Rain has been the theme of the week.

Many of us may be getting tired of the frequent heavy storms, but they’ve brought our rainfall totals much closer to normal for the month of August.

Severe weather events were a big theme early in August across the eastern plains.

Massive baseball-sized and larger hailstones were recorded on August 9th along with several tornado warnings.

But these storms were widely scattered. So while intense… they didn’t provide widespread heavy rain to the Front Range.

As of Thursday morning, Colorado Springs’ airport had seen about 2.4" of rain since August began.

Pueblo’s airport has seen almost the same amount.

This is a half inch above average in Pueblo and about three-tenths below average in the Springs.

But that’s not particularly notable.

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