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ADetailed Forecast Discussion: strong ridge of high pressure will continue its dominance today over northeast Colorado. The center of the high is located in portions of Nebraska, with the monsoonal moisture plume currently flowing into Arizona and Utah. The hot air associated with this high pressure is creating quite the smörgåsbord of heat-related weather advisories from Montana to the Gulf …

Detailed Forecast Discussion: Sunday will start off with a slight chance of a morning rain shower, which is rather unusual, but the HRRR model is suggesting a few very weak showers across the forecast area through mid-morning.  With dry conditions in place perhaps nothing more than a little virga will result.  Then we'll warm up to near 90 with they …

LDetailed Forecast Discussion: ow pressure that was over Texas yesterday will drift westward today into western New Mexico and portions of eastern Arizona, where heavy rainfall and flash flooding will be possible. This low pressure system has a trough axis tied to it. The trough axis pushed through last night. Temperatures behind the trough today will be a few degrees …

TroughDetailed Forecast Discussion: axis will be present today from southwest Colorado into South Dakota. In addition, a trough of low pressure will be over the Texas panhandle. This system will be moving westward into New Mexico later today and tomorrow. This system will be spreading increased moisture into New Mexico, as well as central and western Colorado today. There will …

SDetailed Forecast Discussion: lightly drier air has worked into northeast Colorado this morning as the monsoon plume slides just a bit further south and west. This can be seen in this morning's GOES-East water vapor animation. The deepest moisture is now across western and particularly southwestern portions of the state. This shift is related to the large-scale high pressure which …

ADetailed Forecast Discussion: subtle but important pulse of monsoon moisture will be passing through the region today offering up our best chance of rainfall for the week! The mid-level water vapor animation below shows that the plume of monsoon moisture, which has been well to the west the last several days, has finally worked into the Front Range. The eastward …

TDetailed Forecast Discussion: he axis of the ridge will tilt and rotate slightly eastward today before completely flattening out and weakening in the coming days. The center of the high is located in southwest Colorado with the flow of monsoon moisture beginning to return to the Western Slope. There will also be a slight uptick in moisture for the Denver …