 F for a high at my weather station on my roof today. 5-6 F higher than the official NWS reporting stations nearby, but 2 of the 3 PWSs nearest my house all also registered 100+ for a high. This is the first 100 since I installed it last September 6. This week has undone a good chunk of the nice wet cool weather we had over the past month and a half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 11, 2021 Author Share Posted June 11, 2021 My area got to about 95, which is maybe 3 degrees warmer than yesterday, I think Sunset with forest fire smoke from SE Utah my picture of Devil's Backbone park in Loveland. There's a hole in the rock. Thankfully, I did not take this picture when it was 95 degrees! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 14, 2021 Author Share Posted June 14, 2021 Some storms built over my area, going slightly westward at sunset. Despite the rainy month of May, this is only the 2nd day when I have seen lightning this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 After over 3" in May, we've gotten 0.06" in June so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 On 6/13/2021 at 9:36 PM, Chinook said: Some storms built over my area, going slightly westward at sunset. Despite the rainy month of May, this is only the 2nd day when I have seen lightning this year. I watched the radar loop on this on Sunday, and it was the oddest storm motion that I can recall. It stumbled like a drunken pirate...moving northeast, then west, then a very sudden about-face to move east before dissipating. The anvil was a beautiful site from up here though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 15, 2021 Author Share Posted June 15, 2021 I put my indoor thermometer on the front porch in the shade and I got 98.5 today. The heat is coming in too early this year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 We actually got 1 inch hail Sunday afternoon when we were away along with 0.25" of rain. I came home to find a lot of tree junk all over the place and some melting hailstones that were still about 0.8 inches. Lots of spotter reports of 1" hail and one of 1.5". Then 103 today at my PWS. Yuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 It got up to 100 at a couple of Loveland mesonet stations. Fort Collins-CSU broke a record with 98, exceeding a previous record of 94. Phoenix tied a record high of 115. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 17, 2021 Author Share Posted June 17, 2021 Today- high temps around 100 degrees were common here. For my area, there were some clouds today, and it even got at or close to 100 before and after the clouds. sunset on 6/15 with forest fire smoke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 18, 2021 Author Share Posted June 18, 2021 High temps maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 I shot this off my deck this evening. This is looking east towards Loveland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 20, 2021 Author Share Posted June 20, 2021 Yes, there was a weak storm near me, but a more impressive storm near Cheyenne what was visible at about 8:00 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 25, 2021 Author Share Posted June 25, 2021 severe thunderstorm warning for Boulder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 This moisture has been great to see. Rain every day since Thursday. Perhaps a bit too much on Saturday night when we had a rather long duration of several hours of moderate rain and we had some burn scar issues up here. We lost a portion of a road in our neighborhood due to a blowout upstream with debris flowing down. But I'll take that over last summer's relentless drought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 My back yard got about 0.8" Could use double that to get my lawn's brown spots in gear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 27, 2021 Author Share Posted June 27, 2021 my observations june 18 evening: lightning picture, distant thunderstorm picture, trace of rain june 19-20- trace of rain, some rain in Fort Collins june 24-25- 0.37" of rain, some lightning june 25-26- 0.35" rain, some lightning june 26-27- 0.03" rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 My @$#% rain gauge hasn't been working, have to go up and fix it. But all the PWSs around here got 3" of rain total Fri through Sat and given the buckets in our yard I don't doubt that a bit. We were up camping in Golden Gate Canyon getting soaked every time we were out of the tent, and pretty darn cold. We actually came home early for the first time in decades. Go figure. wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KC Storm Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Wow is it hot out your way. Stay cool all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Some Lenticular clouds starting to form. It is hard to tell from my vantage, but looks like it may be over Long's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 I don't think my place got a single flash flood watch last year. Some CAM models have maximums of 1.25" to 1.75" near Denver today. The current HRRR has a variable 0.55" to 1.0" for Denver city in the next 18 hrs. Quote * Flash Flood Watch * Through this evening. * Increasing moisture and instability today will lead to widespread thunderstorm development by the early afternoon. Heavy rain and flash flooding will be possible in these slow moving storms, especially over burn areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 There has already been some localized heavy rain at Greeley, and some new storms near Loveland and south of DIA, and with some storm development at Denver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 Pueblo doesn't get very much rain or snow on average, but sometimes there is a highly organized (tornado warned) supercell such as this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 My flood watch netted me 0.08" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 2, 2021 Author Share Posted July 2, 2021 Not a whole lot of rain happened at I-25. As for me, only light to moderate rain happened a couple of times. As per usual, flash flood watches in western areas have few spots that have heavy rain on any given day. Maybe we will turn things around and get some better rainfall in July. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindancewx Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 For the past year, the precipitation patterns locally have behaved much more like older years than recent years. Will be real curious to see if that continues into the rest of Summer and Fall. The most similar years to July-June 2020-21 also produced a wet monsoon. Some of the early things I look at imply a reversion toward a neutral or positive PDO base state by late year too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 3, 2021 Author Share Posted July 3, 2021 I won't put this in the "serious" Hurricane Elsa discussion 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 FoCo kinda stands out here: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 4, 2021 Author Share Posted July 4, 2021 A small rain shower hit us before sunset on Friday. These are some of my best sunset color pics in recent memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 We got hit today by 3 strong cells. And we also got hit by the most specific flash flood warning I have seen, for only our neighborhood. The burn scars sent a nice wall of water down two streams and took out a couple of roads. It has rained for 9 out of the last 10 days now. This is the Larimer County Sheriff's Office with an emergency message. Dangerous flooding is occurring in The Retreat Area of Glen Haven. Streamside Dr and Fishermans Ln are the most impacted areas at this time. Immediately reach higher ground by any means necessary. Avoid area subject to flooding including dips, low spots, ditches, etc. and do not attempt to cross flowing streams or creeks. If driving, be aware that the road may not be intact under flood waters. Never drive through flooded roadways - turn around and go another way. If your vehicle stalls, leave it immediately and seek higher ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 8, 2021 Author Share Posted July 8, 2021 This is pretty bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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