So far so good since the snow around Thanksgiving. We look to continue a fairly tame pattern through the end of this week and into part of the weekend.

THE BIG PICTURE

The predominant weather pattern across the United States features large scale troughing over the east, and significant ridging across the northwest. Colorado finds itself caught in the middle of these two regimes.

Our weather has been mainly a dry, northwesterly flow with some fronts here or there to keep temps up and down a bit, but not too much.

We are not expecting any big changes for the next few days as this weather scheme continues.

Looks like we'll see slightly cooler conditions for Thursday as the weak upper level low over northern Mexico strengthens a bit... but you can see a quick rebound Friday and beyond.

By the weekend, we'll see west coast ridging break down a bit as a fast moving trough moves in off the Pacific. Weather data has been struggling a bit on how to handle this system – for now it looks like it'd arrive with a tree-swaying cold front Sunday night, with some snow potential for the Front Range... at the moment, there really isn't a ton of confidence in that system just yet.

Temperature anomaly maps comparing Sunday to Monday really tell the story:

Highs go from 15-20 degrees above normal, to what could be as cold as 10-20 degree BELOW normal.

Suffice it to say: it likely feels a lot different out here beyond the weekend.

SNOW PROSPECTS

I don't really have much to say about this one just yet. If it would snow, it probably falls mostly on Monday...

Data from the EURO ensemble isn't terribly impressive... and once again the northern Front Range can't seem to get ANYTHING going. For Denver, even an inch might be a stretch. At this range, it looks like the foothills in the southern I-25 corridor and some of the northern Continental Divide mountains have the best shot... and even then it's not looking crazy.

Will this be one worth monitoring? Probably... bigger question is if we can see an intensification/consolidation of this storm. Right now, it's coming through too fast, and disorganized to really get much damage done.

Of course, if anything changes we'll let you know. For now though, not shaping up too bad as we continue into mid-December.