In Brief:
Winds and warming temperatures, a small chance of snow/rain early in the week.
Thursday Update.
Issued: 4:51 AM Dec. 14, 2023 – National Weather Service
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM MST THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Visibility less than a quarter mile in dense fog.
* WHERE...Fort Collins, Boulder and the western suburbs of Denver,
Denver, Castle Rock, and Greeley.
* WHEN...Until 10 AM MST this morning.
* IMPACTS...Low visibility could make driving conditions hazardous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of
distance ahead of you.
End Thrusday update.
Forecast Discussion:
I called for 0-1 inch around Longmont and we got 2-3 inches last night (Figure 1). My forecast was a bust, but that is more moisture for us (about 0.20 inch).
Winds coming off the Rockies will be pretty high today out on the Plains (Figure 3). With the downslope flow, we'll warm to the 50's Sunday (Figure 2). A cold front arrives Monday evening (blue line) bringing a wimpy chance of precipitation along I-25 (blue dotted box).
The Longer Range Forecast:
Beyond that system, it looks like the weather gets quite quiet with slightly above normal temperatures (Figure 2). Snowfall over the next 5 days will be confined to north central Colorado, central, and southeast Colorado (Figure 4). The precipitation map shows that what does fall will be mainly as snow (Figure 5).
