Hey folks! Hope you had a good holiday weekend. We enter a new week strong stretch of summer heat. A big ridge of high pressure is expected to set up shop across the desert southwest, as seen below: This ridging extends into southern Canada, with a few areas of unsettled weather of note across parts of the central US and northwest coast of California. This looks about as classic of a summer weather pattern as you can get with the main storm track way up in central British Columbia. While th

Happy 4th folks! The weather remains in a bit of an identity crisis as Colorado remains warm, but not overly hot. To go along with that, we have some spotty storm chances for the holiday weekend. Let's get a quick rundown of the forecast: Looking at a wide view, we don't see a really dominant "summer" type weather pattern for most of the lower-48. Some weak troughing giving us the unsettled weather this weekend across the west, some ridging near the Great Lakes, and a fast moving trough over th

In brief: Hot and mostly dry weather continues across Denver and the Front Range through midweek. Thunderstorm chances increase Thursday and linger through the Fourth of July weekend. In detail: We're in for more hot weather across the Denver area today, with highs climbing into the mid-90s under sunny skies. A few isolated thunderstorms may develop over the mountains and foothills by midday and could drift onto the plains by late afternoon. These storms will be spotty, but if one rolls thro