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Colorado Weather: Smoke-filled air may improve some with late week rain

By Matt Makens
Thu, Jul 25, 2024
The air quality is terrible again today, but there is a bit of improvement ahead to end the week. The longer-term concern will be the control of fires in the Northwestern U.S. and Canada and how much smoke improvement we may see in our sky. Let's start with the smoke forecast. I've overlaid fire locations indicated with red triangles. The thickest smoke is in the yellow shades. This animation runs through the next two days. We can see some thinning of that smoke over Colorado's skies into Frid
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Colorado smoke could last for days - Weather5280
By Luke Victor
Tue, Jul 23, 2024
Thick wildfire smoke flooded Colorado skies Monday and as we wake up Tuesday morning, our beautiful view of the mountains continues to be shrouded. https://www.weather.gov/bou/Air quality alerts have been thrown for the entire eastern half of the state, stretching from the continental divide all the way to the Kansas border. If you have respiratory issues, you'll want to limit time outdoors – and even folks in good shape will likely experience discomfort if you perform strenuous outdoor activi
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Denver Weather: Cooler and potentially wet with thunderstorm activity through Sunday night
By Matt Makens
Sun, Jul 21, 2024
Saturday had some impressively heavy rainfall on parts of the Front Range and elsewhere in Colorado. Weather5280 picked up 0.98" in 30 minutes Saturday night. There are additional storms carrying heavy rainfall expected today, plus Sunday will be a cooler day with only 70s for highs. Let's do a quick visit at Saturday's rainfall totals. Two maps for you, one is the N. Front Range and the other is the state. The heaviest rainfall in the Denver area was on top of Santa Fe between Chatfield/Highl
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Denver has seen fewer than 10 days with highs 90°F or hotter in 2023, that's about to change
By Brendan Heberton
Fri, Jul 21, 2023
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By Brendan Heberton
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image: Denver Weather: Uptick in storms expected today, cooler too, a weekend peekDenver Weather
Denver Weather: Uptick in storms expected today, cooler too, a weekend peek
By Matt Makens
Wed, Jul 17, 2024
Below average temperatures for a change today, plus we will see an uptick in storms around the metro area. In terms of chances, there is a definite focus of storminess for Southern Colorado and Plains east of the city. For timing, the metro area has its highest chance of a storm from 1 to 5 pm. Here's a timeline for all of us. Notice how the storms start off few and far between, then merge into bigger "lines" of storms as they move east onto the Plains. The overall risk of severe weather is
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Colorado Weather Tuesday: Turning stormy, including Denver, with higher risk of damaging storms over plains
By Matt Makens
Tue, Jul 16, 2024
If you did not receive rain Monday, you have additional chances ahead including today. There may be too much rainfall in isolated cases leading to some flooding but the overall risk associated with tornadoes, wind, and hail are higher over the southeastern corner of the state. Today's chance of a storm - severe or not: Today's areas where the risk of a severe storm is higher: Today's timeline of estimated locations and movement of the thunderstorms: As we look at the hourly planner, our chan
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Denver breaks 146-year record high; Increased storm chances with cooling through midweek
By Brendan Heberton
Mon, Jul 15, 2024
We've been cooking over the last couple of days. Denver set two new record highs over the last four days, and came close the other two days. * Thursday: 98°F (Record 102°F (1954)) * Friday: 102°F (NEW Record – Prior 101°F (1971)) * Saturday: 99°F (Record 100°F (2003)) * Sunday: 101°F (NEW Record – Prior 100°F (1878)) We'll shave a few degrees off highs this afternoon in the Mile High City, but it'll still be nothing short of hot. Blended guidance tops the city out at 97°F this afternoon,
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Record heat wave likely this weekend, Boulder fire breaks out
By Luke Victor
Fri, Jul 12, 2024
An intense heat wave is taking hold across Colorado today and into the weekend. We're expecting the potential for 3 or 4 days of 100+ in Denver. A stretch like that has only occurred 6 times in since records have been kept since 1872. The "official" record at DIA which dates back to 1994 has occurred 5 times. ⬇️ Below is a look at current alerts from the NWS ⬇️ Heat advisories stretch along I-25 and over most of the eastern plains including the I-76 and HWY 50 corridors. The main message wit
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Denver Weather: Heatwave expected through the weekend, multiple records possible
By Matt Makens
Wed, Jul 10, 2024
Hot and mostly dry weather will arrive by and will stick around through the weekend. For Denver, three daily record temperatures may fall with 100°s expected three straight days. Here are the forecast highs for points around the region. Now, take that image and see how far from record high temperatures those forecast highs are and we have: Cheyenne, Denver, Colorado Springs, Scottsbluff, and Grand Junction all have several chances to best the existing record high temperatures. For Denver, Sun
Denver Forecast
4th of July Weekend: Warm Saturday, Showers Sunday?
By Luke Victor
Fri, Jul 05, 2024
Hey all, hope you had a wonderful holiday! Seems like it might have been a buy one get 10 free at the fireworks shop this year... Anyways, what a day of weather to celebrate! It was very mild considering the last decade of mostly hot Independence Days. Colorado Springs saw it's coolest since 2010 with a high of 81. For Denver, only the 2nd coolest since 2010, last year only made it to 78! We've got really nice stuff to kick off our Friday too. Plenty of blue sky along the front range. It is a
Fourth of July Forecast
Colorado weather: A look at temperatures and storm chances as we head into the holiday weekend
By Brendan Heberton
Wed, Jul 03, 2024
All in all a pretty darn good looking July 4th forecast for folks living along the Front Range, and really most of Colorado. Some isolated storms to deal with, but activity doesn't look all too widespread, gusty wind at times, and temperatures will cool into the low 80s for Thursday and Friday as well. Here's the hourly planner for the Denver metro area, taking you through early Saturday morning: For folks east of Denver and in and around Colorado Springs, today could feature a bit more in t
Heat Wave
Hot June across Colorado, what's ahead for July; Beryl booms
By Luke Victor
Mon, Jul 01, 2024
As early as May, there were plenty of signals that June was going to be a hot one across Colorado. It's likely the data was even underdone a bit. https://bit.ly/3zrR54XBelow are some charts on how hot it actually got. Both Denver and Colorado Springs experienced their second hottest June on record! However, you look back to 2012 for both locations, we were still shy of that year by a good amount. A testament to the parched springs and scorching summer which birthed the infamous Waldo Canyon Fir
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Denver area weather: Storms electrify your afternoon and evening plans
By Matt Makens
Sun, Jun 30, 2024
There are storms floating around, mostly over the Castle Rock area, as of 4 p.m. The chance for storms around the metro area continues through the early evening. What's the worry? Lightning will be pretty legit for a time, plus severe wind and hail threats. For the mountains, a steady supply of thunderstorms will create risks not just from the lightning but for flash flooding too. Storms moved east from the high country after lunch. Just after 4 pm, the radar was "lighting up" over Douglas Co
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Denver Weather: A guide to your weekend weather
By Matt Makens
Fri, Jun 28, 2024
Periodic storms will grab attention today through Sunday, with large hail and damaging wind being the primary threat Friday for the northeastern corner of the state. Gusty wind will be possible throughout the weekend for the Denver area, where temperatures will be coolest Saturday. Let's summarize the weekend in one graphic, hourly temperatures are along the top and rainfall chances along the bottom. With 90s Friday, 80s Saturday, and 90s Sunday we maintain about a one in three chance of seei
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Denver Weather: Stormy for city, severe weather risks cover Colorado
By Matt Makens
Thu, Jun 27, 2024
The number of storms that likely impact the state today will increase markedly and many of us have a risk of damage from severe storms. Thankfully, Wednesday's activity didn't produce much by way of severity and we can hope the same for today but I'm prepared with my hail cover just the same. Here's an overall outlook for the chances of a thunderstorm, followed by the areas of greatest concern for damaging storms. In terms of flooding, that risk is likely highest for the mountains. In terms of
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Denver weather: Severe weather develops, watch may be issued this afternoon
By Matt Makens
Wed, Jun 26, 2024
UPDATE: As of 3pm, thunderstorm development is increasing and there is consideration for a severe thunderstorm watch issuance for the metro areas. Conditions are being watched closely to see if any alerts need be issued. ORIGINAL POST: Tuesday hit 100°, the first triple digits since August 2022, but today cools slightly and you'll see more thunderstorms, some damaging with large hail, wind, and heavy rainfall. Today's highs will be closer to the lower and middle 90s. Here's an hourly timeline
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Denver Weather: City hits 100° first time since 2022, storms on the horizon
By Matt Makens
Tue, Jun 25, 2024
As of 3pm, Denver was sitting at 99° - the record for today is 105° (the hottest temperature ever recorded officially here), with storms in the distance to offer a brief cooldown for a few folks. EDIT: As of 4pm, Denver officially hit 100° this afternoon. This is the first 100° day since August 5th, 2022, when the city hit 101; note that there were no 100s last year. The most 100° days on record is from 2012 with 13 days, followed by 2005 with 7, and then 2022 with 5. https://x.com/weather528
Heat Wave
Heat Advisory in place through Tuesday for Denver metro area
By Brendan Heberton
Mon, Jun 24, 2024
Temperatures climbed into the upper 90s on Sunday and are forecast to do so again today and tomorrow before perhaps shaving a few degrees off highs on Wednesday. The heat has been much anticipated , though this offers little relief to hear. The NWS in Boulder has issued a Heat Advisory for the metro area, which extends from this morning through Tuesday evening. A Poor Air Quality
Colorado Weather
Colorado weather: Temperatures heating up as we officially kick off summer
By Brendan Heberton
Wed, Jun 19, 2024
The record heat we saw across the Northeast U.S. in recent days will ease as the ridge across the east breaks down and we see ridging establish itself again in the west. The big ridge in the east was matched by a quite impressive trough across the mountain west as well. The chilly temps meant snow for a good portion of Montana this week, including a foot of the white stuff in Glacier National Park! > Good Morning, Glacier National Park! Some areas of Montana saw a fresh 12” of snow overnight
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Monday weather: Heightened risk of tornadoes across NE CO today, hot & windy in Denver metro area
By Matt Makens
Mon, Jun 17, 2024
The northeastern corner of Colorado has a higher risk of tornadoes today than recent thunderstorm days. This risk is up to 5% from near Sterling toward North Platte, NE. 5% may not sound like much, but it is a significant chance when discussing tornadoes. What does this mean for Denver? Today, we are hot and windy and in dangerous fire conditions should one ignite. Tomorrow, we cool off for the week. This alert map for Colorado includes quite a bit related to heat and wind. We may see thunders
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Denver Weather: Severe storm threat includes chance of damaging hail and tornadoes
By Matt Makens
Fri, Jun 14, 2024
Friday will be cooler, with potentially severe thunderstorms arriving in the afternoon. With these storms comes a risk of damaging hail and wind, so a good idea to have your garden covers ready. Here is the overall look at the odds of getting a thunderstorm today. From that, the areas with the higher risk of damaging storms is here in the yellow shaded region, which does include most of the metro locations. So, anyone east of the mountains may have a rather powerful thunderstorm today, but a