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Colorado weather: Warm Friday gives way to a colder pattern beginning this weekend

Get out and enjoy the day! Highs in Denver are expected in the low to mid 60s today, with anomalous warmth expected across the state today ahead of a shift to cooler and more unsettled weather as we head into the weekend. Saturday will be some 20-degrees colder across Northeast Colorado, with highs in the 40s both Saturday and Sunday along the Front Range. A reinforcing shot of cold air arrives early next week which could mean a couple days with sub-freezing high temperatures for the metro are
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Windy Wednesday, Mountain snow returns Friday
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Colorado Weather: Snow potential remains uncertain Wednesday night, Thursday
Big time thaw-out in action out there Monday and Tuesday! Temperatures Tuesday afternoon are in the mid-to-upper 40s for many throughout the Urban Corridor. The next big question on our plate is what happens with this thing: That's satellite imagery of the upper-level low pressure system expected to move through Colorado Wednesday into Thursday. A lot of question marks have been hanging on this thing as model data has had a tough time trying to figure out exactly what this wants to do. Here
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Denver weather: Chilly Sunday, milder this week with two snow chances
Cooler temperatures remain Sunday following Saturday cold front with snowfall that behaved well to our forecast, except near El Paso County which was a bust...they got too much snow, Mother Nature ignored us. Here are the observations since Friday morning: As the snow passed through Denver Saturday morning, a band of increased snowfall rates was indicated on the radar. The cold air's interaction with warmer air just off the surface created areas of enhanced lift. This resulted in some deeper s
Denver Weather
Friday warm up before another cold shot and snow this weekend
It's been a CHILLY one for much of January. After last week's arctic weather, we've kind of recovered. Here on Friday, we'll get another tiny break with 40s and !50s! making a return... before another strong cold front sweeps through for the weekend. This will bring more snow to Colorado as well. First: the good stuff! Enjoy today, got real nice stuff out there compared to much of the last week or so! Below are about as warm as we get this afternoon... we'll take it! Sorry to burst your bubble
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Denver Weather: A chill today, snow on way for the weekend
Strong wind gusts hit the Front Range Tuesday evening as another push of cooler temperatures arrived. This will be just a chill this time along with a hint of snow here and there today, but we could see accumulating snowfall return this weekend. First, today. Here are hourly temperature timelines for Denver and Colorado Springs. For Denver, which hit 42° Tuesday, we'll be about ten degrees cooler today staying at and below freezing throughout. DenverColorado SpringsAlthough there will be some
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La Niña and seasonal forecast update, January 2025
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Another quick shot of snow along the Front Range, cold night ahead for Denver
We hope everyone is staying warm! A quick post this afternoon to update you on the current cold spell and a mention of a quick chance for snow tonight into Monday morning. First, a quick look at snow totals from the last couple of days. Overall it looks like most locations managed at least the low-end of our snowfall forecast, but certainly some winners and loser from round one. DIA picked up 2.4" of snow, with the greatest totals hugging the hills west of I-25 and the Palmer Divide. Very co
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Denver Weather: It's here, you'll feel temperatures plunge and snowfall increase
Midday Friday and you can see it in the air with the poor air quality, the cold air is driving in. Our thinking since yesterday has not changed, so, here is a quick look at the hourly planners, travel issues, snowfall totals, etc. Oh, you won't miss this arriving... the wind has been howling in many areas (faster than 50mph across Northern Colorado through this morning). Plus, the air isn't the cleanest, peek outside if you haven't already. We've reached our high and now temperatures are drop
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Colorado Arctic Weather: Cold and snow expected this weekend
We've been on top of the big changes ahead for this weekend. Here's a little update on what we're working with! The latest: NWS has issued a winter weather advisory for much of the Front Range and parts of the Plains: Regarding what we've been tracking for you this week - generally speaking, not a whole lot has changed. Today is likely our nicest afternoon for awhile... We'll see a bit of a dip by tomorrow... generally 40s. By Saturday we attempt to get to 20 by sunrise before a precipitous
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Denver Weather: So, when does this cold hit, and will we see snow?
It'll be night and day different around here by this weekend as we go from the sunny warmth to the deep-freeze and there'll be snowfall too...sounds like winter to me. First, we are likely headed to well below zero temperatures this weekend and early next week. Sure, some of the daytime highs may be record setting for how chilly they are but overall we are not looking at record low temperatures. Maybe I'll start there, a list of existing record cold temperatures for Denver: January 18th: -19°
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Colorado Weather: Cold weather, snow, after a warm week
This week, overall, looks quiet with warm days and lots of melting of that recent snow now ice. By the weekend, however, a whole new ballgame - snow then cold...potentially very cold. Luke Victor talked at length to our Insiders with a more technical look at the setup driving Arctic temperatures toward the U.S. and how they'll likely be closer to home this time. Here is that post: Weather5280 Insider: Arctic Air this weekend? Here’s what we know and a polar vortex explainerAh, yes. It’s polar
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Weather5280 Insider: Arctic Air this weekend? Here's what we know and a polar vortex explainer
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Colorado weekend weather: Additional snow chances, more cold air
Following Thursday's amped up cold front that brought a lot of folks near-blizzard conditions around the Palmer Divide, we've calmed down quite a bit here on Friday to close up shop for the week. From: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19fBBjpgih/Those were scenes from northern Colorado Springs Thursday morning while I was out and about – needless to say it got a bit rocky at times... Looking ahead to the weekend, another area of troughing will develop over the western US and eventually cut off
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Denver Weather: Snow overnight, advisory issued to the east and south
Snowfall will focus on the southern metro areas through Thursday morning as a quick system drops snow and increases the wind. The result? Potentially a slower morning commute in some cases. I'd watch for C470/E470, I-25 from DTC to Monument, 86 east of Castle Rock and I-70 east of Watkins, and Hwy 24 east and west of the Springs to have potential issues. I'll get to the totals in a moment, but first the alert. The areas of highest impact are highlighted here in this advisory. The details from
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Snow has ended, frigid night ahead, active pattern continues?
Well, even though there wasn't a ton of snow, the cold air kept the roads nasty for much of the morning and early afternoon out there, and the night ahead will be cold! A bit of a ho-hum storm overall for totals, especially where the bump up to a Winter Storm Warning for parts of southern Colorado with meager totals to show for it. While most areas managed to fall within our forecast range along the urban corridor, many folks ended up on the low end. It happens. This was kind of fun! > A r
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Winter Weather Advisory posted for Denver, Front Range of Colorado
As discussed yesterday , our next system quickly approaches as our weekend storm is now delivering a wintry wallop to Washington DC in one last hurrah for a storm that brought a serious bit of winter to central CONUS over the last couple of days. While the Denver area didn't se
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Colorado Weather: Snow impacts Monday and Tuesday, winter-like cold this week
Hey all! Pretty impressive storm system over the center of the nation right now – it was responsible for the freezing fog reports over much of eastern Colorado yesterday. Other than that and the cold air that it's drawn in, much of the state was spared from major impacts which are being felt in the form of a blizzard over central Kansas, and a major sleet and freezing rain storm for areas around and south of St. Louis, MO. This compact, bowling-ball type system is going to race eastward quic
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Denver Weather: Foggy start, some icing, snow nearby this weekend
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