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The week starts off rather warm under increasingly strong southwest flow aloft. This will culminate in elevated fire danger on Tuesday with dry and gusty winds in place. The mid to late week period will turn unsettled and much colder with a series of low pressure systems and cold fronts lining up that will bring at least two chances for Front Range rain and snow during the period. Read on for more details.
We hope you enjoyed the taste of summer as temperatures soared into the 70s and 80s the last several days because we will be paying for that warmth in short order as much colder temperatures and snowflakes take over the Front Range to end the week. A tricky forecast is set to unfold over the area Friday into Saturday with rain changing to wet spring snow for everyone. Up to 10″ could fall in the higher Foothills communities with even slushy accumulations on the table for the Denver-Boulder area. Let’s discuss the latest on the approaching winter storm.
March 2023 concluded as the coldest March in more than 50 years in Boulder and was our fifth consecutive month with below normal temperatures — this winter has been atypically long and brutal. Despite heavy snow fueled by atmospheric river events in the Mountains, very little precipitation reached east of the Continental Divide during March with fire danger and blowing dust increasing substantially by month’s end. Here’s a quick and colorful graphical recap of our weather during March and how it relates to climatology.
Following another elevated fire danger day on Monday, a late-season snowstorm will trek from the Rockies into the Dakotas in the coming days. While the brunt of this massive winter storm will be felt in the Mountains and well to our north in Wyoming, there are enough ingredients coming together to bring light snow to the Front Range during this time as well. Another chance of snow may develop on Wednesday. Unseasonably cold temperatures will transition back above normal by week’s end with a warm and dry outlook shaping up for much of the extended.
After widespread snow and unseasonably cold weather on Monday, things quiet down for the midweek period with a nice warm-up headed to the Front Range. A secondary storm system will reach the area Thursday into Friday with Mountain snowfall ramping up again along with another chance of snow in the Denver area to close out the month of March. Read on for all the details.
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