Tuesday's Black Hollow Flood that spilled into the Cache la Poudre River, destroying five homes and killing one person — three others are missing — likely won't be the last flood to rock the river this summer.
National Weather Service Boulder meteorologist Paul Schlatter surveyed the flood zone and said what happened from a weather standpoint wasn't an anomaly but quite typical of July afternoon thunderstorms in Colorado's mountains.
That's why he said residents and recreationists in the Poudre Canyon should pay attention to weather forecasts this summer and fall. Even more so the next two weeks because he said the forecast calls for a continual weather pattern of afternoon thunderstorm chances with monsoon moisture available for Northern Colorado.