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A longer loop with forecast on the end makes clear these cutoff features will soon be gone. Warning, pretty large file sizes. .mov 80MB file http://weather.rsmas.miami.edu:8080/repository/metadata/view/Boulder%20flood%20hourly%20radar%20w%20forecast.mov?element=1&entryid=a1e91ace-8fae-4386-b7ce-cf27af5ed426&metadata.id=bc7f272e-e6ef-4f77-b233-4750f2c0fe2d animated .gif 30MB file http://weather.rsmas.miami.edu:8080/repository/metadata/view/Boulder%20flood%20hourly%20radar%20w%20forecast.gif?element=1&entryid=ca7c8f05-fa17-4b42-941f-826a0bcf93c5&metadata.id=3913f060-b575-4483-bcd9-365db6c33eed&thumbnail=false ------------------- (the IDV bundles that makes those displays are at) http://weather.rsmas.miami.edu:8080/repository/entry/show/RSMAS-UM+Repository+for+atm-ocean+data+and+its+science/The+Mapes+IDV+collection/IDV+Bundles.+Display+sets%2C+and+dataset-attaching+shortcuts/Bundles+that+read+remote+datasets/Boulderflood_synoptics?entryid=9a2500f1-2ab3-4149-9b37-ef089853ca65<http://weather.rsmas.miami.edu:8080/repository/entry/show/RSMAS-UM+Repository+for+atm-ocean+data+and+its+science/The+Mapes+IDV+collection/IDV+Bundles.+Display+sets,+and+dataset-attaching+shortcuts/Bundles+that+read+remote+datasets/Boulderflood_synoptics?entryid=9a2500f1-2ab3-4149-9b37-ef089853ca65> and http://weather.rsmas.miami.edu:8080/repository/entry/show/RSMAS-UM+Repository+for+atm-ocean+data+and+its+science/The+Mapes+IDV+collection/IDV+Bundles.+Display+sets%2C+and+dataset-attaching+shortcuts/Bundles+that+read+remote+datasets/Boulder+flood+hourly+radar+w+forecast?entryid=ca7c8f05-fa17-4b42-941f-826a0bcf93c5<http://weather.rsmas.miami.edu:8080/repository/entry/show/RSMAS-UM+Repository+for+atm-ocean+data+and+its+science/The+Mapes+IDV+collection/IDV+Bundles.+Display+sets,+and+dataset-attaching+shortcuts/Bundles+that+read+remote+datasets/Boulder+flood+hourly+radar+w+forecast?entryid=ca7c8f05-fa17-4b42-941f-826a0bcf93c5> On Sep 14, 2013, at 11:43 PM, Brian Mapes wrote: Here is a 6-day loop of GFS analyses of Z500, column water vapor, and satellite clouds on top. There seems to be an interlocking relationship among a set of almost-stationary cyclones and anticyclones over the western US. It's not clear that the trouble is over, actually... http://weather.rsmas.miami.edu:8080/repository/metadata/view/Boulderflood_synoptics.gif?element=1&entryid=9a2500f1-2ab3-4149-9b37-ef089853ca65&metadata.id=630969ee-5e63-45f2-9851-40a30f1b2cb2&thumbnail=false Brian Mapes On Sep 14, 2013, at 5:26 AM, Jerry Meehl wrote: Some of you have been to Boulder, so I thought I'd show you what four days of tropical moisture does to a semi-arid location. We're high and dry at our house, but a lot of Boulder is a mess, and we've got friends with water in their basements, and one friend who had to evacuate out of her house in Lyons, the town that's still cut off. We've measured a storm total at our house over the four days of rain of 13.3". I thought my gauge was in error, but the NCAR gauge on the Mesa measured 12.7" over the same period and there's been some spatial variation in rain totals so I don't think our gauge is that far off. Recall that average September rainfall in Boulder is only 1.63 inches, and Boulder's total annual average precipitation is 20.5". NCAR closed yesterday and today. CU even cancelled their home football game tomorrow, so you know it's serious! Below is the link below to our flood aftermath photos taken today, Friday, 9/13. Most of the water has receded, though Boulder Creek is still out of its banks in places. Some of the locations are noted below in case you're familiar with any of Boulder. I basically started near Table Mesa Drive with the aftermath of Bear Creek out of its banks yesterday afternoon turning the whole street on each side of the creek into a rushing river (Table Mesa Drive is the street that goes up to NCAR). Then down to the Harvest House Hotel near 28th St., and working west trying to follow Boulder Creek. I ended up in the Eben Fine Park area at the mouth of Boulder Canyon (where they have closed the road up the Canyon due to a rock slide). The structure damage is from a flash flood that came down the north side of Flagstaff Mt right above the park, and as it washed down it not only destroyed several structures, but closed Arapahoe with tons of rocks and mud, and wiped out the west end of Eben Fine park before it dumped into Boulder Creek. Much of downtown Boulder had water running through it last night (for those of you familiar with the town, roughly east of 6th St. and south of Walnut). locations roughly in sequence in the photos: Bear Creek and Table Mesa Drive (main road to NCAR closed) Millennium Harvest House Hotel CU Married Student Housing CU practice field parking lot Boulder High playing fields Arapahoe and Broadway bike paths Canyon Street Eben Fine Park 100 Arapahoe Structure Damage Broadway and Canyon https://plus.google.com/photos/116948897382649602992/albums/5923225932312429041?authkey=CInk2arCs5SCOA Jerry ********************************************* Brian Mapes, Professor Meteorology and Physical Oceanography RSMAS, University of Miami 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami, FL 33149-1098 phone: (305) 421-4275 fax: (305) 421-4696 email: mapes@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:mapes@xxxxxxxxx> Web: http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/users/bmapes/ ********************************************** Brian Mapes bmapes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:bmapes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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