Mountain West Discussion

[smokeybandit]

Another good day for my general area, but man my house is rain repellant. Flash floods to my west, heavy rain to my north and east, and heavy rain to my southwest headed my way, but drying up 2 miles down the road.

[mayjawintastawm]

2 hours ago, smokeybandit said:

Another good day for my general area, but man my house is rain repellant. Flash floods to my west, heavy rain to my north and east, and heavy rain to my southwest headed my way, but drying up 2 miles down the road.

...here I am, stuck in a dry zone in Parker..." Apologies to Stealers Wheel, if they're still alive. 

[smokeybandit]

I did get an extended power outage out of it though!

[frontranger8]

Got smacked yesterday evening with a direct hit from a storm that was severe warned shortly after. Thankfully not much hail, but a 30 minute deluge that dropped .57". Great way to end the month.

[finnster]

As many of us are in this region, this year Fort Collins will be flirting with recording the driest year in recorded history (which is 7.34"). Currently we sit at 5.97" for the year. It seems we start getting some decent monsoon moisture and then the door gets slammed shut again. Supposedly El Nino conditions are forecast this fall but I'm not holding my breath that it will make any difference in alleviating the drought. One can hope tho....

[mayjawintastawm]

At my house near Centennial Airport we've received 5.05" YTD. DEN is a bit better at 5.65". Record driest year is 7.48" in 2002. I'm guessing we won't quite end up that dry, but it will be close. Good shot at top 10 driest, anyway.

[ValpoVike]

Wow, and I thought that it was dry'ish up here... I am at 9.19" YTD.  Even then, I know that the big snow dump we had in May overwhelmed my Davis' precipitation hopper as the total from that event came in pretty light.  I think perhaps around 10" YTD is more accurate.