The Forecast Video for this Week
In Brief:
Abnormally warm weather for a few days, then a sharp cool down to normal, but dry conditions.
Thursday Update:
Just a quick mid-week update... after a small chance of showers (snow showers??) Thursday PMN, we warm up to abnormally warm (lower 70's highs!) at the start of next week. A strong (but dry) cold front arrives Tuesday to knock us down to just a few degrees below normal for once. Still, precipitation is hard to come by for another week along I-25.
End Thursday Update.
Forecast Discussion:
You should be outside taking a walk. .. it is fantastically warm this weekend (records may be met or set at DIA- Figure 1). A trough approaches and settles in over the west giving us more zonal (west to east) and northwest-ish flow. This pattern change brings in a number of weak cold fronts (blue dashed lines) that takes our high temperatures down to or just a bit above normal (rather than a LOT above normal, which is in the lower 50s right now).
The Longer Range Forecast:
The next real "storm" will bring snow to the mountains, but only very small rain shower chances to the Plains Tuesday PM and Wednesday. This is in response to a short wave trough (red line in Figure 2) passing early in the week. Mountain locations in Colorado should pick up a fair amount of overall precipitation (Figure 3) and will mostly fall as snow (Figure 4). There ARE rain chances along I-25 early in the week as the cool down takes place, but amounts should remain light.
