Premium BoulderCAST Daily – Wed 11/04/26 | Mountain Snow Returns Today, But Denver Stays Dry

Happy Wednesday, everyone! A compact but fairly dynamic low pressure system is crossing Colorado today, bringing the state's next meaningful shot of precipitation later this afternoon and tonight as several favorable forcing mechanisms come together. Early morning GOES-East water vapor imagery shows the center of the low positioned just west of Salt Lake City in far northwestern Utah, with the …

Premium BoulderCAST Daily – Tue 11/03/26 | Drying Out Across Boulder and Denver as Sunshine Returns

The stubborn closed upper low that has been responsible for several days of unsettled weather and historic flooding across the Southwest is finally pulling away from the region. As of Tuesday morning, the center of circulation is located over central Kansas, though just enough wrap-around moisture remains on the backside of the system to generate a few isolated rain showers …

This Week in Colorado Weather: November 2, 2026

Parts of southwest Colorado have picked up 15 to 20 inches of rain in the last 60 days, and this weekend’s storm pushed rivers across the Four Corners to historic levels with devastating results. Here on the Front Range, southwest flow kept us mostly dry again, with Sunday evening’s showers adding up to about a tenth of an inch.

The colder back half of that storm reaches us Monday. A cold front moving through this morning brings our best chance of rain from this system, though some parts of the Denver area are better positioned than others. Snow is on the way for the high country, temperatures will below normal, and another storm is approaching later this week. Here’s what to expect.

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Premium BoulderCAST Daily – Sun 11/01/26 | A Storm System Takes Aim on Colorado

Astrong storm system presently over California and the Great Basin will race east-northeastward over the next 24-36 hours, riding overhead before exiting into the Central Plains and Midwest. The system will bring heavy precipitation to southwest Colorado, as well as heavy snow in the southwest mountains. For the Plains, the details are not as clear cut, but we'll likely see …

From Extreme Drought to Record Flooding: Something Extraordinary is Happening in Southwest Colorado This Fall

After months of worsening drought, southwest Colorado has flipped the script in dramatic fashion this fall. From Pagosa Springs to Durango to the entire San Juans, some locations have picked up an astonishing 15 to 20 inches of precipitation in just 60 days, erasing extreme drought conditions but ultimately triggering one of the region’s most significant flood events on record. What turned a parched landscape into a flood disaster in only eight weeks? We dive into the remarkable sequence of tropical moisture surges, the key role of a strengthening record El Niño, and why the same pattern that drenched southwest Colorado left Boulder and Denver largely high and dry.

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Premium BoulderCAST Daily – Sat 10/31/26 | A Foggy Start to Halloween

The Saturday starts off with a foggy note across the Front Range. Dense Fog Advisories are in effect until mid-morning across the Denver Metro. Expect sunshine to break out with temperatures close to the lower 60s this afternoon. A number of other weather alerts are in effect for the west and southwest part of Colorado, including Winter Weather Advisories, Flood …

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