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<br />repeatedly, especially this bus tour, the Governor also did sign HB 1152 which will expand and
<br />rehabilitate several reservoirs across the state, in addition to a $15 million loan for a new reservoir
<br />near Parker called the Reuter-Hess, which I believe is about 22,000 AF, or 32,000 AF.
<br />Somewhere between 22 and 32 thousand AF, which will help deal with the booming population
<br />down there in Parker. And then, fmally, I also did just learn that FEMA has accepted the
<br />Governor's request for fire suppression assistance on the Schoonover fire, which mean, he made
<br />the request about 6 o'clock last night, so 75% of all the costs from that fire will be covered by
<br />FEMA, since 6 0' clock last night, which is good, because the fire grew a lot. In fact, I have to get
<br />back to the office and help out with that fire. Thanks.
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<br />Brad - OK, a little bit behind schedule, I hope you can stay, we're going to be here a little after 3
<br />o'clock, it looks like, so we'll just keep moving. Short-term Forecast?
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<br />Bob Glancy - I'm Bob Glancy, meteorologist at the Weather Service, and this is a rare audience I
<br />can come to on the 23rd of May and say there's going to be snow. And they're going to say "yay."
<br />But I brought my handy weather radio and the winter storm watch for the foothills has been
<br />upgraded to a warning, and we have a upper low that's tracking across central and northern
<br />Colorado and a lot of things are coming together, including increasing upslope moisture, upper
<br />dynamics to give us snow for about a 9 to 12-hour period tonight, it looks like the best snow will
<br />occur in our zone 35, which is our northern foothills. So that would be the foothills of Larimer
<br />and Boulder Counties, and we're talking about 5 - 10 inches of snow up in that area, precipitable
<br />water probably over an inch. Because we also have instability and there will be some convective
<br />activity as well. Further south, south ofI-70, with the southeast upslope flow, it's not going to be
<br />quite as good as far as snow. So we're not going to put that 5-10 inches on the fire, for example.
<br />They should be getting some precipitation but I think Klaus; house will be better than the fire.
<br />Now out on the plains, it looks like the best precipitation should be from Boulder northeastward,
<br />so were looking at probably in the order of a Y, inch to an inch of rain if that low tracks out, and
<br />back into the Denver area, a little bit less, but probably one of the more generous rainfalls we've
<br />had in a while. I wouldn't be surprised to see a quarter to three-quarters of an inch of rain, as that
<br />comes out. So, this is a pretty good system, but again, we are in May, and May's typically one of
<br />our wetter months in Colorado, and after this, though, we get into basically the showers tomorrow
<br />morning and then starting to dry out and then going into northwest flow and dryer. Saturday
<br />doesn't look like we'll see any precipitation. But what's kind of interesting next week is how
<br />things develop, and if you look at the long-term models, it looks like a ridge develops, and it looks
<br />almost like a July pattern. A ridge over western US and moisture underneath the ridge, so
<br />percolating thunderstorms each day. The question right now is how much moisture under the
<br />ridge, how many thunderstorms, but from the fire standpoint, with a ridge overhead, winds will be
<br />quite light. So we shouldn't see over the next week this horrendous wind that we've had over the
<br />last few days. So temperatures rebounding up into the 70's and 80's out on the plains, and a
<br />chance of daily thunderstorms from about Sunday on out through next week. So I think when I
<br />look at things, and Klaus will talk about the long-term, but to me, it looks like we turned a corner a
<br />little bit from the really, really dry nasty conditions to a better chance of daily showers and
<br />thunderstorms, but again, it's May, going into June. And this is what we normally see is daily
<br />rounds of thunderstorms from late May right through the summer. Are there any questions? It's a
<br />pretty short, sweet thing, but I was going to turn over to Klaus for the long-term.
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