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This storm has been traversing the entire U.S. from east to west. It passed through the Denver area last weekend and caused heavy rainfall and dew points near 60 (high for us). Technically is is referred to as an extratropical easterly wave.
Generally the westerly flow is interrupted in the summer across the southern US (and farther north at times). But I thought it was interesting that you could actually get a storm that moved almost 3000 miles from east to west in the temperate zone.
BTW: There is a mistake in the above link's title: the storm was rotating anticlockwise (as all storms do in the northern hemisphere) it was just moving in the opposite direction from what is normally expected at those latitudes.
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