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Is it just me, or is September (or late August) the new June when it comes to severe events? Not as many, but just as strong.

In the "should we be jealous?" category, my old neighborhood in Shrewsbury, MA (just east of Worcester) just got 3.2" of rain this morning in under 2 hours from the remnants of Fred, with a maximum rain rate of 3.78"/hour at the peak. It's done now... though Henri may be interesting in a few days. I don't think I've ever experienced rain that heavy. Lots of localized flooding, but that area can take heavy rain with fairly minimal damage- probably mostly basements that need to be pumped out and cars turning into boats in low lying areas. 

Indeed- since 7/5 we've had 0.4" rain. There are distribution issues! VV- cannot believe that is a road with those boulders, wow!

Well, in late August climatologically you often get the first cold fronts of the season coming down from Canada into the Northern Rockies on north to northwest winds. The 6-10 day forecast hints at that. At the same time, climatologically we're getting into the worst of fire season, and fires don't stop at the Canadian border. So while you have a smaller chance of being affected by the CA and OR fires, those in WA, BC and Alberta might be more likely to be in play. Good luck. I'm so tired of not being able to see the stars or the mountains on "clear" days from Denver.

3 hours ago, ValpoVike said:

Yup and that is my neighborhood (The Retreat).  We have been having burn scar flooding periodically since July 4th. We have already lost two roads in the neighborhood from crazy washout. Today was the roughest though.  Several hours of rain today but it has stopped for now.  The North Fork is fine but pretty full. It gets dicey where the Miller Fork meets it.  Coal black water...

Dang, good luck. Meanwhile here we’ve had a trace and Centennial Airport has had a whopping 0.01”. 

Flash flood emergency for the Miller Fork and North Fork of the Big Thompson, due to heavy rain on burn scars. Glen Haven and Drake are in some trouble. These are some of the areas hit hardest in 2013.

23 hours ago, Chinook said:

This is pretty bad

Yes it was. 100.9 at our house and 102 at DIA.

On 7/2/2021 at 7:14 PM, cptcatz said:

Except that the cold DID bother her... remember when she couldn't get her act together in the eastern Atlantic because of the cold SSTs?  Very un-Elsa-like...

right... and the shear is not helping either. A TC is a TC, mostly.

Remember Wilma? Lots of good fodder for that one, and it was actually pretty consequential.  Hurricane Barney, on the other hand, probably not so much.

OK, gotta get it out of my system, promise this will be all...

Elsa says: 

The cold never bothered me anyway....

The shear never bothered me anyway....

The land never bothered me anyway...

Any others?

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.

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.

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.

Bumping this up before it gets buried. I forget just how cold and rainy the first week of May tends to be here. The gloometer is about as high as it ever goes. 1.30" of rain from this event so far, though it's about done. Got some wet snow in the air this AM but never got below 36.

I think the new GFS, seeing that its predecessor was no longer with us, has decided it would imitate the old version and lose its mind.

Last storm never got anywhere close to snowy and in fact we only got 0.60" precip. 

On 4/20/2021 at 11:08 AM, ValpoVike said:

I'm ready for snow season to end too, and also hoping that the Monsoon actually shows up this year.  The lack of a real monsoon last year seems to me to be what drove the massive fires last year.

Darn right. The dryness fed on itself last year with windy, somewhat hot days all through summer and dew points rivaling those on Mars. The early melt out didn't help, but things could have been mitigated by at least SOME wet thunderstorms... nope.

Today was like a lake effect snow day, cloudy and raw, with a good band with around 3 inches of snow just 7-8 miles north, but only flurries here. Not enough to measure at all.

3.7" last night, 4" last week, season total now up to 83.7". Pretty sure this is a top 2 season for me since 2010. I think we can about stick a fork in this one, having begun 7 1/2 months ago. I kind of hope. Bring on hail season

1 hour ago, Chinook said:

My place has about 1" on the grass, most was in the last 2 hours.

Roughly the same here. Bone dry all week till this afternoon then about 1.5” snow so far.

1 hour ago, Chinook said:

my place

total snow since October 1st 67.2" (Fort Collins - CSU: 60.7")

total precip since October 1st : 9.97" (Fort Collins-CSU: 6.05")

I didn't count September snowfall, as that was kind of a weird out-of-season snow storm that was a pretty weird snow-to-liquid ratio.

 

Wow that's wet!!

My automated rain gauge is crappy with snow (undercounts like crazy) but guessing our precipitation since 9/1 is about 6". 76.0" snow, counting the bit in Sept and also the half inch last night.

On 4/5/2021 at 3:32 PM, raindancewx said:

I do think there is one pretty major cold shot later in the month though, going by the timing of the prior cold shots. You guys probably aren't completely done with snow just yet.

Yeah, all the fruit tree blossoms have frozen 2 years in a row, might as well make it a 3rd...

On 3/30/2021 at 4:39 PM, smokeybandit said:

A nice cold front, but less than 1" of snow. The good stuff stayed to the north and west (story of my winter).

 

Looks like spring in full force for the near future though

What's your season total? Most years, Parker area (especially >6000) is a good 10-15 inches or more greater than DIA.

Yup, high here was 74 yesterday, low this AM was 24. More good moisture- was already starting to get pretty dry with the wind over the weekend. Soon we'll have to start the warm season thread.

Surprised by another 4.2 inches this morning- now 75.5" on the season and 34 inches for March!

On 3/22/2021 at 4:12 PM, smokeybandit said:

28" of snow in the months prior to the blizzard. 26" since then. 

Yup, fairly typical for many years to have 3/1 as the midway point. I had 41.5" pre-blizzard thanks to an early start, then 28.3" since, guessing we'll get about another 5-10" more to finish with a respectable 75-80" on the season. Average for me is about 55".

4 inches in 4 hours here, now a lull. Not bad.