On the one hand, there was plenty of rain in the Denver area Tuesday, and there will be plenty more to come Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and possibly beyond.
On the other hand …
“It’s usually so dry and dusty here,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Robert Koopmeiners. “This weather is beautiful — don’t you sleep better when it’s like this?”
According to the Boulder-based service, May is Colorado’s wettest month, on average receiving about 2½ inches of precipitation.
But with the Colorado Rockies baseball team suffering a second consecutive rainout and areas across the state dealing with flood advisories and the like, it seems like that much has fallen just during the past 24 hours.
Colorado Springs, for example, has reported that it has received 1.83 inches of rain. Koopmeiners said more than an inch fell in the area of East Second Avenue and East Speer Boulevard.
The cause of the continued moisture is what officials called “an upper-level” storm. While the system actually had moved over the eastern part of the state by Tuesday evening, it still remained strong enough to leave its mark.
In fact, said Koopmeiners, there was a 40 percent chance of precipitation for late Wednesday afternoon, increasing to 50 percent Thursday.
At that point, he added, the system would leave the area — only to be replaced by a new one that would increase the chance of rain Friday to somewhere around 60 to 70 percent.
“It’s May. It’s Colorado,” Koopmeiners said.
Anthony Cotton: 303-954-1292, acotton@denverpost.com or anthonycottondp
