Road & Weather Alert, 2019.09.10

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Road and Weather Alert | 2019.09.10 

National Weather Service Grand Junction CO
140 PM MDT Tue Sep 10 2019

.SHORT TERM…(Tonight through Wednesday night)
Issued at 115 PM MDT Tue Sep 10 2019

An energetic environment will help produce showers and
thunderstorms across much of western CO and eastern UT this
evening. Some storms will approach severe criteria with strong
wind gusts accompanying hail and local heavy rain. The main trough
will dig into the Great Basin tonight and push across the northern
Rockies and northern CO late Wednesday afternoon and evening. The
surface cold front should move through the forecast area during
the day Wednesday.

High and low temperatures Wednesday and Wednesday night will drop
to about 5 degree below normal.

.LONG TERM…(Thursday through Tuesday)
Issued at 115 PM MDT Tue Sep 10 2019

By Thursday morning the front and trough aloft should be over
eastern CO and moving into the plains states. This will bring cool
and dry air into the area with northwest flow aloft. Slowly
weakening westerly flow and dry conditions will continue through
Friday and Saturday.

On Sunday another strong Pacific trough will develop along the
west coast with high pressure over the midwest and western Gulf of
Mexico. The position of these system will help pull moisture
north from northwest Mexico and into the Four Corners states.
Sunday through Tuesday should see increasing showers and
thunderstorms each afternoon. By Tuesday afternoon the Pacific
storm may be quite strong with its cold front moving through Utah.

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.AVIATION…(For the 18Z TAFS through 18Z Wednesday afternoon)
Issued at 115 PM MDT Tue Sep 10 2019

Scattered showers and thunderstorms will continue spreading across
western CO and eastern UT through about 06z. Some storms will
produce brief heavy rain and wind gust around 50 kts, mainly north
of a line from KCNY to KAJZ to KEGE. Mountains will be occasionally
obscured and brief MVFR visibility is possible over all TAF sites
Storms will diminish from the south to north Wednesday, as dry
air and breezy conditions move in behind the low pressure system.

For the complete NWS forecast, visit: National Weather Service, Grand Junction, CO