smokeybandit Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted June 22, 2023 Author Share Posted June 22, 2023 well, that's exciting. West toward the population centers, not much of anything happening, and dewpoints are slowly dropping. Just a couple tiny lonely cells. Might be a nothingburger for most of us unless the front/outflow boundaries move west and south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 Hail in northeast Denver, also Coal Creek in the mountains Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted June 22, 2023 Author Share Posted June 22, 2023 What a difference an outflow boundary makes!! Radar loop (which I can't figure out how to post) the last hour is impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 1.5" overnight with some rates reaching near 1.5" per hour Avoided the hail though, thankfully, and avoided the training that other areas got Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted June 22, 2023 Author Share Posted June 22, 2023 Surprisingly, given all the chaos last night, no COCORAHS site got more than 3" in the extended Metro area. I wonder if there were a few spot areas that got more, as the scope of flooding in some spots made it look like more. We got just over a half inch of rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 7 hours ago, smokeybandit said: 1.5" overnight with some rates reaching near 1.5" per hour Avoided the hail though, thankfully, and avoided the training that other areas got that's a lot. New severe warning for Denver, hail is likely to be in downtown pretty soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted June 22, 2023 Author Share Posted June 22, 2023 F**K. PDS tornado warning in Highlands ranch moving toward Parker. Smokeybandit, get inside and down in the basement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 55 minutes ago, mayjawintastawm said: F**K. PDS tornado warning in Highlands ranch moving toward Parker. Smokeybandit, get inside and down in the basement! Just .25"/.5" hail here. Though enough to clog gutters and making my yard a river again. I was eyeing that cell though willing it die out, which it did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted June 22, 2023 Author Share Posted June 22, 2023 32 minutes ago, smokeybandit said: Just .25"/.5" hail here. Though enough to clog gutters and making my yard a river again. I was eyeing that cell though willing it die out, which it did. Whew! good news. Looked like it was making a beeline for Parker, then after it crossed I-25 it fizzled. We ended up OK too, the hail somehow went one way or another over our neighborhood. On another note, now that we've had a fair number of tornadoes in Eastern CO this year, it seems like the vast majority, even big ones like how this started out, come and go within a few minutes/miles. Long- or even medium-track ones are rare indeed. Even in the Northeast where I grew up it's not uncommon to see them go 5-10 miles when they do occur, although it's rare to see any at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 And hail went right through downtown Denver again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 A big hail season this year! Fortunately nothing destructive so far as I know today. Picture from Coors field from a couple hours ago. Crazy thing is that the first picture I found was a similar view from June 28, 2016. This week tends to be quite the severe weather week for Denver, year over year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 Denver has a record rainfall, of a type. I checked the NOWDATA precipitation accumulation plot for April 22-June 30: 12.05" of rain at Denver, maximum of all time periods of exactly these calendar days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 Happy summertime! (note: I have cut the parts of this image with license plates) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 Loveland is about to get a lot wetter just a few hours before the fireworks at Lake Loveland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 Some lightning and hail a 6:23pm before fireworks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted July 5, 2023 Author Share Posted July 5, 2023 We threaded the needle and stayed dry, though I wish we hadn't, given the enormous number of large fireworks people are lighting off in our neighborhood. Didn't need that roof, anyway... Then of course after I wrote this, we got deluged by close to an inch of rain with some hail after 11 PM. These nighttime downpours are something I have not experienced much before this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 Estes Park fireworks got postponed to July 15. Not sure about other communities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 I flew in last night and spent about an hour in a hold pattern waiting for storms to clear to land. Then got soaked walking across the parking lot to our car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayjawintastawm Posted July 6, 2023 Author Share Posted July 6, 2023 Just looking once more at climate stats as we hopefully near the end of this crazy period... Centennial Airport had 8.99" of rain in June, and over 17" since April 22nd. Just nuts. Only time I've experienced this degree of rain before was when we lived in MA, and had 15" in June of 2008 or 2009. The tomato plants grew to 8 feet high that summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 On 7/5/2023 at 10:33 AM, smokeybandit said: I flew in last night and spent about an hour in a hold pattern waiting for storms to clear to land. Then got soaked walking across the parking lot to our car. Welcome to tropical Colorado! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValpoVike Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 Lookie at what happened today. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 I've never seen 7000 J/kg CAPE so far west, that is, in Colorado right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 highly sheared cells Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 13, 2023 Share Posted July 13, 2023 In the past 365 days since I've been gone, you guys scooped up all the drought in the West and mooshed it over to Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 possible tornado way down southeast close to Springfield CO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 This is a stretch of 110's that I seriously would not want to happen to me. Do you want to know something else that's crazy? If this month's Phoenix temperature of 101.2 was compared to Phoenix 1951-1980 data, it would be 8.9 degrees F above normal. Phoenix (Sky Harbor) Late June Phoenix (Sky Harbor) July Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BYG Jacob Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 TUCSON GOT RAIN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Now it was 128 at Death Valley CA climate station on the 16th. That's just some incredible heat. I wonder how many people drive there and realize their air conditioning can't keep up and have it 85-90 in the car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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