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Now the SPC has put out an outlook that wouldn't have been possible before this year: 15% double-hatched hail outlook for eastern Colorado. I would expect a severe thunderstorm watch in Denver. I'm sure last week's storm was a bit of a shock for lots of people... quick 15% outlook, and everybody gets hail all in one day.

storm system coming east from Pittsburgh has 70 kt winds seen on base velocity

Do any of you know how to access any new NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data? I was doing a daily map of 500mb anomalies, from the NOAA PSD web site : https://psl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/composites/printpage.pl Then, in March, I found that the data had stopped. How has it possibly stopped? I don't get it. They do NCEP/NCAR reanalysis every day. But now they don't. Say for example, what if I wanted to do a plot of the global 850mb temperature anomaly on March 19, 2026? It's not there. The 20th-Century reanalysis project doesn't cover 2026. I emailed them. They gave me some brief answers, but not much.

How did you find the combined temperature average for Spring, and the ranking? I don't see any seasonal summary on the NWS local offices' climate web sites. All I can see is the climate summary for each month. Also, I can use the NOWDATA to see the average value or each (single) month. I am just curious.

This happened earlier. You can't even see the city names near Denver because the screen is covered with local storm report hail icons and MPING hail icons. Probably the new storm north of US-36 is the storm that chasers are heading to now.

The recent rainy pattern has reduced drought in the Southeast, eastern Texas, and Colorado.

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