{"id":2632,"date":"2016-06-04T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2017-04-24T17:13:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T23:13:45","slug":"stp-06-04-2016-hot-west-of-the-divide-warm-to-the-east-but-dry-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=2632","title":{"rendered":"STP 06-04-2016: Hot West of the Divide, Warm To The East, But Dry Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Issue Date: Saturday, June 4th, 2016<br>\nIssue Time: 8:55AM MDT<\/p>\n<p>The strong western U.S. ridge continued to stay put and perhaps even strengthened a bit on Friday. Locations directly under its grasp baked: Phoenix, AZ saw a high temperature of 113 F, which beat out 2006&rsquo;s 112 F for a daily record. Even parts of western Colorado, although on the ridge&rsquo;s eastern periphery saw cloudless skies and very warm temperatures. Cortez and Grand Junction both had high temperatures near 90 F.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions were cooler east of the <span class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Divide&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;&amp;lt;!-- wp:paragraph {&amp;quot;textColor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;white&amp;quot;} --&amp;gt;\n&amp;lt;p class=&amp;quot;has-white-color has-text-color&amp;quot;&amp;gt;the dividing line that separates the watersheds of the western and eastern United States; rivers west of the divide empty into the Pacific Ocean, while rivers east of the divide empty into the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico&amp;lt;\/p&amp;gt;\n&amp;lt;!-- \/wp:paragraph --&amp;gt;&lt;\/div&gt;\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'>Divide<\/span>, with high temperatures right around average, or in the 80-88 F range depending on location. A very weak thunderstorm managed to pop up in the Northeast Plains during the mid-afternoon and hobbled southeastward. Perhaps a tenth of an inch of rainfall fell in lucky areas, but most everyone else received only a great storm panoramic and some <span class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;virga&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Wisps or streaks of precipitation falling out of a cloud that evaporate before reaching the surface. Virga can cause strong, but short-lived, localized winds (dry microburst).&lt;\/div&gt;\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'>virga<\/span> (rainfall that you can see falling but does not reach the ground).<\/p>\n<p>Flooding was not observed on Friday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604_STPImage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604_STPImage.png\" alt=\"20160604_STPImage\" width=\"887\" height=\"496\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2644\"\/><\/a><br><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-136\" src=\"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/stormtotalprecip_legend.png\" alt=\"Storm Total Precip Legend\" width=\"470\" height=\"32\"\/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue Date: Saturday, June 4th, 2016 Issue Time: 8:55AM MDT The strong western U.S. ridge continued to stay put and perhaps even strengthened a bit on Friday. Locations directly under its grasp baked: Phoenix, AZ saw a high temperature of 113 F, which beat out 2006&rsquo;s 112 F for a daily record. Even parts of [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"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\/2632"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4178,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}