Well at least not everyone has been brutally dry!

 In the previous post I did on June 24 (read it here), I put specific periods of opportunities (or not)...

July 4-11  A hotter period with several days, at least, of 100+.  But a few chances of thunderstorms, especially July 7.

July 12-18 A cooling trend with less hot temperatures.  A better than normal chance for thunderstorms, especially July 14-17.

July 25-28 cooler again with a above normal rainfall.

August 3-7 Below normal temps and above normal rainfall.

In between these dates it will likely be HOT and windy!

I was off on the July 7th date by one day as there was pretty good areas of rainfall yesterday (6th).  Even though the following map of rainfall is for a 72 hour period, the majority across the high plains fell yesterday. 

For the past 14 days.....

It's going to continue to be a struggle for systems to produce widespread rain events.  The North American Monsoon (NAM) has abated a bit (but still going) and let's hope it can regenerate strongly.  Colorado and New Mexico have certainly benefited.  Here is the outlook from the Weather Prediction Center through next Thursday (14th)...

I won't be able to update again until at least the 19th...