Nice to have football back on Sundays, just another reminder Fall is around the corner as the Aspen leaves are beginning to turn.
Pretty nice day overall today, just some isolated showers mostly over the high country. Monsoon moisture is still poised to make a big return the next 48 hours, as moisture from former hurricane Norbert combines with an upper trough from the west coast. Precip currently across AZ, SoCal and southern NV will spread east and north Monday into UT and western CO with some heavy showers and thunderstorms possible with flash flood concerns. Precip will spread east to about the I-25 corridor by Monday evening and persist overnight. Heaviest precip still looks to remain along and west of the Divide with 1-3 inches possible Monday into Tuesday night, especially across southwest CO where locally higher amounts will be possible. Precip will continue on Tuesday into Tuesday evening. Once again, precip not expected to extend too much east of the I-25 corridor on Tuesday. Foothills likely to see from 0.5 to 1.5 inches of precip from this event, so just more soaking of our already saturated soil, but not too much concern for flooding at this time.
As this precip will bring September rainfall above an inch, fire concerns remain very low, and it appears we will finish our fire season without many fires statewide. Even nationwide, this has been a very good fire season, with only about half of the average acreage consumed by fire this year.
By Wednesday, conditions expected to dry out statewide as a cold front is expected to clip eastern CO Wednesday night and usher in cooler temps and perhaps some stratus to the plains by Thursday morning, similar to this past Saturday.
Warmer and mostly dry conditions expected to persist into the weekend, with the usual isolated afternoon and evening shower and thunderstorm chances, mostly over the high country.
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"Climatology is what you expect, Weather is what you get".
"It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong".
Too bad future generations aren't here to see all the great things we are spending their $$ on!!
