Big hail at night brought by a series of storms rolling over Colorado’s high plains northeast of Denver this week is raising questions among atmospheric scientists.
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Research into how a warming climate may be affecting the timing of storms has been limited, Schumacher said. A warmer atmosphere can hold more water, and that could be a factor driving unfamiliar weather events. This week in Colorado, the late hail pelted houses as close to metro Denver as Fort Lupton. And out on the plains around Brush, the storms led to the widespread breaking of windows, weather service meteorologist David Barjenbruch said.
Hail so big so late at night in Colorado is “extremely rare,” Barjenbruch said. “Typically in Colorado, we get rounds of afternoon rain and thunderstorms, and then things settle down overnight.. ….. This year, we have had a continuing unstable environment. There’s been a lot of low-level moisture. And low-level moisture, combined with daytime heating, are the two key ingredients to producing very large thunderstorms with hail.
Didn't expect to wake up to reports of possibly the biggest set of hailstorms on a single day in state history, and most of it late at night. 11 reports of 3"+ , and 4 reports of 4"+ hail. The most 3"+ reports I can find on a previous day was 4
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