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KFTG radar is working again after mechanical systems upgrades.

Fort Collins had the 2nd warmest August on record, that is, 73.8, degrees, and it slightly beats August 2020, at 73.5 degrees. It wasn't very rainy at Fort Collins or Loveland. If I had been in Loveland, the nearest CoCoRAHS would have been 0.67" of rain. Denver had the 3rd warmest August, 76.1 degrees, which was cooler than August 2020 and August 2011, both 77.0 degrees. 1.45" of rain. areas of south Denver: 2.19" of rain At the place I'm at now in Ohio, it dumped rain several times in the month of August. In fact, I just saw 7.5x as much rain as I would have seen in Loveland. There's not a hint of brown grass. The 75 dew points have gone away, and, of course, there was not a record-setting warm or cold temperature at all. On a side note, Toledo got to a dew point of 76 on two non-consecutive days in August, that ties for the highest dew point I've seen in 20+ years. I sort of saw a decent squall line on Monday. Maybe that storm system could have been classified as a derecho across Indiana. So that brings back a lot of nice memories of getting 45-50mph winds right after the air was just muggy.

A second named storm could get going in about 108 hours near south Mexico

Super Typhoon Hinnamnor tracked to the southwest quite a few miles today. It was relatively close to Okinawa around 24 hours ago. The 00z advisory from JTWC has it up to 140 knots. It is east of Taiwan. It is not right on Ishigaki island. (part of Japan, I believe.) Now that's a lot of wind.

various severe storms in Illinois and Indiana

it's coming my direction

Radar VWP measured 60kt (69mph) at the surface

NWS-Fort Worth specific information from today

cool picture

Here is the CoCoRAHS precipitation since July 1st at Centennial, south of Denver. Not too bad, considering how badly the Denver area needed rain.

Here's something kind of off topic. I checked CIPS analogs two years ago (September 2020) to see if the forecast weather pattern resembled -September- snowstorms of the past. It did.

for those interested, the geomagnetic activity is pretty high tonight. Space weather prediction center seems to predict weak auroras right now but I don't know why not strong auroras.

Model ensembles and the NWS show a higher chance for maybe 1"-2" of rainfall above normal for Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico. (note: Tropical Tidbits plot is for Day-3 to Day-9)

Precip from Denver metro area. There was up to 2.29" in the southeast sector (Foxfield? Aurora?)

flash flood and reported 60mph wind gust in SE Denver

heavy rain heading downhill toward Mayjawintastawm's place. (even though I don't know what area that is, exactly) Flash floods warnings near Glen Haven, Big Thompson Canyon (not sure how serious this is)

The 30-day and 60-day percent of normal precipitation. The Colorado River basin and New Mexico have had a lot of precipitation above normal since June. For Jul 16 to Aug 14 the map shows it has been at about 100% near Denver, but I think that may have varied a lot. Some areas from Greeley southward, to around DIA got missed by heavier precipitation. On the third map, US Drought monitor shows a change to the 1-to-2 drought categories more drought right at I-25 but a change to a 1-category less drought at some of the adjacent mountains, and much less drought in southern Colorado.

forecast 48 hr precip from the 18z NAM, the NWS, and the 00z HRRR

There has been 48-hour precipitation of 0.4" to 3.0" in the mountains of Boulder County, Larimer County, and Clear Creek County. Has there been a flash flood at Estes Park? I don't know.

The Atlantic is pathetic

link: https://krdo.com/news/2022/08/08/almost-30-people-were-rescued-in-denver-after-severe-flash-flooding/

I have moved. I will keep posting sometimes. I've seen quite a bit of rain and some reasonable lightning/thunder in Ohio since I've been back. Funny thing. When the dew point is 75 and you are at sea level, your nose doesn't dry out. I keep looking for the 00z NAM data to be available at 8:00PM, but it's not done by 8:00PM Eastern time! since I left, Loveland got 1.26" of precipitation and Fort Collins got 2.98" of precipitation (I picked a couple of CoCoRAHS stations) my "secret" web sites in case you wanted to know For winter snowpack https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/wcc/home/quicklinks/imap https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref/gis/images/west_swepctnormal_update dot png (change that dot) https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/co/snow/products/?cid=nrcseprd1432263 other info (not winter) https://mesowest.utah.edu https://mrms.nssl.noaa.gov/qvs/product_viewer/ https://aviationweather.gov/metar This is my only view of the mountains now. picture of aspen trees near the upper end of the Poudre River

some rainfall amounts over 3.81" in Illinois/Iowa

This retweet from Reed Timmer is a little less dramatic. Same tornado, I think.

Fort Collins had the 5th warmest July (tie). The value was 75.1 degrees, which is higher than any monthly temperature for June or August. With a couple of very rainy days, Fort Collins had 3.84" of rain, which is effectively about 2" above average. This value over 3" was pretty localized, as Loveland Co-op station got 1.46" Denver, 2nd warmest July (also, 2nd warmest month), only 0.99" of rain Boulder, 5th warmest July Greeley, possibly 2nd warmest July maybe 1"-2" for the general Denver area, which, I guess is not too bad if it is up near 2".