Just a few days the Front Range was sweltering from a record long heat wave with the two hottest days ever recorded in August here in Cheyenne. How quickly things can change. Tuesday brought the end of the heat wave with quite a bang. A powerful two hours long thunderstorm with powerful winds, driving rain, and quarter sized hail pounded the area early Tuesday evening causing widespread localized flooding and some property damage. I was at work throughout the storm and the pounding rainfall sounded like millions of loud drumbeats on the metal roof at the factory to the extent it was deafening, but also refreshing with a moist cool breeze blowing into the facility. When it was all said and done, a record 2.02 " of moisture was recorded, making it easily the rainiest 6 August ever, but also the 11th greatest rainstorm in Cheyenne history. Wednesday saw a repeat but with much less rain -- only about a 1/2 inch. The two days of good strong rain bring the annual rainfall deficit in Cheyenne down to less than an inch and a half. The forecast is for thunderstorms and rain for the rest of this week and into next week. We have got to get it now, because once we get late into August, rainfall pretty much ends for the rest of the calendar year and what snow falls in the next four months will largely be dry and with only a limited moisture content. Even with all this rain here in Cheyenne and across the Front Range region, it pales in comparison to the rains that Tropical Storm Edouard pounded Houston Intercontinental with as a record 2.81 " fell there by comparison.=
RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
0133 AM MDT WED AUG 06 2008
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...RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM RAINFALL SET AT THE CHEYENNE AIRPORT...
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A RECORD RAINFALL FOR AUGUST 5TH OF 2.02 INCHES WAS SET AT CHEYENNE
AIRPORT TUESDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD FOR AUGUST 5TH OF 0.96
INCH SET IN 1954. 1.91 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION WAS RECORDED AUGUST
5TH AT THE NEARBY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN CHEYENNE.
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NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
231 AM CDT WED AUG 06 2008
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...RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM RAINFALL SET AT HOUSTON INTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT...
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A RECORD RAINFALL OF 2.81 INCHES WAS SET AT HOUSTON INTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT YESTERDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 2.65 SET IN 1994.
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