Issue Date: Saturday, May 11th, 2019
Issue Time: 9:10 AM MDT
Summary:
A couple of weak disturbances traversed portions of western and southern Colorado in the previous 24 hours, leading to scattered rain and snow showers for those areas. Most of the precipitation fell over the High Country, with a few showers impacting adjacent lower elevations, mainly over the Grand Valley and Southwest Slope regions. Nearly all of the activity came to an end by 9 PM, but a few showers lingered over the Southeast Mountains into this morning.
According to CoCoRaHS observers, these locations were the “big winners” of precipitation yesterday:
Alamosa County: 1.06 inches
Ouray County: 0.92 inches
La Plata County: 0.58 inches, 0.41 inches
Rio Grande County: 0.53 inches
Conejos County: 0.33 inches
Pueblo County: 0.33 inches
Montezuma County: 0.32 inches
Dolores County: 0.26 inches
No flash flooding was reported yesterday. For a look at precipitation estimates in your area, please see 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 vulnerable fire burn areas (post 2012), which are updated throughout the season to include new, vulnerable burn areas. The home button in the top left corner resets the map to the original zoom.
