Issue Date: Saturday, September 22nd, 2018
Issue Time: 09:45 AM MDT
Summary:
The vast majority of the state was warm and dry yesterday. With high pressure continuing to build from the west, hot, low-humidity air from the southwest moved into the western parts of Colorado. Partly sunny and occasionally breezy weather was the story across the western slopes and the mountains through the afternoon. A couple of high-elevation storms were able to pop up in Saguache County along the Continental Divide, where the dry, warm air mass hadn’t fully worked in. For the eastern areas of the Raton Ridge and the very southern regions of the Southeast Plains, it was sunny skies with a few high clouds. No local storm reports were recorded, and a few CoCoRaHS stations in Huerfano and Las Animas counties reported less than a tenth of an inch of rainfall. As expected, no flooding was recorded on Friday.
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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.
