Southwest/ colorado monsoon

[PTPatrick]

This is shaping up to be one of the wettest "monsoons" over seen in Denver. Last week rain cranked up in the afternoon on Tuesday and it's been cranking up every day since, it actually feels humid here. Even in the afternoon. It's almost eerie like I've moved 1000 miles east. It's nice thou that it cools us off in the evenings quickly. The biggest story though would be thte heavy rain events that have gone over central Denver. Last Thursday parts of downtown saw near 3 inches of rain in around an hour, right at rush hour. I've seen flash floods here but this was widespread and ridiculous. Cars were stalled all over town, buildings flooded, it was a mess. We've had rain every day since. Then last night just when thinks are normally calming down around 900, possibly one the worst lightening storms I've witness moved off the foothills...steady lightening for almost a half hour. And it dropped 2 inches in 30 minutes here, causing flash flooding again! Downtown is probably approaching 6 inches just from the past week...DIA our airport though is only up to 2.1... lol. Our annual average is around 16 inches, the airport is up to 12 total for the year...so despite our 2nd least snowy winter ever, we at least downtown have already had a years with of moisture. Most of that fallen since March. In short, it's just kind of crazy, and this with the southeast and Texas baking under drought. We were there just a month ago though!

[PTPatrick]

I might add that about 2 days before the rains came, the nws put up a power point on thier website saying how this years monsoon would be drier and shorter than normal. And it's still up on the website, despite the continued torrential rains.