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TDetailed Forecast Discussion oday will offer up our best chance of rain for the week as a shortwave trough is passing across the northern Rockies. The timing during the afternoon will work well with solar heating to produce scattered to widespread showers and storms. Convection and storms will pop-up first in the Mountains by early afternoon and then spread eastward …

Detailed Forecast Discussion We finally got some rainfall across much of the state in the last 24 hours. Portions of Colorado picked up a tenth to three quarters of an inch across the Front Range. A nice addition for your lawn if it has dried up! Also good news for the High Country as they also picked up some much …

Detailed Forecast Discussion Likely showers and thunderstorms will exist later today and this evening with a more favorable mid-level pattern. As we saw yesterday, we continue to have a jet streak oriented southwest to northeast from Utah into Wyoming (below). The jet streak is actually a little further south than Friday and could provide some marginal added lift for the …

Detailed Forecast Discussion A good moist flow into Colorado today and the weekend is setting up. A nice southwest to northeast oriented jet stream between Utah and Montana (below) is squeezed between an area of high pressure over Oklahoma and a trough over the Pacific Northwest. Both of these systems on either side of the jet are bringing in a …

ADetailed Forecast Discussion nother warm day is in-store with weak southwest flow across Colorado and slight ridging lingering just to the east of our area. The pattern over the continental United States is a strange one right now. The high pressure center which held for so long over Arizona and New Mexico has shifted north and east into the Great …

YDetailed Forecast Discussion esterday's severe potential was a bit of a bust across the Denver-Boulder area. In fact almost no rain was observed in our immediate forecast domain. As you can see from the 24-hour rainfall totals below, the stronger storms were generally well to our northeast and also to our south around Colorado Springs. My thoughts that it would …

TDetailed Forecast Discussion he stalled cold front that was to our north and east yesterday has sagged back westward overnight and is now pushing through the Metro area. North and east of this frontal boundary, low-level moisture is elevated with dew points in the mid to upper 50's. The moisture is just beginning to settle in now and we could …