The weather is settling down even as the flooding continues.

The total rainfall recorded in Boulder was 14.62 inches from Monday afternoon through Friday morning. The average total precipitation for Boulder during a year (rain + melted snow) is about 20-21 inches, which means this storm brought us 70% of our yearly average precipitation in only 3.5 days. Most of this precipitation fell during Wednesday, September 12th, when Boulder recorded 9.08 inches. This is by far the most rain ever recorded in Boulder in a single day, and the storm total of 14.62 inches is already the most recorded in a single month.

Some sunshine is peeking through the clouds over the front range today, and the threat of continued heavy rain is mostly over. However, I do expect more showers and storms Friday afternoon between about 4-10pm and Saturday afternoon from 4-10pm. These storms will be more typical, in that they'll only stick around for a few hours. We do have a decent chance of another period of steady rainfall from Sunday 6am-3pm. Then we should dry out on Monday and this drier weather will last through the rest of the week.

In summary, there will be more rain over the next three days, but nothing like we saw over the last three days. 

Rivers are coming down in Boulder but just about at their peak in Longmont, Loveland, and Ft. Collins. I'm hoping that with the rain subsiding, the rivers will subside for all areas by later today and definitely through the weekend.

Good luck to those cleaning up from the flood waters. It's sad that the front range lost three people in the flooding, and I hope that number doesn't increase. A tip of the hat to local emergency operations offices who seemed to do a very good job. Flooding is a known threat to the front range and most communities did have solid plans in place. Still, flooding is most common in one or two canyons / drainages at a time, not across the entire front range at the same time. This is one for the record books that hopefully we won't see repeated.

JOEL GRATZ