Clouds miss in Colorado - but not in UT/AZ!

None of the major US forecast models predicted any cloud in the Front Range area this morning - here’s HRRR (the darker gray is mountains, not cloud):

However, we woke up to some rare and very pretty broken cloud, which lit nicely at sunrise. Here’s the view a while later:

However, the models did get the medium level cloud at Monument Valley this morning:

You can see how nicely that went in Alan Dyer’s post here:

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