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After the soggy start to the week, we resume "business as usual" for the summer beginning today. Sunny skies and warm temperatures are on the horizon as high pressure sets up in the northern Rockies. This pattern will cut off the monsoon for the time being with much drier northwest flow taking hold over our state. Yesterday's rain-maker has pushed …

Yesterday's widespread rainfall came together about as expected during the afternoon, evening and overnight hours. The heaviest rain was indeed south of Denver, with places like Aurora, Centennial and Highlands Ranch seeing brief flash flooding as 1.5 to 2.5" of rain fell in less than one hour. https://twitter.com/BoulderCAST/status/1559299931646488576 Areas north of Interstate 70 primarily saw just prolonged light rainfall which …

Amid-level shortwave trough will track across Wyoming this afternoon and tonight, reaching portions of South Dakota and Nebraska come early Monday. As this trough moves in the easterly direction, a trough axis to its south will invigorate showers and thunderstorms over the higher terrain and over the Plains once again this afternoon/evening. Ahead of any storms, highs will remain warm …

Ridge of high pressure at mid-levels will remain over eastern Colorado to western Kansas today, but continue to slowly edge eastward. As it does so, deeper moisture will start to spread east from Utah into western and central Colorado. As a result, storm chances today increase to 10-20%, but primarily for areas west of I-25. The best chance will be …

Tridge continues to hold across the region today and tonight, keeping us in that hot and dry weather pattern we have experienced this week. The ridge today settles over the Colorado/Kansas border, but does not move much, if any, tonight. As a result, highs will top out again in the low to middle 90s, hottest over the Denver Metro. Storm …

Yesterday's official high temperature in Boulder was 92°F, with just about everyone elsewhere in the Denver Metro area reaching the lower to middle 90s as well. The map below shows the approximate high temperatures from Tuesday. Yesterday was Boulder's 34th 90-degree day of the year. To put this into perspective, the normal amount we expect to see for the entire …