{"id":2958,"date":"2016-07-03T10:18:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T16:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coloradofloodthreat.com\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2016-07-03T10:18:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T16:18:50","slug":"ftb-2016-07-03-more-sunshine-fewer-storms-but-heavy-downpours-still-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-coftb.dewberryanalytics.com\/?p=2958","title":{"rendered":"FTB 07-03-2016: More Sunshine, Fewer Storms, But Heavy Downpours Still Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue Date: Sunday, July 3rd, 2016
\nIssue Time: 10:15AM MDT<\/p>\n

— LOW<\/strong> flood threat for Palmer Ridge, Southeast Plains, Raton Ridge, Southeast Mountains and Grand Valley<\/em><\/p>\n

A rather complicated weather map is found this morning across the western United States, as shown in the water vapor image below. The large-scale features include a low-pressure center across British Columbia and a distinct subtropical jet stream<\/span> racing across the southern Rocky Mountain states. The latter feature will affect Colorado today as it drags a disturbance over the western part of the state eastward. Notable mid-level cooling was observed over the last 24-hours statewide and some more cooling today will help to create afternoon instability. Moisture continues to be abundant this morning with Precipitable Water<\/span> (PW<\/span>) values of about 1 inch, with pockets of higher values, across the state. However, this will be countered by significant drying being advected in from the north. For example, the Riverton (WY) sounding’s PW<\/span> dropped from 0.74 to 0.43 inches over the past 24 hours. This air will affect northeast CO today, eliminating the heavy rainfall threat in that region.<\/p>\n

Overall, expect a quick development of high elevation shower and thunderstorm activity to spread quickly into the lower elevations. Heavy rainfall will be possible across parts of the western slope and southeast parts of the state. Faster storm motion compared to past days implies that only a Low flood threat is warranted today for isolated<\/span> flash flooding<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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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, scroll below the map.<\/p>\n