Issue Date: Saturday, June 4th, 2016
Issue Time: 8:55AM MDT
The strong western U.S. ridge continued to stay put and perhaps even strengthened a bit on Friday. Locations directly under its grasp baked: Phoenix, AZ saw a high temperature of 113 F, which beat out 2006’s 112 F for a daily record. Even parts of western Colorado, although on the ridge’s eastern periphery saw cloudless skies and very warm temperatures. Cortez and Grand Junction both had high temperatures near 90 F.
Conditions were cooler east of the Divide, with high temperatures right around average, or in the 80-88 F range depending on location. A very weak thunderstorm managed to pop up in the Northeast Plains during the mid-afternoon and hobbled southeastward. Perhaps a tenth of an inch of rainfall fell in lucky areas, but most everyone else received only a great storm panoramic and some virga (rainfall that you can see falling but does not reach the ground).
Flooding was not observed on Friday.
