Monsoon Clouds Are Here But Where’s The Rain?

By Chris SpearsDENVER (CBS4) – It was so nice to wake up this morning to extensive cloud cover along the Front Range courtesy of the North American Monsoon.
So why isn’t it raining?
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To understand why we need to look at this morning’s weather balloon data for Denver.
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It showed that the atmosphere was still very dry in the lowest few thousand feet, evident by the “inverted V” shape in the data. (the red line represents temperature and the