Issue Date: Thursday, July 6, 2017
Issue Time: 10:00AM MDT
Summary:
The subsidence associated with the High pressure system limited rainfall to higher terrain yesterday. The highest CoCoRaHS station reported 0.23 inches in Alamosa County. The SNOTEL site at Tower (outside Steamboat Springs) reported 0.5 inches of rain. Radar estimates were 0.6 inches in the small storm cores. There were no storm reports and no flooding occurred yesterday.
Looking back over the month of June, Colorado was warmer than climatology over the majority of the state. West of the Continental Divide, it was up to 6F warmer with Saguache County 6-7F warmer than climatology. As for precipitation, except for the eastern border with KS/NE, the bulk of the state was below normal. The Front Range, Urban Corridor and Northeast Plains were up to 3 inches below normal. A third figure was added to show the percent of normal precipitation. This figure will better put in perspective the anomalies of the total precipitation.
Flooding was not reported on Wednesday. Please see the STP map below for a look at precipitation totals from the last 24 hours.
