Perhaps some good news in the forecast for the upcoming week, but this should be met with a healthy dose of pessimism until we see actual water falling from the sky. Why? Because the pattern is a dry one, and despite what models have shown from time to time, the favored outcome will continue to hedge dry until we can fundamentally shift the pattern around here. Take the trusty European ensemble mean forecast for precipitation anomalies through next Sunday evening. It shows a blip of above av

Yes, it has been windy. And, it is safe to say it has been windier than normal around Denver and the Front Range in the past couple of months. It's important to keep things in perspective, so let's look at this from a top down approach, if you will. Wind events are common along the leeside of the Rocky Mountains, but what makes this recent pattern unusual is the scope of the winds across the U.S. as well as the frequency of strong wind events here in the city. To begin, let's take a look at A

We are certainly warming and greening up nicely, but that means we will need better chances of precipitation to keep things progressing. Overall, the week ahead has low-end rain chances and warmer than average temperatures in the forecast for Colorado. The atmosphere for the week will have some troughing (unsettled weather) across the western U.S. early in the week, but notice how that area of blues on the map skirts the western part of the state before moving to our north and east. The path