We’ve entered the month of May and Spring is now in full-swing. We review May’s climatology and highlight a few aspects of the weather to watch in what is typically our gloomiest month of the year.
We’ve entered the month of May and Spring is now in full-swing. We review May’s climatology and highlight a few aspects of the weather to watch in what is typically our gloomiest month of the year.
Mother Nature does some of her best work this of year! No other place and time can offer the extremely rapid changes in weather like Front Range Colorado can during the month of April. We take a look at how Boulder went from near 80 degrees on Sunday afternoon to a blanket of snow in just over 24 hours.
Through the day yesterday, models trended slightly warmer for the storm system as it targets northeast Colorado Monday evening and night. We had hoped that the overnight model runs would reverse these changes, but this unfortunately does not appear to be the case. In lieu of this, we are left with a warmer overall storm…one which has numerous sources of lift and plenty of moisture to squeeze out significant precipitation across the Metro area, but is lacking in the cold air department. This will ultimately make for a very tricky forecast across the Boulder and Denver area this evening and tonight. We discuss our concerns, potential impacts, and provide our snowfall forecast map.
Considering how warm and beautiful the weather has been of late, it’s a little shocking that we are now talking snow to end the month of April. But alas, this is the norm for Front Range Colorado. We provide our preliminary thoughts on big changes in the weather headed our way Monday, including significant snow in the Foothills and lesser amounts for Boulder and Denver as well.
A cool and dreary Monday will give way to a generally pleasant rest of the week with warming temperatures. We also discuss the slim chance of seeing additional snowfall this season.
This week will feature generally warm weather, but there will be periods of cooler weather and some precipitation mixed in.
Rain and snow return to the forecast Friday and Saturday, but better weather lies ahead for Sunday. Read on for our updated forecast covering the entire weekend.
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