For second straight day,
we're following storms.
Though today looks much tamer than yesterday.
People cleaning up from yesterds
storm have had to protect
themselves from a lot of rain t.
Rain has been falling for most f
the day along the Front Range. ,
the skies are doing better,
but you see those pictures on the ground.
Things have been problematic.
By noon today, we'd already been
experiencing Denver's wettest dy
of the year so far, and that is
showing up on the roads like he.
Adams County has shut down sevel
roads out east due to flooding.
The county was sharing these
pictures this afternoon,
showing some of the cars that are stuck.
They're stuck pretty deep too,
out in Bennett and Strasbourg, of course.
Free water for our lawns, that's welcome.
But the rain today and tomorrowy
add up to too much of a good th.
We've got some pictures of the creeks and
the streams that are running pretty high.
As it often happens,
we see part of the bike path along the
Cherry Creek Trail all but cove.
And Cherry Creek State Park also
reporting some damage done this morning.
Some of the roads there were flooded.
E Lakeview Rd.
which runs through part of the ,
is closed now.
Part of that road is crumbled a.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife said
there's some damage to pipes tht
carry water under the road as w.
The park itself does remain ope.
It's a very different scene up
in the mountains where fresh
snow fell along Loveland Pass.
Roads were wet but mostly clear this morning.
But once the storm moves out,
some places could see more thana
foot of fresh snow in certain a.
So let's check in with Danielle
Grinn who's been tracking this.
Also what we're under a flood wh
around the Denver area now and I mean
it's been raining for what, 36 hours?
Incredibly unusual for us to see
this kind of wet weather pushin.
In fact, this has been the wettest day
that we have seen and two years time,
two years with this storm from
yesterday and today we are lookg
at 2.43 inches officially out at DIA.
Keep in mind the average for th.
Entire month of May at 2.16,
so we have certainly exceeded that and the
storm system like you said is not done yet.
I'm still looking at the potential for
another one to two inches of water to
come through across the Front Re
by this time tomorrow afternoon.
Hence the reason we have that fd
watch in place at least through tonight.
Wouldn't be surprised if they extended
out through tomorrow just because of all
of the rainfall and unfortunately that
has led to some flash flooding out there.
This is our camera atop Lookout Mountain.
This really has been the scene .
Cloudy skies,
soggy skies coming across the Ft
Range and then up into the high country.
Hit has been all snow all the t.
Talk about a power powder day of
powder day in May. Pretty unusu.
We are looking at this area of low pressure
sitting in far southeastern Colorado,
tapping into some of the
moisture from the Gulf.
And that is allowing these thunderstorms
to really ramp up in intensity
across the northeastern plains.
Back here around the I-25 corri,
still looking at some solid rain coming
through, just what we needed in that.
Up in the mountains we're seeing
a little bit. Of a lull out the.
More on the way.
Late tonight into tomorrow as ty
have a winter storm warning in place.
Here's the futurecast.
Taking us to 10:00 o'clock toni.
Could see some pockets of really
heavy rain here in Denver.
Some nice sleeping weather.
As long as we just can get rid of the
lightning and the Thunder That t
keep you up as well as the haily
about 8:00 o'clock tomorrow mor.
Still going to be a soggy start
to the day but I am tracking soe
clearing as we look ahead toward
late tomorrow afternoon as the m
system finally moves out of the state.
But again,
tonight we're still going to be
under the gun. Keep. That in mi.
And tomorrow,
if you're traveling up into the
mountains still thinking about
breaking out the skis or snowbo,
you have time to enjoy some fresh powder.
All eyes ahead toward the weeke.
And of course, Mother's Day Guy,
I'll let you know if we have a
shot at seeing some sunshine.
I don't know. That would be nic.
The mother ask here a lot, Alex.
A little sun on our day.
Respecting some sun later this year though
later this year, most likely.
Tom. Still not a guarantee,
but here's to hoping.
Rolling. Not even halfway through the year,
Danielle, we'll talk to you much more
about the weather throughout the hour.
Of course, we've already seen
some of the flooding in and
around the Denver area today,
generally pretty minimal in the city,
but there could be more coming s
those hours of rain still await.
Let's check in with meteorologit
Corey Repinig and he is live whe
the the water does gather.
That's why they call it Confluence Park.
We're watching flooding.
There certainly is real concern though
not in the metro area but around
the many burn scars in our stat.
Yeah, we're keeping an eye on both of those,
and all of the rivers and streas
are looking so dramatic right n.
Just take a look at Confluence
Park here with the Cherry Creek
in the S Platte come together.
The water is running very high
and it is running very fast,
and just about every bike and
jogging path around this area is
completely submerged in water.
But so far that's all it's
been is a few dramatic visuals.
As we have not had a flash flood
warning issued yet along the Der
metro area or the Northern Front Range,
and the reason for that is because it's
taken so long for this rain to ,
2 to 4 inches over a 36 hour period is
something that the system can't handle.
If it was 2 to 4 inches in one or two hours,
then we would be looking at some trouble.
It's a little different though n
the burn scars where we've also
been keeping an eye on those.
This is video from the Cameron k
burn scar last summer where jus4
of an inch of of rain could have
brought out a flash flood warni.
But this now being the third yer
after the fire,
we've seen a lot of regrowth and
stabilization and that has made
a huge difference because,
I mean,
look at this radar loop over the
Cameron Peak burn scar from tod.
Where there's some heavy rain showing
up there in that burn scar and o
far we have not had a single wag
issued up in the burn scars and that's
because of that regrowth and stabilization.
Now back here Confluence Park
where the rain keeps coming dow,
this is pretty unusual.
We haven't seen the the confluence this
big really since September of 2.
So we'll keep an eye.
If we get a heavier burst of ran
through the afternoon and eveni,
we could see a flash flood
warning because the flash,
the flood watch goes until
6:00 AM tomorrow morning.
Wow,
Corey, you see that water runnig
high and fast? First time in
10 years we've been that high.
We will check back with you in t
a bit for more on that. Thanks.