Rain reports over the last 3 days (and 24hrs).

08/01/25 8:15: Happy Friday, Happy first day of August (our last month of meteorological summer). First some rain reports over the last 24 and 72hrs.

As I mentioned last night: Some areas just south of Colorado Springs: Fountain-Ft. Carson area picked up 2.50" to 2.75" of rain yesterday. And there was some areas on the eastern plains, say northeast of Bennett and also near Burlington (CO/KS border) that picked up nearly 4.0" of rain from stationary thunderstorms yesterday evening.

Looking at the 72hr observed rainfall from MRMS (image 1) the Den/Bou donut hole is super obvious, as we have been talking about the last couple days, due to a capping inversion (too much CIN) and generally an unfavorable environment for thunderstorms (common this time of year and you can read all about it from my post on Wed night).

On the flipside much of the eastern plains, areas near the Palmer Divide and the southern front-range / plains picked up a whopping 1-3" of rain the last 3 days.

In the mountains generally 0.5" to 1.0" of rain in spots (much more spotty) but good to see some rain there, especially over southern CO.

Second image shows some top 24hr reports from CoCoRaHS (doesn't capture those big bullseye since there likely wasn't any house in those spots).

Here are some notable 24hr reports from CoCoRaHS:

Burlington 0.58 NE: 3.91"
Fountain 1.0 NNE: 1.78"
Brush 7.3 SSE: 1.53"
Canon City 4.2 E: 1.31"
Colorado Springs 8.2 SE: 1.18"
Akron 0.8 ESE: 1.17"
Sterling 2.6 SSW: 0.98"
Gunnison 6.6 N: 0.78"
Fort Morgan 0.4 SW: 0.69"
Greeley 1.7 ESE: 0.67"
Ouray .23 NNW: 0.57"

Forecast coming next: good chance for storms across much of the central mountains today (north to south): 1pm-7pm.

Isolated to scattered storms for Den/Bou and the front-range: 2pm-8pm. More on that later.

How much rain did you get the last 3 days. Only a Trace at my house in Westminster.

First image shows 72hr observed rainfall from MRMS. Second image shows top 24hr reports across the state from CoCoRaHS and third image is an equivalent map showing the reports.