{"id":13155,"date":"2020-09-14T09:39:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T15:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=13155"},"modified":"2020-09-15T07:46:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T13:46:25","slug":"spm-09-14-2020-continued-dry-with-a-few-mountain-sprinkles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=13155","title":{"rendered":"SPM 09-14-2020: Continued Dry with A Few Mountain Sprinkles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue Date: Monday, September 14th, 2020
\nIssue Time: 09:40AM MDT<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/h3>\n

Yesterday was another dry and warm day with some clouds forming over most mountaintops yet again. These clouds generally did not produce rainfall, except for a few showers over the San Juan Mountains where the only reported precipitation of 0.02 inches was reported by a CoCoRaHS<\/span> observer near Ouray. A trace<\/span> of rainfall was reported near Buena Vista in the Central Mountains as well.<\/p>\n

Since precipitation looks to not be in the forecast for awhile, let’s take a look back at the precipitation received so far for the month of September. The image below shows total precipitation received so far in September 2020 (left) as well as how that compares to climatological normal (right). As you can see, much of the state has received over 1 inch of precipitation so far this month, with totals over 2 inches along the southern and central mountains. This beneficial precipitation is well above 100% of average for the month across these locations. However, some areas of Colorado did not benefit as much from the recent storm last week. The Northwest Slope received well under an inch of precipitation so far this month, so they are between 10% and 70% of normal for September so far. Hopefully some precipitation will be able to make up this deficit later this month. Note that these precipitation analyses are preliminary and will change as the month goes on. Keep an eye on the analyses at the PRISM Climate Group’s awesome website:
https:\/\/prism.oregonstate.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ongoing Colorado wildfires update (as of 9:30AM from InciWeb):<\/strong>
\nMiddle Fork in the Park Range: 4,540 acres; 0% contained (new addition, started Sep. 6th)
\nCameron Peak in the Medicine Bow Mountains: 102,596 acres; 4% contained
\nWilliams Fork in the Arapaho National Forest: 12,157 acres; 10% contained
\nGrizzly Creek in Glenwood Canyon: 32,431 acres; 91% contained
\nPine Gulch north of Grand Junction: 139,007 acres; 95% contained<\/p>\n

For rainfall estimates in your area over the last 24, 48, and 72 hours, check out our State Precipitation Map below.<\/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: Monday, September 14th, 2020 Issue Time: 09:40AM MDT Summary: Yesterday was another dry and warm day with some clouds forming over most mountaintops yet again. These clouds generally did not produce rainfall, except for a few showers over the San Juan Mountains where the only reported precipitation of 0.02 inches was reported by […]<\/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\/13155"}],"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=13155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13169,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions\/13169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}