Looks like it may have arrived in southern Utah. Thunderstorms and rain this afternoon. Hopefully we see enough precipitation in it to offset the lightening caused wildfire starts.
About 2:30pm Thursday in Midvale it was a downpour! .18" of rain in 20 minutes. Total for the storm was .23" Sure was great to be out in it and the smell of dry vegetation getting wet was a welcome.
Now the question is can we keep getting these storms intermittently throughout the monsoon season? Finally getting some storm again was great, but if we go right back to triple digit temps and dry days again for weeks on end then it was just a pointless tease that won't have even mattered.
The long term will definitely be the goal but it lifted my spirits nonetheless. I know Cedar has multiple days of forecasted storm potentials ahead. I'll take it.
That rain storm, and 10 more like it won’t pull us out of the drought. But even if another storm doesn’t come soon, it wasn’t worthless. It’s certainly better to have one nice storm then no storms at all.
We were supposed to jump right back up to 100s tomorrow, but weather looks to be changing and it will be cooler. I’ll take it!
I'm personally not going to believe it till I SEE and SMELL the rain. My grandson and I are going to head up to the cabin this afternoon. I love being up there when it's raining. He wants to go up and shoot the Miner's Peak Archery Range. ( We have a 5 position range we've set up.).
We'll shoot bows till it starts raining and then enjoy the rain.
Hope we can get back out........
I just got back from going towards our cabin. It had rained and hailed hard on Cedar mountain. They road got too muddy and we had to turn and come back. Would like to have seen how much in my rain gauge. Was perfect timing for a storm. Will get the grass and flowers a good jump start.
USGS often releases an event map after flooding like Zion experienced. I'll be curious to see what drainage it hit hardest but the videos I saw showed the Virgin flooding right by established park camps.
Such a relief to sit through a two hour rain storm on a guard station porch. Just gorgeous to see and I didn't realize how much I missed the monsoon. The smell alone was phenomenal.
The Dutton is dry but the new rain should help. When you compare the enclosures to the rest of the range though you see how bad our forage will be this year 😥
Just a heads up for any of you that might be heading to Colorado and points east, our monsoons are wrecking havoc in Glenwood Canyon where the Grizzly Creek fire was last year. So far in the last week the canyon and I-70 have been closed around 5 times due to mudslides covering both lanes of I-70. Right now if there is even a warning of a flash flood they will shut down I-70 until the warning is back to just a watch.
When I came home last Thursday I got through the canyon early and then it was shut down both directions at 330 pm.
If you get caught on the freeway when they shut it down the deter is from Rifle up to Craig and then HWY 40 It can add a considerable amount of time. It doesn't help that there are road closures on HWY 50 between Grand Junction and Montrose.
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