Denver ✈ Chicago ✈ Manchester

HAIL!

Lack of airports, lack of marathons.  Vermont’s a gem.  Gotta work at it to appreciate it.

5:40 flight to Chicago, 1:35AM arrival in Manchester [3-hour Vermont drive next day].

Dropped off Ro at lunch, left 30 minutes early for DIA.  Spent that time on a 5-mile stretch within Boulder city limits.  Glad I left early, not my usual.  Spring storm forecasted/poised to hit Boulder – also not the usual (generally we’re shielded by the Flatirons, our surrounding peaks).

Skies opened, HAIL.  Flash flooding; sheets of water poured down Foothills [Parkway].  Weather app said 90 minutes more.  No time to wait, I’ve gotta flight to catch.  Argh 🙁

Weekend prediction: RAIN… ’tis the season ☂

Hail coming down in boulder

3:59 PM – May 18, 2018 · Boulder, CO

 

Paul Aiken✔@PaulAikenBDC

 

A storm struck Boulder County on Friday afternoon, flooded streets, dropped heavy localized hail and was accompanied by lightning, which struck a Gunbarrel apartment complex and started a fire.

 

The National Weather Service put much of the eastern part of the county under a flash flood warning for about 90 minutes, and the county remains under a flash flood watch until midnight Saturday as more rain — some of it heavy — is expected along the Front Range and eastern plains.

 

NWS Meteorologist Kyle Fredin said that 1-inch hailstones were reported in south Boulder and nearly 3 inches of rain fell in the northeastern part of the city, causing flooding in some streets.

 

Local meteorologist Matt Kelsch wrote on his blog on Friday that parts of the Front Range are “in for a lot of rain today and Saturday, with wet snow above the treeline.”

 

“Watch out for localized street flooding and the potential for creeks to spread out of their channels in some places,” he wrote. “The Saturday morning Farmers Markets may be in for the second wet Saturday in a row.”