Temperatures are nice and mild across the plains today, with highs in the 70s and 80s for most locales early this afternoon. As a front moves across the plains by early to mid afternoon we expect temperatures to drop back into the 60s, with gusty winds to accompany that front as well. Get out and enjoy the warmth while you can, as the next several days look considerably cooler and for some of us wetter as well. Storms will be possible by the mid to late afternoon along the Front Range urban co

More than 92 million Americans are in abnormally dry to drought conditions which account for more than 65 percent of the Contiguous US based on the latest drought monitor released Thursday. The greatest drought improvements came from parts of Texas and Colorado to Nebraska thanks to a wet week here. The worst areas of degradation came from California thanks to hot, dry conditions here. Here we visualize where the drought changed from last week: During the past week, wet pockets were found n

We head into yet another weekend watching the forecast for a turn toward colder and wetter weather by late in the weekend and early next week. Friday will feature highs in the low 80s across the area, with about a 20% chance of afternoon storms. Saturday we see the storm chances increase, and temperatures drop some 5 to 10 degrees as well, with highs expected in the low to mid 70s for Denver. Storm chances Saturday will be in the 50% range, with better potential for some of those to become s