Mountain West Discussion

[frontranger8]

1 hour ago, mayjawintastawm said:

Smoke was a big inhibitor of heating yesterday along the central and northern Front Range/Urban Corridor, so storms never popped locally even when the outflows from the other storms moved through. Cap for the win. Hopefully today will be different (though I certainly don't need 2" hail!)

Yeah, severe t-storm watch and then couldn't even see any storms from here. Today looks a little less hazy, I think.

[mayjawintastawm]

Warmer for sure here today, and earlier, and sunnier- also less of the chilly N/NE wind we had yesterday. DP at 1 PM here was 62, the highest I've seen in a long time when it wasn't actively raining. All we need is lift.

EDIT: 85/63 at 3 PM. That's about the least Front Range-ish you can get.

[Chinook]

new mesoscale discussion

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 Probability of Watch Issuance...80 percent

   SUMMARY...Thunderstorm development appears likely by late afternoon
   for southeast Wyoming and into the Colorado Front Range. Watch
   issuance will likely be needed as convection begins to intensify.

 

[smokeybandit]

Not a drop for me the last two days.

[frontranger8]

2 hours ago, smokeybandit said:

Not a drop for me the last two days.

Damn, got hit pretty good here last night. Nearly continuous thunder/lightning for a couple hours, .34" of rain and some hail. Looked like the Littleton area really got slammed.

Getting some more light rain this morning, too.

[ValpoVike]

3 hours ago, smokeybandit said:

Not a drop for me the last two days.

I also had been missing out with storms going north and south of me, and mostly by a wide margin.  However this morning we had a nice, gentle 3 hour rain.  It only amounted to 0.19" but I'll take it.

[mayjawintastawm]

Yeah, we got 0.08"- storms really fizzled as they came out of the foothills here last night around 10 PM, no good explanation. Continuous lightning and thunder to the west, walked the dogs quickly and took the plants in, then 20 minutes later just some light rain and poof.

[frontranger8]

Squall line moving south down the Front Range from WY, kinda unusual. Will be interesting to see how far it makes it.

[Chinook]

A squall moved from Cheyenne to Fort Collins, and the windy outflow boundary made it down to Denver, with renewed storm development right at Denver