{"id":15405,"date":"2021-08-06T09:38:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T15:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=15405"},"modified":"2021-08-07T09:31:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T15:31:43","slug":"spm-08-06-2021-widely-scattered-storms-drought-monitor-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=15405","title":{"rendered":"SPM 08-06-2021: Widely Scattered Storms – Drought Monitor Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue Date: Friday, August 6th, 2021
\nIssue Time: 9:50 AM MDT<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/h3>\n

A much dryer day yesterday with some widely scattered<\/span> afternoon storms on the Southwest Slope, San Juan Mountains, and Front Range Mountains. Precipitation totals were meager compared to what has been seen lately, Trace<\/span>-0.11 inches. Then late evening into the night, storms developed on the Northeast Plains, again with low precipitation totals, less than 0.1 inches. The bigger weather story of the day was the increased some in the air from fires burning across the west, reducing air quality and visibility. <\/p>\n

The latest drought monitor for Colorado was released yesterday (map below), reflecting conditions as of Tuesday, August 3rd. Several weeks of monsoonal moisture have not been enough to completely help Western Colorado’s Drought, but there have been improvements. The total area experiencing D4 “Exceptional Drought” has reduced by over half, especially on the Northwest Slope, and there have been improvements in regions experiencing D1-D3 drought as well. Most of the San Juan Mountains is no longer experiencing any drought conditions, which is a huge improvement from even 3 months ago. Conversely, dryer than normal weather in the Northeast Plains have led to some regions moving into D0 “Abnormally Dry” conditions.
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For rainfall estimates in your area, check out the 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 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: Friday, August 6th, 2021 Issue Time: 9:50 AM MDT Summary: A much dryer day yesterday with some widely scattered<\/span> afternoon storms on the Southwest Slope, San Juan Mountains, and Front Range Mountains. Precipitation totals were meager compared to what has been seen lately, Trace<\/span>-0.11 inches. Then late evening into the night, storms developed […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/15405"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15420,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405\/revisions\/15420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}