Mountain West Discussion

[Chinook]

some stormy conditions (again)

 

 

[Chinook]

hail/street floods reported in Parker

[mayjawintastawm]

Just got 0.42" rain in 16 minutes with rates peaking at 2.5"/hr. All done though. Parts of Parker got hammered. Saw some broad rotation in the cloud base on my way home from work in Aurora.

EDIT: round 2 developing from outflow. Quite an interesting afternoon, all of a sudden!

[smokeybandit]

0.4" so far, still more coming though we'll see if it stays far enough south to get me to a half inch.

That puts me over 3" for the month. Best month in a long time

[frontranger8]

Just got nailed by a storm, almost half an inch. Up to 2.6" on the month.

[frontranger8]

On 7/27/2026 at 10:21 PM, frontranger8 said:

That being said, there have been many times where August has been much wetter than July (2022 is the only real recent example, but quite a few further back). We are badly due for a very wet August for the region...the last one was 2008.

I am a prophet.

[Chinook]

what are these wet things coming from the sky?

[GaWx]

 Early afternoon in Vail I saw the strongest thunderstorm of my CO trip. It got so dark just before the start! I considered it to be severe with very strong winds at the start bringing down cold air into the 50s. The winds must have been 50++, which the aspens handled well. Soon after good drought helping heavy rain fell followed by lots of pea sized hail that lasted ~5 minutes.