{"id":13084,"date":"2020-09-08T10:59:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T16:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=13084"},"modified":"2020-09-09T07:42:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:42:40","slug":"spm-09-08-2020-cold-air-and-beneficial-precipitation-moved-in-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=13084","title":{"rendered":"SPM 09-08-2020: Cold Air and Beneficial Precipitation Moved In Overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue Date: Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
\nIssue Time: 11:00AM MDT<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/h3>\n

Yesterday started out hot, dry, and smoky but ended chilly and wet. Abundant smoke across the state yesterday kept high temperatures down a few degrees, with Denver and Grand Junction only getting into the low 90Fs. However, locations in the Southeast Plains were still able to get up to the 100F mark where there was less smoke coverage. This quickly changed as a cold front came barreling through the plains of eastern Colorado earlier than expected, passing through Denver around 5PM. A 56 mph wind gust was recorded in Pueblo, CO as the front moved through around 9PM. A couple more surges of colder air moved into the plains overnight, which created upslope flow and allowed rain (plains) and snow (foothills\/mountains) to fall. The highest precipitation totals up to 1.0 inch this morning are over the Northeast Plains, where some weak convection<\/span> was able to generate some heavier rainfall. No flooding was reported with this heavier rain. Elsewhere, totals were generally 0.5 inches or less. Snowfall up to 2.5 inches was reported in the foothills of the Front Range, with 0.4 to 0.5 inches of liquid-equivalent precipitation (a 5:1 snow:liquid ratio). This precipitation and snowcover will hopefully suppress the wildfires, especially the Cameron Peak fire, which has exploded over the holiday weekend (see details below).<\/p>\n

Colorado large wildfire update (as of 11:00AM on InciWeb):<\/strong>
\nCameron Peak in the Medicine Bow Mountains: 102,596 acres; 4% contained (explosive increase in size)
\nWilliams Fork in the Arapaho National Forest: 12,157 acres; 10% contained
\nGrizzly Creek in Glenwood Canyon: 32,464 acres; 91% contained (increased containment)
\nPine Gulch north of Grand Junction: 139,007 acres; 87% contained<\/p>\n

For precipitation estimates in your area over the last 24 hours, check out our State Precipitation Map below. Note that some of this precipitation likely fell as snow at higher elevation locations.<\/p>\n

Click Here For Map Overview<\/h4>
\nThe map below shows radar-estimated, rainfall gage-adjusted Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (QPE<\/span>) 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<\/span> 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.
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Issue Date: Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 Issue Time: 11:00AM MDT Summary: Yesterday started out hot, dry, and smoky but ended chilly and wet. Abundant smoke across the state yesterday kept high temperatures down a few degrees, with Denver and Grand Junction only getting into the low 90Fs. However, locations in the Southeast Plains were still […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13090,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions\/13090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}