View above at 7:20 am MST this morning showing showers this part of town. At bottom is view of sunrise from campus.
There were early morning rains (about 1:00 to 3:00 am MST) as per ALERT above for 24-hours ending 6:00 am this morning. Airport had 0.31" and Atmo had 0.26" at this time - started raining again here before I got out to read rain gauge.
Just now (7:51 am) able to read gauge here, which has a total for both morning periods of 0.60" - most rain here since August 10th!
More showers (no lightning or thunder) moved into parts of metro by 7:18 am (composite radar above for that time). Alert below is for last 3 hours ending at 7:20 am.
The morning TWC sounding (above from SPC for 12 UTC) shows continued high moisture, some CAPE, and westerly winds almost all levels.
Morning 500 mb chart (below, also from SPC) appears to show both main trough over must of West, but also weaker shortwave along Arizona/New Mexico border. This has proved to be a nice rain-maker with the high PW already in place here.
WRF-GFS forecast run at 06 UTC forecast these morning rains and then little for rest of day.
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