Weather Alerts for Colorado
1. Fire Weather Watch for: Cheyenne; Wallace; Logan; Greeley; Wichita
2. Fire Weather Watch for: San Luis Valley Including Alamosa/Del Norte/Fort Garland/Saguache; Southern Front Range Including Sangre De Cristo Mountains/Wet Mountains/La Veta Pass; Otero County Including La Junta and Western Comanche Grasslands; Eastern Las Animas County Including Pinon Canyon
3. High Wind Warning for: Canon City Vicinity/Eastern Fremont County
4. High Wind Warning for: Larimer and Boulder Counties Between 6000 and 9000 Feet; Jefferson and West Douglas Counties Above 6000 Feet/Gilpin/Clear Creek/Northeast Park Counties Below 9000 Feet
5. High Wind Warning for: Larimer County Below 6000 Feet/Northwest Weld County; Boulder And Jefferson Counties Below 6000 Feet/West Broomfield County
6. High Wind Warning for: Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 8500 And 11000 Ft; Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains above 11000 Ft; Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Between 7500 and 11000 Ft; Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Ft; Wet Mountains between 6300 and 10000Ft; Wet Mountains above 10000 Ft
7. High Wind Warning for: Teller County/Rampart Range above 7500fT/Pike's Peak Between 7500 And 11000 Ft; Pikes Peak above 11000 Ft
8. High Wind Warning for: Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Ft; Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Ft
9. High Wind Warning for: Wet Mountain Valley Below 8500 Ft
10. Red Flag Warning for: Baca County Including Springfield and Eastern Comanche Grasslands
11. Red Flag Warning for: Baca County Including Springfield and Eastern Comanche Grasslands
12. Red Flag Warning for: Cheyenne; Wallace; Logan; Greeley; Wichita
13. Red Flag Warning for: Kit Carson County; Sherman
14. Red Flag Warning for: San Luis Valley Including Alamosa/Del Norte/Fort Garland/Saguache; Southern Front Range Including Sangre De Cristo Mountains/Wet Mountains/La Veta Pass; Otero County Including La Junta and Western Comanche Grasslands; Eastern Las Animas County Including Pinon Canyon
15. Red Flag Warning for: San Luis Valley Including Alamosa/Del Norte/Fort Garland/Saguache; Southern Front Range Including Sangre De Cristo Mountains/Wet Mountains/La Veta Pass; Otero County Including La Junta and Western Comanche Grasslands; Eastern Las Animas County Including Pinon Canyon
16. Red Flag Warning for: Southeast Elbert County Below 6000 Feet/South Lincoln County
17. Red Flag Warning for: Southeast Elbert County Below 6000 Feet/South Lincoln County
18. Winter Weather Advisory for: Elkhead and Park Mountains; Flat Tops
19. Winter Weather Advisory for: Gore and Elk Mountains/Central Mountain Valleys
20. Winter Weather Advisory for: La Garita Mountains Above 10000 Ft; Eastern San Juan Mountains Above 10000 Ft
21. Winter Weather Advisory for: West Jackson and West Grand Counties Above 9000 Feet; South and East Jackson/Larimer/North and Northeast Grand/Northwest Boulder Counties Above 9000 Feet; South and Southeast Grand/West Central and Southwest Boulder/Gilpin/Clear Creek/Summit/North and West Park Counties Above 9000 Feet
22. Winter Weather Advisory for: Western Mosquito Range/East Lake County Above 11000 Ft; Eastern Sawatch Mountains above 11000 Ft
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Weather Topic: What is Graupel?
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Next Topic: Hail
Graupel is a form of precipitation that is created by atmospheric conditions
which cause supercooled water droplets to contact snow crystals and freeze to
their surface.
Sometimes known as soft hail or snow pellets, graupel is delicate and easily
destroyed by touch. Whereas hail usually falls during severe weather, graupel
doesn't require such conditions to form, and can form in mild precipitation
similar to situations which produce snowfall.
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Weather Topic: What are Hole Punch Clouds?
Home - Education - Cloud Types - Hole Punch Clouds
Next Topic: Mammatus Clouds
A hole punch cloud is an unusual occurrence when a disk-shaped
hole appears in a cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, or altocumulus cloud.
When part of the cloud forms ice crystals, water droplets in the surrounding area
of the cloud evaporate. The effect of this process produces a large elliptical
gap in the cloud. The hole punch cloud formation is rare, but it is not specific
to any geographic area.
Other names which have been used to describe this phenomena include fallstreak hole,
skypunch, and cloud hole.
Next Topic: Mammatus Clouds