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Some impressive 72hr rain totals already (and we have 3 more active weather days coming up)

08/13/26 8:45am: 72hr and 24hr rain reports below. Awesome to see the rain stacking up in spots over the last 3-days especially over parts of the north-central mountains and eastern plains! There was some heavy rain in spots yesterday and last night.

Thought it would be good to look at 3-day totals now, and then 3-day total by Saturday, so we can see the breadth of the 6-day event.

First image below shows 72hr totals from MRMS.

Part of the north-centra mountains near Eagle, Summit and Grand counties have picked up 0.50" to 1.25" of rain in the last 3-days

Parts of southern CO / San Juans have also picked up 0.50" to 1.50" of rain in spots.

Part of the northeast plains closer to Sterling have picked up 1-2" of rain already.

And parts of Denver/Boulder and the front-range urban corridor have picked up 0.05" to 0.45" in the last 3-days (with up to 0.75" already for parts of the foothills).

Even parts of Colorado Springs and southeast CO have picked up 0.25" to 0.75" in the last 3-days.

At my house, 0.07" in the last 24hr hours with 0.12" in the last 3-days, and that was about expected before the main events: Thu, Fri and Sat.

Here are some notable 24hr rain reports form CoCoRaHS this morning:


Elizabeth 6.2 SSW: 1.67"

Haxtun 0.2 N: 1.35"

Norwood 0.1 W (west of Telluride): 1.16"

Evergreen 6.5 WSW: 1.03"

Fort Morgan 2.6 N: 0.98"

Silverton 0.3 WSW: 0.84"

Glenwood Springs 6.5 SE: 0.76"

Vail 0.9 WNW: 0.67"

Edwards 0.5 E: 0.59"

Granby 7.7 N: 0.55"

Colorado Springs 5.0 NNE: 0.50"

Nederland 0.4 WNW: 0.40"

Centennial 2.2 SW: 0.32"

Golden 1.6 SW: 0.25"

Littleton 2.5 W: 0.21"

Arvada 3.1 NW: 0.20"

Denver 3.5 SE: 0.14"

Boulder 3.6 SSE: 0.08"


And its currently raining at my house. Latest radar shows a few showers moving through the northern front-range this morning (was pouring near Estes Park earlier).

Going to be an active 3-days, good storm chances from 1pm-10pm each day, best chances after 4pm, I'll have more soon.

I'm stoked on all this rain for the mountains already, and we have 3 more days to go (which should favor the front-range more, conditional on the cap as I mentioned).

I'll have more later.

First image is 72hr observed rainfall from MRMS. Second image shows 72hr rain reports from NWS hazard viewer (some or not official stations). Image 3 is a CoCoRaHS map snippet over north-central CO showing 24hr reports and fourth image is a list of top 24hr reports from CoCoRaHS this morning.

How much rain did you get yesterday? Over the last 3-days?

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About Seth

Seth Linden combines professional expertise with a lifelong passion for weather forecasting.

A Colorado native and avid skier, Seth turned his early fascination with weather into a career, earning degrees in Physics and Atmospheric Science from CU Boulder. For over 25 years, he has worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), where he develops winter weather decision support systems for Denver International Airport and state transportation departments.

He shares his forecasting expertise through the Seth's Weather Report Facebook group, specializing in winter storm predictions.


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