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This strange weather pattern has provided plenty of rain to Texas, with relatively little severe weather, and now rain showers are moving toward the Front Range cities from the SE

There were large sub-severe squall lines and a few supercells in Texas today. One supercell crossed the Rio Grande and produced a brief tornado at US-277 about 1 mile from the border

22-degree halo around the sun (enhanced color saturation)

NWS/WPC forecasts 1" of rain for eastern Colorado and New Mexico this week. We'll see how it turns out. Best of luck busting the long-term drought for a lot of areas of the country. As mentioned by somebody, the drought is down to D1 in Larimer County, but that's a limited area. Strange weather pattern with a cutoff low in the West. There seem to be no interesting severe weather outlooks anytime soon. The NWS/CPC latest ENSO bulletin said we are in a neutral phase, with El Nino onset expected soon. The SST anomalies in the Pacific are already positive. The current weather pattern has rain all week in the southern USA. It already has some of the looks of an El Nino. Including storm chasers sitting at home and doing nothing. They say it could be a large El Nino by the time we get to winter.

A few severe storms are out west of Minneapolis, where the dew points are only 50 degrees.

I finally found a sundog

This storm has a tornado warning now

perhaps another highly dangerous flood

possible dangerous flash flooding in Dallas, and small hail was reported

Visible satellite of Wyoming before some melting

Estes Park RMNP web cams shows 5 to maybe more inches at RMNP Fall River Road. Pine trees look like they have 8"

Considerable severe thunderstorm warnings for Michigan

snow reported at the cities in central/southern Wyoming and also here at RMNP:

sunset tonight

SPC storm reports says 4.50" near Hamilton! I wonder how many injuries there are per year from 2.75" plus hail. I know there are essentially no fatalities from hail.

possible 2-3" hail and rotation southwest of Fort Worth

Huge supercell in central Texas with hail wrapping in the RFD, overhang, possible 3" hail. New tornado warning here

My place had like 10 min of thunder and some rain in between lots of sunshine

possible 2.3" hail to 30000 ft

total precip was: 1.75" in Fort Collins 1.60" Loveland 2.0" Boulder 1.2" Denver 1.75" Estes Park 0.43" Colorado Springs 0.63" Pueblo 1.0" Cheyenne

looks like it's back to summer

Looks like 5-7" around Denver, 9-11" around Boulder, 5-8" around Fort Collins, 8.5"-27" in the mountains, 8" near Colorado Springs.

radar for 8:21 mountain time