A peaceful start to the day at Village Lake…photo taken around 11:30am this morning by Mark Langford.
Monday – 15 August 2022 – 1:30pm update.
The past…
The high on Sunday at Stevens Field was 84 and the low this morning was 50. Our humidity bottomed out at 19% and the airport recorded a 35mph wind gust as the storms rolled in around sunset. Rainfall totals looked like they were going to be zero for most of us yesterday, but thanks to a storm complex that moved through around sunset, a few of us north of Hatcher Lake reported over a tenth of an inch.
Forecast discussion…
All the pieces are coming together for a very active weather week! The event starts later this afternoon, then ramps up on Tuesday and Wednesday. Thanks to a trough in Utah tracking east and the ridge nudging SE, the monsoon plume is moving into a perfect position to give us copious quantities of rainfall over the several days. As we saw last night, storms will continue to move in even after the sun sets and could continue into the night. While there will be some minor changes in our upper atmosphere over the next several days, we will find ourselves in the middle of the tropical conveyor belt through at least the weekend. Most of the models are now predicting 2-3 inches of rain over the next 7 days with much of that occurring over the next 3 days.
For all of you visiting our beautiful area, please be careful when you go out on hikes, especially in the afternoons. Totally clear mornings can quickly turn into stormy afternoons with 20-30 degree drop in temps, heavy rain, hail, lightning and gusty winds over 40mph! Make sure you pack rain gear because being wet when temps drop to the 50’s can be more than uncomfortable…it can be dangerous.
My forecast…
Pagosa Springs historical data for Aug 15th
| Average High | Record High / Year | Average Low | Record Low / Year |
| 80 | 90/ 1962 | 44 | 32 / 1950 |
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-Mark Langford
