A day between storms

Well, the weekend was interesting, don't you think? For the storm outlook, see my 4/3 post, "the wind and warm before the storm", and for storm totals, the one from 4/4, "storm totals" (obviously, I'm not great at clever headlines).

The power of the storm hit where we were expecting it...northern El Paso county, Teller county and the southern foothills, while the rest of us got mostly a blast of wind and cold.

Sunday's weaker disturbance still produced an inch or 2 in the Broadmoor area, 3.3" in Beulah and 2.8" in Rye.

Now, let's look to the future;

For the moment, high pressure is building overhead in Colorado, that will give us chinook winds (the ones that move down the east slopes of the mountains, warming and drying as they go) for Tuesday, even stronger winds (and higher fire danger) on Wednesday, then another chance for rain and snow as cold air races in from the north and moist air arrives from the Pacific.

After that, you'll want a brief break, and you'll get it on Friday, before the next round begins to move in on Saturday, with the effects lingering through Sunday.

By the way, after that blast of wind on Saturday, to find the windiest cities in the United States. #1 on the list is Dodge City, Kansas, followed by Amarillo, Texas...care to guess where some of the rest are? (here's a hint, Chicago isn't one of them)...I'll include them in my next few posts.