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<br />- 3- <br /> <br />Miguel/Animas/Dolores 105%. Gunnison 96%. Colorado 91%. <br />Southwest basins arc in the highest category and are 29% beuer than last year. <br />. In the last 12 months we saw preuy good storage recovery that matches levels going back about <br />eight years. It has taken 2.5 years to recover reservoir storage from the recent drought. <br /> <br /> <br />~ational Weather Senicc Shorl Term Forecast (Trcstc <br />!luse ~ws - Boulder) <br />. We have some disturbances moving through progressing <br />through Friday <br />. For the grarhic the upper level now is the yellow lines <br />and moisture is in bluc for Friday PM. <br />. For the next couple of days we will also have some cold <br />fronts moving through and will see cooler temps. <br />. There is a stronger than nonnal polar jet that will keep <br />bringing down disturbances <br />. We also have broad trough developing over the state but <br />we \\ ill dry out on Saturday and see a little warmer temperatures. <br />. Sunday thunderstorms will mOH back into our area and <br />Monday it \,,'ill dry out then stay dry for a while. <br />. We could sce some snows during the o\'crnight lows <br />with a better chance of this in northeastern part of the <br />state <br />. We have s()uthwesterly 110\\ over us at the surfacc and <br />upslope Ilow and some more. <br /> <br /> <br />SUllllller Pn'cil)ilation Oullook - .John IIcnz, IInR <br />Eneinccrim! <br />. John lIenz has been pan of the l100d task force since <br />1994. <br />. Ilenz showed the following radar image ofconvcrging areas of moisture that hit the Dcnvcr <br />Metro area at.t pm Jast Friday. It went from nothing to a rate of about 1.25 inches per hour. <br />. lIenl. commended the development of the CoCoRas rain gage network and all of the data that <br />was reJXlrtcd from the recent storms. http://v.\\w.cocorahs.orc./ <br />. Ilenz showed pictures o!"lkn\'cr ~lctro area ll00ding from last wcek's storms like the one to the <br />right. <br />. An f lOR analysis of summers from 1 995-200.t shows that <br />tcmperatures have becn a couplc of degrecs warmcr than <br />avcragc in July and August and precipitation has been a <br />little bit below average. <br />. A bar graph of the number of days abO\ e 90 degrees from <br />1995 -200.t is 35 for the \lrhole period. lIowe\'er since <br />2000 the trend is less 90 degree days each ycar. In 20Q..l. <br />there \\as 20 days above 90 degrees but it fclt holtcr last <br />year. <br /> <br /> <br />Flood PrOlt'rnOn. Wdln" P'ro)n:1 P1..Innmgdl\d FuwllCt'. Slr~dm md l..Jl~ ProtectIOn <br />Wdl~ISupplvProrertlOfl.COllSn"dtlonP1dnmng <br />