Issue Date: Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
Issue Time: 10:10 AM MDT
Summary:
Tuesday was another day with dry conditions and hot temperatures. High temperatures at the lower elevations reached the 90F mark once again with Lamar reaching 100F. The jet sagged southward and promoted some decent surface winds over the Northwest Slope. A Red Flag Warning was issued at 10AM through the evening hours as conditions promoted critical fire weather. Thankfully no new fires were started as crews have their hands full with the Ryan and Silver Creek fires. Some fair weather cumulus popped up in the afternoon hours, which helped provide a little shade form the heat. With very dry low-levels in the atmosphere, there was no rainfall recorded in Colorado yesterday.
Once again, nothing to see on the State Precipitation Map below.
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The map below shows radar-estimated, rainfall gage-adjusted Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (QPE) across Colorado. The map is updated daily during the operational season (May 1 – Sep 30) by 11AM. The following six layers are currently available: 24-hour, 48-hour and 72-hour total precipitation, as well as maximum 1-hour, 2-hour and 6-hour precipitation over the past 24 hour period (to estimate where flash flooding may have occurred). The 24-hour, 48-hour and 72-hour total precipitation contain bias corrections that are not disaggregated into the hourly estimates, so there will likely be some differences. The accumulation ending time is 7AM of the date shown in the bottom right corner. Also shown optionally are fire burn areas (post 2012), which are updated throughout the season to include new burn areas. The home button in the top left corner resets the map to the original zoom.
