raindancewx Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Do you have the same concentration of warmest days right around the solstice up there? It's very rare for temperatures to top 100F here outside the June 22-29 week here. Something like half of all 100F or hotter readings here are in that period, even though it can be 100F here from early June to September. It was 96F here today. I'd bet pretty good money we have less than 10 days left over 95F here through September 30th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 The monsoon is slower, shorter, weaker and less reliable up here, so 100 F temps are more spread out, basically June 20-July 20. Hopefully getting toward the end, though I wouldn't rule it out till after about Aug 20. https://www.weather.gov/bou/local_climate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Looking over climate stuff... DEN has had 0.79 inches of rain May 15-July 15. May 15-July 14 only 0.58. Normal in that period is around 4 inches. Gotta be close to a record if anything like that is ever kept. I know other areas (downtown etc, and MBY- we've had about 2.5 inches in that time) have had somewhat more, but still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 If you do a plot on the NWS NOWDATA page (see the climate page) then I believe DIA has gotten 0.88" in this time period and the lowest on record is 0.66". So this is close to a record dry streak for these particular 61 days. According to the NWS 4-km precipitation analysis, most areas nearby are at least 80% of average precipitation in the last 60 days. edit: sometimes that 4-km gridded analysis doesn't exactly match up with this type of plot with airports/COOP stations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindancewx Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 We keep hitting 98F here, close, but no cigar for that elusive, non-June 100F reading. The GFS has been showing stupid amounts of rain for the RGV, the NAM has the rains on the east slopes of the Sandias and Manzano mountains which makes more sense to me. Either way, looking forward to temperatures closer to 90F again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 I got a couple of great sunset pictures, from different perspectives in town. I always wanted to get pictures like these. I don't typically seek out good spots away from the trees. We have had 4 days in the mid-90's in a row. Hopefully, a cool-down on Monday. 7/2 7/14: Long's Peak and Mt. Meeker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 Some heavier rain areas are starting to spread across the Denver metro/ north to Longmont. As severe thunderstorm watch is in effect Denver and southeast-ward. Now there's a tornado warned storm tracking toward Manitou Springs/ Pike's Peak. Seriously, there's a mountain that might disrupt the tornado inflow, if there ever is a tornado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindancewx Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 I'd look for a wetter August in Denver/Cheyenne v. last year if Nino 1.2 continues to warm up...or at least doesn't crash like it did last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Had a nice wet microburst in Aurora yesterday around 4:30 with our great thunderstorm that finally provided some good water. For about a minute I couldn't see across the street. Fortunately there wasn't much of anything nearby that could be damaged by the winds that were clocked at 61 mph at Buckley AFB. There was scattered street flooding, and some cars stuck in the water in Montbello. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 24, 2018 Author Share Posted July 24, 2018 Microburst time lapse posted by NWS Las Vegas: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 24, 2018 Author Share Posted July 24, 2018 1 hour ago, mayjawintastawm said: Had a nice wet microburst in Aurora yesterday around 4:30 with our great thunderstorm that finally provided some good water. For about a minute I couldn't see across the street. Fortunately there wasn't much of anything nearby that could be damaged by the winds that were clocked at 61 mph at Buckley AFB. There was scattered street flooding, and some cars stuck in the water in Montbello. Things were not terribly stormy, as we got 0.10" to 0.50" of rain in the area, with a few weak rumbles of thunder at my place yesterday. Over two days, my place got about 0.25". Thankfully, it was much cooler, around 70 for the afternoon. Parts of Larimer County have gotten some better rains in the past 2 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 Gorgeous supercell just about on top of us right now. Too bad I was in my car on the way home and couldn't take pics- very photogenic. Hail is a' comin'. There is a great horned owl in one of our trees sitting on the only branch that isn't moving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 This must have been the storm. Looks like 60-70 dBz at either I-225 or road C470. (Not sure) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 I flew in yesterday at this time and we were delayed by an hour dodging storms as the airport temporarily halted. It was beautiful from the air, but sadly my phone was out of battery and I could not take photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 13 hours ago, Chinook said: This must have been the storm. Looks like 60-70 dBz at either I-225 or road C470. (Not sure) Yup, that was it. Core of the hail passed just barely north of us near 225, but we got some pea-sized hail along with an inch of rain in 40 minutes or so. That poor owl got soaked, but didn't complain about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 26, 2018 Author Share Posted July 26, 2018 Another (marginally) severe hailstorm is tracking across the north metro I-25/E470, possibly tracking over DIA soon. edit: storm getting worse, possibly dropping 1.5" to 2.0" hail. This is showing a hook shape, but nothing big on velocity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Really interesting to see what's happening today. Plenty of moisture in place, but storms are much more discrete, with just 8 or 9 cells (several supercellular) on the FTG radar at this time, most all of them separated from one another by large distances. In between, nothing at all. Course, outflow boundaries crashing into each other could change that in a hurry, like last night. The last 2 days there was much more coverage with not as many discrete cells. Are the discrete cells sucking all the moisture away from the rest of the area? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindancewx Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Big, widespread heavy rains today with lots of thunder. Dropped to 64F briefly with the rains around 8 pm here. City is at 1.52" now for the month, after 1.40" in June. Pretty solid start. My May 10 Summer forecast for the city had a high of 92.1F and 1.55" rain, we're at 92.6F and 1.52" currently, so going to be damn close unless we get enormous amounts of rain the next five days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 This is a shelf cloud from a discrete (hail) cell NE of Fort Collins tonight. This was not taken from home, but a convenient location away from trees and houses. Otherwise, my area got just a few sprinkles, maybe 0.01" of rain today. Fort Collins has gotten above normal rain for this month,even though this storm missed by a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeeffectkid383 Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 My father in law in Wyoming sent me this link from the NWS Cheyenne. Absolutely incredible. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 This was the radar image of the hailstorm as it passed over Cheyenne. The storm expanded east-west as it developed. The west side of this storm broke off, and moved SSE, and that's my picture from last night (maybe weak rotation). (see 2nd image) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 3 hours ago, WesterlyWx said: My father in law in Wyoming sent me this link from the NWS Cheyenne. Absolutely incredible. Wow. Time to put on the hail tires again. Got me some of those last fall, on sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindancewx Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 If you get the time to see something nuts, we had two lines of thundershowers moving in different directions (N->S and W->E) today feed off one another and kind of explode over the Rio Grande Valley today. It's been raining where I am for close to four hours. After the rains yesterday, we only hit 87F today. Down to 63F when it rained. I was inside tonight and the hail made it through the door somehow into the house. Officially the city has had (at least) five days with 0.10" or more rain this July - which is starting to get into rarer territory. Tends to favor/indicate heavy snowfall in December here. So far, 3.5+ inches of rain here since June 1 (average is 2 inches). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Watching the storms on Friday roll overhead around 2:30pm, there was a lot of shear. It was a cool sight to watch the cloud deck moving in several different directions at increasing height. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Chinook looks to get walloped in a few minutes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 With all the severe weather the past few days on the plains, we've overlooked that the western 2/3 of CO has been pretty dry again, during what looked like a monsoonish period not long ago. Hopefully that will reset over the next few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 These are storm reports from just Wyoming and Colorado CWAs, and Goodland CWA, July 26th-30th. Tornadofest! A few of the hail/wind icons represent sub-severe wind and hail, but not too many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 On 7/29/2018 at 7:08 PM, ValpoVike said: Chinook looks to get walloped in a few minutes... I live in Loveland now, so the hail missed me. Fort Collins and Loveland got above normal precipitation for July. Yay! Today, we have upper 80's probably 90 near I-25, and the smoke from distant wildfires is much worse. Many of our recent days have been a little hazy and cloudy at times, but today, I can't see Long's Peak from Loveland. It is in a world of haze. I think I might even smell smoke, but it is hard to detect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 4 hours ago, Chinook said: I live in Loveland now, so the hail missed me. Fort Collins and Loveland got above normal precipitation for July. Yay! Today, we have upper 80's probably 90 near I-25, and the smoke from distant wildfires is much worse. Many of our recent days have been a little hazy and cloudy at times, but today, I can't see Long's Peak from Loveland. It is in a world of haze. I think I might even smell smoke, but it is hard to detect. Ah, you now live in my shopping town Yeah, this haze sucks. I have a buddy that just returned from hiking around Tahoe and he said it was very smoky and stinky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 I think this is the worst non-local smoke/haze we've had since we moved here in 2010. Reminds me of when I lived in NC where you couldn't really see the actual blue sky from July through Labor Day, and visibility averaged about 7 miles on a normal day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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