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Issue Date: 5\/22\/2016
\nIssue Time: 9:35 AM<\/p>\n

NO FLOOD THREAT IS FORECAST.<\/em><\/p>\n

The upper-level low over the Pacific Northwest will shift slowly to the northeast throughout the period, ushering in drier and slightly cooler air into Colorado (see water vapor image below). With the decrease in moisture and temperatures, the atmosphere will remain mostly stable<\/span> today, and the main weather story today will be the mostly sunny skies. With that said, there will be two main areas that will hold onto isolated<\/span> shower\/thunderstorm chances.<\/p>\n

The first area will be over the Central Mountains, Northern Mountains and, to some extent, the Front Range. A narrow band of lifting\/cooling aloft will rotate over these regions during the afternoon and evening, allowing for a couple isolated<\/span> showers\/weak thunderstorms to develop. Due to drier air in the lower levels, activity will remain high based, producing more gusty winds than rain (if any, at all). Northern extents of the Urban Corridor may see one or two of these showers\/storms move overhead, but the activity will diminish quickly due to the unsupportive environment.<\/p>\n

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The second area will be along the dryline<\/span> that will lay very near the eastern CO border (current location denoted on the water vapor image above). The best moisture and instability will reside just east of the state in Kansas\/Nebraska, making today’s threat conditional. If the dryline<\/span> can remain over far eastern Colorado, a couple isolated<\/span> strong-to-severe thunderstorms<\/span> will develop over the far eastern counties. If the dryline<\/span> pushes east into western KS, then the threat for thunderstorms will be basically eliminated. Either way, any thunderstorm activity will not produce rain rates capable of flash flooding<\/span>, so no flood threat is warranted.<\/p>\n

Today’s Flood Threat Map<\/strong><\/h3>\n

For more information on today’s flood threat, see the map below (hover over threat areas for more details). For Zone-Specific forecasts, jump below the map.<\/p>\n