Issue Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Issue Time: 9:10 AM MDT
Summary:
Monday was hot and largely dry across much of Colorado thanks to an upper-level ridge moving eastward across the region. The hot and dry weather elevated fire weather conditions for both the Morgan Creek and Muddy slide fires in the Northern and Central Mountains. Smoke from these fires, as well as those in the surrounding western states, left smoke and haze in the air and reduced air quality.
Still, monsoonal moisture helped fuel isolated afternoon storms in the Northwest Slope, Grand Valley, and Southwest Slope. Afternoon showers in Dinosaur resulted in 0.32 inches of accumulation according to a CoCoRaHS observer. Cedaredge, in the Grand Valley, received 0.28 inches. Storms were more widespread in the Southwest Slope, but rainfall totals were more modest, Trace – 0.24 inch observations were scattered across Montezuma, La Plata, and Archuleta counties, which is just under the threshold to show up in the State Precipitation Map below. However, a US Climate Reference Network gauge at Mesa Verde recorded 0.48 inches in a single hour.
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