I first started writing about Colorado's weather in the fall of 2008, but my love of weather and forecasting came years before that. Nearly all of my earliest and most frequented memories as a kid involve the weather. Hail storms of the early 90s, watching torrential ‘monsoonal’ downpours from the front porch, equal parts hating and loving thunder, formidable blizzards (1997, 2003), and of course in the later years chasing severe storms across the High Plains. For the October blizzard of 1997

Hey everybody! Just poppin' our heads in real quick to let you know about the week of weather ahead... and once again, we're not talking about anything, whether it be heat or storms, that will blow our socks off. Let's take a look below: You can pretty clearly see the WPC forecast favoring a marginal risk for flash flooding Today, Tuesday and Wednesday. This includes all of the front range, and west into the foothills and continental divide. I've dropped in the HRRR projection for Monday and T

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: Storm chances Friday afternoon for northeast Colorado, especially east of Denver. The weekend turns hot and mostly dry, with highs in the 90s across the Denver metro. In detail: We’re heading into a hot and mostly dry stretch of weather, but first, we’ll need to watch for a few thunderstorms Friday afternoon and evening. Friday: After lunch, scattered clouds will increase across the Denver area. While most of the metro will stay dry, a few gusty showers or storms could develop during

The weather has had a bit of an identity crisis in Colorado the last couple of weeks. There's been some warmer days, there's been some cooler days, heck, there's even been some severe weather – but outside of the Elbert County tornado on May 18, it's been tough to find other standout weather. That's not always a bad thing! Freakish hail events, May blizzards, heat waves... the list can go on and on this time of year. So what do we have coming out way this week? This is the main weather pat

2025 seems to be zipping on by as the unofficial start to the Summer season is already here. Memorial Day Weekend is unfortunately looking pretty wet at times across Colorado. Here's the latest details: A very weak, and sort of nebulous weather pattern looks to set up shop this weekend. At this point, our most affected days look like Sunday and Monday. As you can see on the maps above, the 500mb charts aren't even really showing a significant storm system, but just enough (what I like to call

Quite a potent cold front Wednesday evening! Check out the satellite loops below and the significant push of dust which moved across eastern Colorado and Western Kansas. This front also featured a quick round of showers and thunderstorms for northeast Colorado... to go along with that 40-50 mph gusty winds for many. Quite the raw and uncomfortable evening to say the least. For today we'll see mainly 60s and 70s – and a bit of a breeze will remain. Some lingering mountain snow showers will tape

In the end, a pretty fantastic week for precipitation across the urban corridor and much of southern Colorado, as soaking rains and heavy snow brought (as always) much needed moisture to the region. At Denver International Airport roughly 1.0" of rain was recorded, with upwards of 1.5" of precipitation for many areas along and west of I-25! Across the forever-dry Southeast Plains, widespread totals of 1 - 2" of rain – amazing. Snowfall totals were equally impressive, with some locations pick

A significant area of low pressure is expected to move into the four corners starting Sunday night, bringing impacts to Colorado potentially through Wednesday morning. While this spring was fairly tame with respect to these types of systems, turning the page into May looks to be pulling no punches! Let's time out these storm system, as it looks to come through in two main waves. WAVE #1 – Late Sunday night through Monday evening For now, Sunday morning is looking dry for most of the state.

Our first round of severe thunderstorms this spring rumbled over the eastern plains Wednesday afternoon and evening – some of those storms creating picturesque views in the Pikes Peak Region. We saw a fairly significant supercell that passed along the southern fringe of the Palmer Divide, impacting areas along HWY 24, and eventually moving north towards I-70; this was our one big storm of the day. For a time, it also had a tornado warning to go along with it. We're not done there either! More

Hey all – for those looking for something quick, I've got a brief description below: THE MEAT & POTATOES: Strong winds and fire danger here on Thursday afternoon will be replaced QUICKLY by a strong cold front around sunset tonight. That cold front will swing temperatures from the mid 70s into the mid 40s in just a few hours. Clouds will increase through the night and with snow increasing in the mountains around midnight, and around the Denver Metro by sunrise Friday. Snow lasts for most of the

We're in rollercoaster season for weather along the Front Range, no doubt about it. We had record heat on Saturday, and spotty banded snowfall early this morning. This afternoon will feel pleasantly like spring, with little memory of snow to be found. Saturday's high of 86°F in Denver set a new record high for the date, beating the old one of 85°F that was set in 2023. > Denver International Airport observed a high of 86 degrees this afternoon, which is a new record for today. It breaks the p

Ok... maybe heat wave is a bit of a stretch... BUT, it will be VERY warm the next few days, continuing into the weekend. Let's start with the overall setup: Above is a look at lower-level atmospheric temperatures averaged out over the next 5 days. An impressive ridge will set up bringing several days of well above average temperatures. Our warmest day looks like it will be Saturday, where highs will likely run 15-25 degrees above normal! Here are potential high temperatures for Saturday, ac

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 and I-25. Above is the setup for Thursday morning with moisture pinwheeling in from southwest to northeast. Below is the evolution of the weak shortwave, with some areas of convection that are no

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

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 up a nice ridge of high pressure along the Canadian Rockies, stretch down into the western high plains. That ridge hanging out around 18,000 ft aloft trickles down to our weather h

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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