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Denver ForecastRain and snow today, weekend system trending down
By Luke Victor
Thu, Apr 03, 2025
An active weather pattern continues across Colorado. We're seeing relatively calm conditions this morning, with some scattered snow showers in the southwest quadrant of the state. This ripple of energy will slowly slide east throughout the day today, eventually setting up showers for the front range...
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Colorado weather: Rain, snow, and generally unsettled through the weekend
By Brendan Heberton
Tue, Apr 01, 2025
Looking at the forecast through the remainder of the week, the word "unsettled" comes to mind. We'll see rain, snow, mixed precipitation, and of course sun off and on through the weekend. Here's the rather damp outlook for Denver from the NWS: For today, the focus will be rain for a lot of us, but mountain snow will cause tough travel conditions across the higher elevations of the state, and we may have enough snow/slush to deal with south of the city. Here is a look at potential slower travel
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Colorado Weather: Waves of rain, thunder this weekend, some snow possible
By Luke Victor
Fri, Mar 28, 2025
Hello weather friends! Our first rainy system of the spring is on the way! If we break down the important bits: 1) Several waves of rain showers are likely 2) Some lightning & thunder is possible 3) SOME snow is possible as the system pivots out Sunday, but those chances seem limited... Let's get right into it, shall we? We're kicking things off, as I often like to do, with the 500mb charts. This gives us a very clear indication of where calm vs unsettled weather is planning on taking shape
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Weather5280 Insider: Seasonal forecast update, September 2024
By Brian Bledsoe
Mon, Sep 09, 2024
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Weather5280 Insider: Extended outlook as we inch toward the cold season
By Brian Bledsoe
Thu, Aug 15, 2024
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Weather5280 InsiderWeather5280 Insider: Warm end to March, active first half of April?
By Luke Victor
Wed, Mar 26, 2025
Hey all, the weather has been really quiet lately, and as such, there hasn't been a whole bunch to update you on. To start things off, this week has been an absolute treat! Winds have died down and we've warmed up quite a bit! Responsible for that, is this thing below: A significant fold in the jet pattern, setting...
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Denver Weather: What to know this week, from 70s to possible snow showers
By Matt Makens
Mon, Mar 24, 2025
Alright, let's get you prepped for the week and weekend ahead when showers may return. Here's your quick weather rundown, a Monday briefing - if you will. Early Week: Expect pleasant, spring-like conditions. We're looking at mostly sunny skies and warming temperatures. Highs are forecast to be in the 60s Monday and Tuesday, then reaching into the 70s Wednesday. So get ready for some nice days. It will be a great time to get out for lunch, or any after work activities or take the pups for a rai
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Colorado Weather: Fire danger Monday and Tuesday, snow Tuesday night?
By Luke Victor
Mon, Mar 17, 2025
Hope y'all had a good weekend! We should stay mild for Monday – unfortunately we'll combine that warmth with some strong winds, leading to widespread fire danger. Wind gusts are ahead of our next cold front which will keep us windy Tuesday, with snow possible Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Let's break down the details. First off: quite the rollercoaster on the 10 day temp charts. You can see the mild air in play early this week. We'll see cooler temps with the front midweek... and way
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Colorado Weather: Possible Bomb Cyclone and a Lunar Eclipse
By Luke Victor
Thu, Mar 13, 2025
IMPORTANT TO NOTE: There are a few factors which we'll discuss here that should prevent significant front range, I-25 and plains impacts like we've seen with bomb cyclones in the past. A lot to talk about today so let's get right into it! We are still looking at a rapidly developing storm system for Friday over the central high plains. This storm system has the potential to drop from ~1000mb, to 976mb, over a 24 hour period, which would constitute a "bomb cyclone". Essentially, we are seeing
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Colorado weather: Mild start to the week, but keep an eye on the forecast
By Brendan Heberton
Sun, Mar 09, 2025
We are well into the month of March now – Denver's snowiest month on average – and moving along quickly. Thus far, March 2025 hasn't delivered much of any snow for the Mile High City, and for the next several days at least I don't see a lot of reason to believe that'll change! In fact, the next four days or so are set feature absolutely beautiful temperatures along the Front Range, with highs in the mid 60s to low 70s expected through about Thursday. The blend of models (below) is a bit on t
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Mountain snow into Thursday – what about along the Front Range?
By Luke Victor
Thu, Mar 06, 2025
Hello weather friends, we're launching into another wave of action across Colorado. Thankfully we'll have less wind this time! Let's jump right into the charts: Our next wave of energy is already pushing onshore of California as of Wednesday evening. This system will push east-southeast across the four corners, coming as a split of two areas of energy. The northern split will influence weather in the mountains as early as Wednesday night into Thursday morning, leading to increasing snow across
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Wind storm moves east, another system moves in Thursday
By Luke Victor
Wed, Mar 05, 2025
A bit of a complex storm setup with this last one . A few key features of this took a little too long to ramp up, yielding lower snowfall totals than what was expected. Regardless of snow totals, the wind was an absolute nightmare to deal with on Tuesday. Colorado Springs was the strongest report I was able to find just picking at local airport data. Definitely some wicked stuff out there. T
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Spring storm update: Blizzard Warning expands for Eastern Plains
By Brian Bledsoe
Mon, Mar 03, 2025
The graphic below shows where the current Blizzard Warning is located. It essentially encompasses the Palmer Divide, I-70 Corridor east of Denver, and parts of the east/northeast Plains and northeastward. There remains a great deal of uncertainty as to how much snow will fall Monday night into Tuesday. However, we continue to stress this message...you won't be able to measure it, and it won't take much snow at all to cause blizzard conditions. Why? Because we know for certain that the wind is
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Colorado weather: From high winds to heavy snow, early week storm will have a bit of everything
By Brendan Heberton
Sun, Mar 02, 2025
We've flipped the calendar to March, and like clockwork we have rather classic setup for wind and snow getting set to fly through the state early this coming week. While the devil is in the details, some folks will should expect an impactful event Monday night into Tuesday, with the greatest confidence for this along the Palmer Divide between Denver and Colorado Springs and the adjacent eastern plains. Here we already have a Winter Storm Watch in place. It goes into effect Monday evening and c
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Colorado weather: Snow and wind possible next week
By Luke Victor
Fri, Feb 28, 2025
Happy Friday and what an end of the week AND weekend that we have in store! Temps should have no problem getting well into the 50s, with plenty of low 60s around too. Getting out shouldn't be a problem at all, but much like the last few days, gusty winds at times are possible each afternoon. Winds will probably hover around 10-20 mph. Now, for the elephant in the room... A pretty potent storm will crash on shore of the western United States Sunday night into Monday morning. As we move thro
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Beautiful winter weather ahead, signs of *something* next week
By Luke Victor
Mon, Feb 24, 2025
Hey all, just wanted to throw a brief update for you. As we've mentioned we are sitting pretty this week! If you enjoyed Sunday's weather, you've got that copy and paste through the weekend. Might run into a tiny speed bump on Wednesday, but even then, that gives us better weather than what we have had for most of this month. As the ridge maxes out later in the week, that's probably when we see the warmest temperatures. Almost like a wave cresting in the ocean, what goes up, must come down. Yo
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Upper low dumps snow in the foothills, sharp cutoffs along I-25
By Luke Victor
Sat, Feb 22, 2025
Hey all! Foothills and Palmer Divide classic last night! That slow-ish moving upper level low had no trouble getting started in the late afternoon Thursday and really picked up steam once the sunset. Look at that firehose of moisture that slammed up against the hills overnight! I captured this video below last night in Colorado Springs as the first wave of energy moved through the Pikes Peak Region. Kicked us around good for about an hour or two before it shut down for most of the night. 103 r
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Snow returns Thursday evening, could impact commute
By Luke Victor
Thu, Feb 20, 2025
Hey all! More winter weather is on the way today, which means it's time to make another post! We're working our way out of a pretty stiff round of cold air that brought subzero temperatures to Denver Wednesday morning. We won't be AS cold today, but another quick-moving system should shake things up by Thursday evening, bringing us another cold front and some of us a pretty solid shot for snowfall. Before we dive in, check out these frigid temperatures across the high plains this morning. No
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Seasonal Forecast Update
By Brian Bledsoe
Wed, Feb 19, 2025
Current La Niña Status The map below shows the current sea surface temperature anomalies as relative to the global mean sea surface temperature anomaly. It is a metric that better represents the current strength of the particular ENSO (El Niño/La Niña) phase. The blue shading along the equator clearly shows the presence of a La Niña. The graphic below shows the sea surface temperature anomaly trend since November. Since mid-November, you can see that this La Niña event maxed out around Chris
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Denver Weather: Dangerous cold east, city drops to near 0 with snow chances
By Matt Makens
Mon, Feb 17, 2025
We have a cold setup for the week, albeit not at all cold relative to others within the region. Denver will come to near 0° the next two mornings, but some folks will fall to 40-below-zero across the northern US. So, when we write about a cold outlook for Denver anyone say in North Dakota has a right to be ticked at us... here is the forecast for Bismarck: So, when you look at our forecast it hardly feels right to say we are going to be cold. In both those forecasts from the NWS, those are ac
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Colorado Weather: Convective snow likely Saturday afternoon
By Luke Victor
Sat, Feb 15, 2025
Hey everyone! We have a pretty interesting setup for you on Saturday afternoon. You think back to summertime around here and how certain days/weather patterns can produce daily afternoon thunderstorms. Well, today is a pretty similar set up to one of those days, except it's cold enough for snow. As much, the likelihood for thunder is very low, but NOT totally out of the question for maybe a rumble in the Pikes Peak Region. With the convective nature of these afternoon snow showers, we could,
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Colorado Weather: Snow hits mountains, some for the metro areas this weekend
By Matt Makens
Thu, Feb 13, 2025
One of the busiest ski weekends is here and there'll be lots of new snow to play in, but there could also be travel issues getting to and from the slopes. A quick overview of what we are talking about here is a series of waves to move through, each bringing periods of heavy snowfall. Here is the alert map showing the hazardous weather areas to end the week. Those alerts are the combination of heavy snow and wind. We can get more specific with just travel conditions and the roadway impact here:
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