{"id":12585,"date":"2013-09-14T21:07:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T03:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=12585"},"modified":"2013-09-14T21:07:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T03:07:56","slug":"ucar-atmosnews-inside-the-colorado-deluge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=12585","title":{"rendered":"UCAR AtmosNews | Inside the Colorado deluge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ucar.edu\/atmosnews\/opinion\/10250\/inside-colorado-deluge\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/raingauge_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Kelsch, a hydrometeorologist in UCAR\u2019s Community Programs who volunteers with NOAA\u2019s cooperative weather observing program, measures the historic daily total of 9.08 inches at Boulder\u2019s official station on September 12. (Photo by Bob Henson, UCAR.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Even after the rains finally abated on Friday, I found myself struck by how the waterlogged air in Boulder felt oddly, almost eerily tropical. This only put an exclamation point on the weirdness of the week and its events. Four days of rainfall across Colorado\u2019s Front Range produced massive flooding that\u2019s marooned thousands of people, inundated many key roads, and damaged countless homes and businesses. Just how rare was this event? Was it a 100-year flood, or something bigger (or smaller)? As always, the answer depends on exactly what you\u2019re looking at, and exactly where.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at UCAR AtmosNews: <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ucar.edu\/atmosnews\/opinion\/10250\/inside-colorado-deluge\">Inside the Colorado deluge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Even after the rains finally abated on Friday, I found myself struck by how the waterlogged air in Boulder felt oddly, almost eerily tropical. This only put an exclamation point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[213,835,568,840,836,839,837,838],"class_list":["post-12585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-climate-change","tag-flood","tag-flooding","tag-hydrology","tag-precipitation","tag-rainfall","tag-runoff","tag-streamflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12585"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12603,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions\/12603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}