Mountain West Discussion

[Chinook]

This storm has a tornado warning now

[Chinook]

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.

[frontranger8]

On 5/25/2026 at 6:43 PM, Chinook said:

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.

I've seen more hype for a super Nino this coming winter than I ever remember before.

[mayjawintastawm]

10 hours ago, frontranger8 said:

I've seen more hype for a super Nino this coming winter than I ever remember before.

[Chinook]

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

[smokeybandit]

I swear I have a force field around my house. I just had rain and thunderstorm activity within 3 miles to my north, south, east and west. And didn't get any measurable rain.

[frontranger8]

1 hour ago, smokeybandit said:

I swear I have a force field around my house. I just had rain and thunderstorm activity within 3 miles to my north, south, east and west. And didn't get any measurable rain.

Been the same here the past couple of days. Lots of lightning yesterday evening, storms all around...and .01".

[frontranger8]

Got nailed today. Ping pong sized hail and .45" in 30 minutes.

[smokeybandit]

Some impressive hail and localized rain Denver and metro south and east.  But a nice cell that was headed my direction dried up before it got to me.

[Chinook]

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.

 

[smokeybandit]

Finally got a solid storm (and hail that was appreciably small) today. My yard was due after all the storms spinning up all around me the last week or so.