⦁❶⦁ High pressure located in southwestern Colorado continues to dominate the western half of the country
⦁❷⦁ Record highs are almost guaranteed for our area Thursday and Friday in the middle to upper 90’s
⦁❸⦁ Thick smoke will remain across the area through Friday evening but could lighten up on Saturday
⦁❹⦁ A weak cold front will bring our temperatures down a little this weekend with isolated late-day rain showers
Happy Labor Day! This week will feature wildfire smoke building back into the region causing visibilities to deteriorate, especially Monday through Wednesday. With the exception of Tuesday, most of the week will see above average temperatures, even potentially record-breaking ones late in the week. All is dry, though unsettled weather increases over the upcoming weekend into early next week.
The focus for this week’s weather discussion lies in the tropics. Category 4 Hurricane Ida made landfall into Louisiana on Sunday, but more importantly for Colorado, the remnants of once Hurricane Nora in the Pacific will reach our neck of the woods later this week. What will this surge of tropical moisture bring to the Front Range and when do we expect the thick smoke to begin to clear out again? Read on to find out.
It has been fairly dry most of the summer with the monsoon moisture plume largely staying to our west. Over the last eight weeks, Denver has officially reported less than a half inch of rainfall which is far below normal. Not surprisingly, drought has now returned to portions of northeast Colorado. The week ahead will offer little reprieve from this dry pattern as temperatures remain above normal in the 90’s with just one day of decent rain chances to look forward to. Wildfire smoke will be fairly bearable, however, as a northward storm track and resulting atmospheric flow will keep the worst of it away from the Front Range.
We sure sound like a broken record, but the week will begin hot and smoky across the Front Range. As we head into midweek and especially beyond, we’re expecting a big drop temperatures, as well as increasing chances for wet weather. Thick, elevated smoke will likely linger through the week as massive upstream fires continue to rage across the Pacific Northwest and parts of Canada.
What a wild weekend in weather it was across the Front Range! A daunting wall of wildfire smoke took over the entire state of Colorado on Saturday and has blanketed our area ever since. When will the smoke clear out and our air quality improve, how hot will it get this week, and what the heck happened to the monsoon? Read on to find out.
Sure…it has been fairly smoky already this week across our area, but it’s about to get a whole lot worse! An extremely smoke-laden airmass is poised to invade the entire state of Colorado late Friday night. The cause? An upstream low pressure system has been hard at work gathering up literally ALL the smoke from massive wildfires burning in California, the Pacific Northwest and southern British Columbia…and guess what? That low pressure system is headed our way!
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