ValpoVike Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 I am having concerns about heavy rain should storms fire as predicted today. My home weather station is showing a current dewpoint of 60, which is very unusual for my location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 I was getting 1.5" per hour rates in the afternoon round of storms. Just a hair south was probably getting double that and a recently repaired stretch of road that got washed out in June got washed out again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted July 21, 2023 Author Share Posted July 21, 2023 We probably had the most cycles of rain-thunder-sun-rain that we've ever had today, like 6. None of the storms lasted more than an hour, most like 10-15 minutes. Moving really fast! Weird. Started at 5 AM, also very weird for here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 I spotted a storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 Google maps panorama of RMNP's Alpine Visitor Center, with date-tag in December . In December, you couldn't drive on Trail Ridge Road, you would be freezing to death with 5 ft snow depth!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted July 30, 2023 Author Share Posted July 30, 2023 Looking like we'll have a week of monsoon, finally. Will be a nice change, though I can't complain too much about summer heat this year. Things have been pretty dry around here the last two weeks, with the sprinklers on regular summer mode to keep things from getting too crispy. The mosquitoes are slowly diminishing, which is nice, though I imagine they'll pick back up in a week or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 I guess you guys are in a normal monsoon pattern with moisture coming out of the desert, storms developing over the mountains, and better than average dew points over the plains. At this moment, possible 2" hail at Boulder, Wellington Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 It's the most predictable thing about northern Colorado weather in most years: the rainy monsoon nights about the beginning of August. And the dew point there is higher than my dew point in Ohio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 Quote * Flash Flood Warning for... East Central Larimer County in north central Colorado... * Until 1115 PM MDT. * At 814 PM MDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 0.5 and 3 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing in Wellington and expected to begin shortly in the Fort Collins area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 9 hours ago, Chinook said: You should try to watch a loop of the activity in Larimer county during the Ft Collins rain event. The dynamics and storm motions were interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 Yes, the storm that started by Wellington propagated southwestward and sat over Fort Collins. My Radarscope program said there were about 150 lightning strikes near north Fort Collins in the recent time frame. That's one of the things that can happen with the non-westerly flow that powers up the monsoon surges. There are slow upper level winds, and the tendency to pop new storms at the foothills and the cities and they can move so slow that it becomes a flash flood. I'm assuming there were street flooding problems at Fort Collins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 Already one flash flood warning issued today (Jefferson County) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 The storms today are starting to look like a repeat of last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 More scattered and not as heavy tonight. DIA didn't even get anything measurable. I'm guessing we got 0.2" here. On the good side, I got a new Ambient Weather station for my birthday a few days back to replace an aging AcuRite one, so once I can get up to my roof to install it, we'll have some good data from here. My current rain gauge got stuck and hasn't cooperated since the heavy stuff started in May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 I've gotten an inch total with the last 3 days of storms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 3, 2023 Author Share Posted August 3, 2023 3 hours ago, smokeybandit said: I've gotten an inch total with the last 3 days of storms. I'm about that or a little more given PWSs in my area, probably 0.7" Monday, 0.2" Tuesday and 0.4" yesterday. Nice! Should have planted shrubs when we were thinking about it earlier in the summer. We probably won't get another year like this for a long time. I'm guessing this is a really nice opportunity for the trees in the Front Range metro to recover from the last couple of tough years and the fall colors will be remarkable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 3, 2023 Author Share Posted August 3, 2023 Severe thunderstorm with 1.25 inch hail zeroing in on DIA. Should make some interesting pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 New flash flood warning for west of Loveland (Masonville.) I kind of liked going over to Bobcat Ridge park over there, but there's not a lot of trails. Severe storm watch for eastern Colorado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 Woke up around 2’ish this morning to the sound of boulders crashing down the Miller Fork. Fortunately I live 300’ above the streams but many got flood damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 5, 2023 Share Posted August 5, 2023 And yet another severe thunderstorm watch for SE Colorado, with probably a few supercells getting going soon. This is pretty late in the season for wind shear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 17 hours ago, Chinook said: And yet another severe thunderstorm watch for SE Colorado, with probably a few supercells getting going soon. This is pretty late in the season for wind shear. I flew in last night and we had to take quite a detour to get around those storms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Maybe a double tornado, closer to Goodland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 10, 2023 Author Share Posted August 10, 2023 On 8/8/2023 at 8:05 PM, Chinook said: Maybe a double tornado, closer to Goodland That cell was spawning tornadoes for about 2 and a half hours, according to NWS storm reports. Our friends north of Burlington whose ranch is right on 385 were maybe 5-8 miles from it and saw the tail end. Scary. It would have passed right over their house had it kept going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 16, 2023 Author Share Posted August 16, 2023 Several PWSs over 100 degrees right now, closest one to me reading 98. Hottest day of the year so far in my neighborhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 Hopefully the last surge of heat for the season. "Only" 90 in my back yard, thankfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newman Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 Looks like KLAR broke daily records the past two days, made it to 89 yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 21, 2023 Author Share Posted August 21, 2023 I guess there are no California posters in this subforum- posting here because "mountain west" may include the San Gabriels etc. Lots of totals from the last 36 hours in southern CA over 5 inches- half their yearly rainfall. Flash flooding, road washouts. Palm Springs is in particularly rough shape. Anybody from that area? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 This widespread heavy rain event predicted looks to be a gigantic bust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 7 minutes ago, smokeybandit said: This widespread heavy rain event predicted looks to be a gigantic bust. I’ll take it. Light but steady rain all day so far. Our area in Larimer county just can’t take a heavy rain event after so many this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 25, 2023 Author Share Posted August 25, 2023 Still plenty of time to get good rains later this afternoon and overnight. Super hard to forecast- if there had been even a tiny opportunity for convection it would be raining very hard somewhere, but as a few forecasts hinted last night, convective temps were not a slam dunk. Still, the few showers we've had around here have been efficient rain producers, and a few areas have had a lot so far especially north of town. Closest PWS to me has 0.47" so far today. It's pretty chilly!! 61 here near DTC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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