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The cutoff low pressure system as of 6 am this morning shows the circulation near the Colorado/Kansas border on satellite imagery. This system will be slowly lifting east-northeast into central Nebraska this afternoon and evening, leading to improving weather conditions as early as this afternoon. The morning radar ending at 6 am showed the persistent wrap-around precipitation over the Front …

Another disturbance in the flow with a persistent trough to our west will advect through the area this evening. While the deepest lift is located to our northeast, we continue to have a slight chance of some early evening showers and thunderstorms over the Denver Metro. But before that happens, it'll be partly to mostly cloudy with highs in the …

The trough out west will continue to be in place for the weekend, especially today. It will keep our atmosphere in an active pattern. However, at the surface, the chance of wet weather will be much lower than what it was compared to this past week. The reason for this is a more westerly warm, dry, downslope flow on the …

The trough out west over the central to northern Great Basin continues to churn as we end the week. Another surge of energy will stream northeast this afternoon and evening into northeast Colorado and parts of Wyoming, Nebraska, and South Dakota. At the same time, a frontal boundary will be located over the northern Plains. Convergence along this boundary with …

Today will be more of the same across Colorado thanks to the stagnant blocking pattern across the nation right now. The mid-level height patterns from yesterday (left) and today (right) are shown below. Notice any differences? There are few if any as this truly is a stalled-out pattern in the US right now! A closer inspection of just today shows …

The pesky omega block will continue across the nation through most of the week! Why is is called an omega block you ask? Well, omega comes from the height (pressure) pattern it entails which looks like to the Greek letter "omega", and block because the highly meridional nature of this pattern tends to block up and stagnate weather systems in …