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Weekend Weather Outlook
Thunderstorms will be floating around the next several days but I wouldn't call any single day a washout, which is great for your outdoor plans. Although we may see an isolated severe thunderstorm, that threat is low throughout the next few days. Flooding could be an issue for burn scars and watch out for lightning if you'll be outdoors. Most of the storms will be pretty high off the ground and may give us some strong wind gusts as they pass by. Let's take a closer look at today. Here are the
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For Eastern Colorado, including Denver, a couple of cold fronts and shortwaves keep rain chances and severe storms in forecast
Along with rain chances, a push of cooler air today, and another this evening will mean temperatures across the region will remain below average through at least Monday if not even Tuesday. Highs will top out in the low to mid 80s across the greater Denver area today, with highs only in the mid 70s or so on Sunday. Overnight lows will feel quite cool in some cases, with Denver forecast to drop down to 56°F on both Sunday and Monday morning. Here is the hourly planner for Denver: The seven
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Colorado Weather: Enhanced risk of damaging hail and wind
Enhanced risk of severe weather today for Colorado's Eastern Plains as Denver and the metro areas can see a significant storm, too. As I was walking the pup during lunch, the towers in the distance were rapidly growing. The top of a Cheyenne, Wyoming storm was what caught my attention first, but we had towers developing around our mountains, too. As these storms develop through the afternoon, they move east into an environment that has some ingredients to put together that can lead to large ha
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Denver Weather: Couple rounds of storms possible; severe weather pinpoints the plains
Additional thunderstorms with heavy rainfall possible again across the metro areas Wednesday, with the strongest storms carrying the largest hail over the plains. A weak impulse may generate another batch of storms overnight into Thursday morning. There is not a flood watch currently in effect for the Front Range, as there was the past two days, as the chances for storms carrying that much water decreases slightly. Still, a number of storms will be floating around. As a general setup, here's a
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Colorado weather: Stormy Thursday for Denver, Eastern Plains; Flood Watch issued
Expect more rounds of storms Thursday after this morning's early morning storms move through as energy moves across Colorado later today. For Denver and Colorado Springs, expect chances of storms with the strongest of which to be severe on the Plains. In total, we have a high likelihood for storms today, and the highest chances run through much of the state east of the Divide. Scattered showers and storms moved across the metro areas early this morning will continue to head east (I picked up j
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Colorado weather: Rain chance climbs, temperatures cool
Rain chances increase the next few days and cooler temperatures will come along for a ride, too. For Denver, the highest chance for storms will be Thursday but the city stands a decent chance of hearing thunder today, too. An hourly planner shows you those details through Friday. For today, lightning and wind gusts are the primary hazard around the metro areas. Meanwhile, severe storms on the eastern plains could have hail up to golf ball size and wind gusts to 60 mph along with brief heavy ra
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Denver weather: Cooling off through the end of the week with an increased chance of rain
Denver and the Plains will gradually cool down through Friday following Monday's high of 97°F, which was the hottest temperature of the year so far but did not set a record for the date. Through Monday, Denver is still within the top 20 coldest year-to-date and summer-to-date years on record. We did set some records across the state Monday. > Alamosa did indeed get hotter! Alamosa soared to 95°F at 4:04PM this afternoon🥵 This is 3°F hotter than the previous daily record high temperature fo
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Severe storms possible across the eastern plains of Colorado, isolated storm threat for Denver area
We are tracking a bit better storm chances today across Eastern Colorado, particularly for areas east of the urban corridor. For Fort Collins, Denver, Colorado Springs the storm chance remains on the low side – though we do see a bit of an uptick in those chances today, even for these metro ares. The latest SPC outlook shows that the threat for storms to turn severe will be greatest across the Eastern Plains vs up against the mountains. The great will extend into neighboring states across the
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For Denver and Eastern Colorado, another round of severe storms in the forecast Saturday
Another day and another round of severe storms forecast to roll across Eastern Colorado this afternoon. Some of those could turn severe, with damaging wind, hail, a tornado and locally heavy rain all a possibility with storms that develop later today. For the Denver area, look for highs to top out in the upper 70s to near 80°F, with about a 40 to 50% chance of storms by mid to late afternoon. Storm chances decrease tonight, and will remain on the low side Sunday. The threat for severe weathe
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Colorado weather: Friday's severe weather outlook and weekend forecast
Yesterday's severe weather was focused over eastern and southeastern Colorado. Some locally heavy rain was observed along the northern urban corridor, but no severe storm warnings were issued. While a landspout tornado was observed north of Watkins, all storm-based warnings issued Thursday were focused over the southeastern part of the state which had a very active evening. Below is a look at the warnings issued Thursday by the NWS: And the landspout tornado east of Denver: > Landspout loo
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Colorado weather: Tornado risk increases Thursday, unusually high risk for Denver area
Tornado risks increase substantially across Eastern Colorado for thunderstorms expected later Thursday. In addition, very large hail will be possible. The risk of severe weather has increased in parts of the Denver metro area - higher risks than previous days. Today's risks shouldn't be taken lightly. It is rare for parts of Denver to be in a 5% tornado risk, which the east and south sides are today. > Potential significant weather day across the plains today, with severe storms capable of pr
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Colorado weather: Threat of tornadoes continues, hail chance increases for Wednesday
The chance for thunderstorms continues, along with a similar risk of tornadoes, but the hail threat does increase for today's storms. These threats are shifting south in the latest guidance, and may need to be adjusted farther south than what we have this morning - today's temperatures are very cool for Northern Colorado; the warmer environment well to the south of Denver will have the higher chances for severe storms. Let's take a look at where these elements are most likely, starting with t
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Denver Weather: Tornado risk today covers city and Front Range
There's a risk of damaging thunderstorms today, July 4th, including the highest risk of tornadoes in the country will be along the Front Range and Plains, including Denver, Fort Collins, and Cheyenne. The threat for storms continues throughout the day in several 'waves' of storms that may try to move through. The above image is the environment where tornadoes are most likely to form, but other areas carry a lower threat, not a zero threat. Look at the overall threat of damaging thunderstorms,
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Colorado Weather: Hail and tornadoes possible July 4th
Although Monday is to be relatively quiet, July 4th and Wednesday will bring risks of hail and tornadoes to parts of eastern Colorado, and may include the Denver and Colorado Springs metro areas. Here are the outlook threat levels for Tuesday: And, Wednesday: Again, thunderstorms become much more likely the next two days, including hail, tornado, damaging wind, and isolated flooding threats. For threats across the country: Back here at home, here's an hourly timeline to help give you some gu
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Severe thunderstorms possible for Denver, eastern Colorado Thursday and Friday
All eyes on the sky today as our storm chances increase once more and we see an elevated threat of severe thunderstorms across Eastern Colorado today. The greater severe threat may end up being today vs tomorrow, but both afternoons will feature a good chance of storms across the eastern half of the state, of which some are likely to turn severe. Damaging hail and winds are the greatest threat, but a tornado can not be ruled out. Thursday's forecast Below is a look at thunderstorm probabilit
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Highlands Ranch tornado damage estimated to be EF-1 rating with a 6.3 mile track
The National Weather Service in Boulder has issued their initial damage report for the tornado that ripped through the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch on Thursday. Damage from the tornado is consistent with a EF-1 rated tornado, with peak winds of 97mph and a track of 6.3 mi
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Thursday PM update: Extensive damage across southern Denver metro area from likely tornado, wind, and hail
Parts of the metro area are cleaning up this evening after a powerful thunderstorm moved through Thursday afternoon. Strong winds, large hail, and a probable tornado has produced extensive damager across the area with images pouring in of downed trees in and around Highlands Ranch. Here's the preliminary track: > *Preliminary* Damage Track. This is not the exact track but it should be close. Added points are damage reports we've received so far. Prelim length 6.3 miles. We are evaluating all
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Colorado weather: From tornadoes to hail, the threat of damage and injuries continues
Wednesday was very active across the eastern half of Colorado, with notable reports of large hail and tornadoes throughout the late day. In total, you can visually see the number of warnings the area was dealing with: A number of injuries were reported from Red Rocks while concert-goers fled a severe thunderstorm. As of this post 90 were injured – 7 of which were severe enough to be hospitalized, from Ping-Pong size hail stones there. > 🚨#BREAKING [https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=ha
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Colorado weather: Showers and storms to end the week, Flood Watch in place, a drying trend for the weekend
We're kicking off another afternoon of showers and storms across the state ahead of the weekend will feature, yes, a chance for storms but also a bit of a drying trend – perhaps. A look at the radar shortly afternoon noon today shows those storms building across the area. We'll continue to see plenty of activity across eastern Colorado through the afternoon and evening before things quiet again tonight. In fact, some of these storms are likely to turn severe this afternoon, particularly for
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Colorado Weather: Wildfire smoke, thunderstorms, and warmer temperatures
Wednesday will warm up but will also have a hint of wildfire smoke before later-day thunderstorms and smoke drift east. Of the next three days, today is the driest for the area. For metro areas, here is a look at hourly rain chances: You can see the rapid rise in chances return tomorrow and especially Friday. Overall, the chances for thunderstorms are higher in the north-central mountains to the edge of the metro areas. Brief, but heavy, rain and gusty winds up to 40 to 50 mph can be expected
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Colorado Weather: Thunderstorm chances highest to the south Tuesday
Tuesday's thunderstorm chances are highest across the south, Denver's chance drops as compared to Monday. Speaking of Monday, it brought quite an active day of thunderstorms. Boulder got wacked during lunch as we wrote about with some impressive imagery: Boulder gets pounded with hail and flooding rain midday MondayFlooding and accumulating hail hit Boulder, Colorado Monday, especially inconvenient for those trying to grab a bite for lunch. > This guy attempted to cycle through the flooded ar
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More storms in the forecast for Eastern Colorado, some could be severe
Another active weather day on tap across the region as we head into the latter half of the weekend. Today's storms will feature gusty winds, heavy downpours, hail, and even an isolated tornado. The latest HRRR shows storms building over the foothills by midday, then gradually pushing east across the plains this afternoon and evening. As they do, some storms will become severe. The greatest severe threat looks to be from Denver south along the I-25 corridor, then points southeast. In looking
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Denver Weather: Was a late-show yesterday, do today's thunderstorms follow suit
The lightning show Thursday evening around the Denver area was impressive as severe thunderstorms with hail developed and moved over parts of the city after sunset. > @NWSBoulder @MattMakens @BianchiWeather @daisyrothschild @9NEWSWeather [https://twitter.com/9NEWSWeather?ref_s
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Colorado Weather: Cooling down this weekend with bump in rain chance
Almost to that weekend, which will cool down on Sunday as rain chances increase from Sunday into Monday. For Denver and the greater metro area, the threat of hail and damaging thunderstorms lingers but remains low overall. Kick things off with a general planner: Sunday cools into the 60s to lower 70s versus the 70s and 80s of Friday and Saturday. Whoa, who put the cart in front of the horse?! It's Thursday... Here's a more specific hourly planner for Thursday through Saturday for temperatures
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Denver Area Weather: Tornadoes, funnels, and hail
There were a number of storms over the mountains Tuesday and just a few over the metro areas and plains, but those that did pop up were strong enough to produce a landspout tornado, funnel clouds, and larger hail. Mark Oster spotted a landspout tornado not far from Platteville. A little landspout, probably the same as the previous just a different view,  near Firestone from Chad Flaugher. Cindy Lyons captured this from CR 22 near CR41 looking northeast. Down in/near Aurora: > Just called i