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8) Any rain up on the pawnee? Western Slope is getting alot. Tim
I am 30 minutes and 45 miles from the north launch site here in Wellington, CO and we have been getting nice sustained drizzles. I know winter is over and building will have to slow down because I have to break out the mower, weedeater, and other implements of destruction to work on the agriculture. such a waste of my valuable building time. I will probably have to paint the house also. Anybody want to help. I have beer and smoked barbque.
It has been raining here in Northglenn for a couple hours, as of 9:30. On the radar looks like the grass lands should be receiving the same. Grow grass Grow!
I was just looking at weather.com, and for the first time in quite a while, the rainfall for this month in Nunn is substantially above average 😀
(Mile high mayhem, here we come…)
Not to mention the May 7 Saturday launch on the calendar. Hopefully we’ll hear about some green popping up at the north site in the next week or so. I know my lawn’s weeds are springing up.
According to the excellent source Adrain posted a few weeks ago, http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/ at station number 46; ( MNUNC2, lat. 40.87, lon. -104.73, elev. 5897′) in the last six days that location has received .33″ of rain. Since that is within 10 miles of the launch site, that might be a close approximation of the rainfall at the north site. See if you disagree.
Nothing heavy but we have had consistent spurts of precipitation down south in the Littleton area. I’m hoping the same is happening up north. Anyone care to venture a guess at the odds of getting to fly this weekend?
I went out to the launch site last Friday. The prairie is dry but starting to show signs of greening. A very little bit of moisture has been making an appearance and IF the weather patterns hold for this week, without drying winds blowing thru, we’ll be GOOD TO GO on Saturday, May 7th. I’m planning on it. Current forecast is looking good.
It has rained VERY little out here on the grasslands. Lots of wind but little moisture. There was even a wicked thunderstorm with lightning I have not seen since being stationed in Missouri.
Everyone who has been doing the rain dance, keep going. It’s working:
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We are Good to Go with our scheduled and approved launch on Saturday April 5th and Sunday April 6th, from the North Site, subject to change – Mostly cloudy and High Winds predicted. Range and waiver should be active by 9AM on Saturday. The Pawnee National Grassland remains fragile and dry, so extra precautions are in order. Please stay on the authorized roads and please don’t park more than 100’ off the road at the flight line.