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Detailed Forecast Discussion: After yesterday's storms, today will be a reprieve with Mostly Sunny skies, highs back to near 90 degrees, along with the continued gusty southwest winds. The large mid-level trough is still out to our west today (below), centered over southwestern Idaho. The bulk of the energy today from this system will be to our north and west, …

Detailed Forecast Discussion: What a hot one it was yesterday! Portions of the Plains were in the low to middle 90's, with Fort Morgan topping out the hottest near 101 (below)! Gladly, it will be cooler today but mostly due to the clouds and storm threat. A southern track low pressure system is being pumped up into the state later …

Detailed Forecast Discussion: We have an elevated threat of some late-day storms relative to yesterday, but we also have the heat to talk about today. Let's get straight to our discussion! The trough we talked about in our post Monday for the week ahead has been slower to move into the area relative to its expected arrival. Nevertheless, it will …

MDetailed Forecast Discussion: id-level winds have really picked up compared to the last several days with stronger westerly flow taking over across Colorado aloft. Whereas steering winds had been only 5-10 mph the last few days leading to slow-moving thunderstorms and pockets of flash flooding across eastern Colorado, that concern is no more with 500mb winds increasing to 35-40 mph …

BDetailed Forecast Discussion: oulder set a new daily record high temperature for June 1st yesterday hitting 91°F which is also our warmest temperature thus far in 2020. Denver International Airport hit 93°F but did not set a record. I did a little digging into the record books and found that Denver's record high for June 1st was 96°F from 2002. …

Detailed Forecast Discussion: It's the last day of May and temperatures once again are above average, about 10-12 degrees above where we should be in late May (lower 70's that is!). Yesterday's scattered storms was tied to a shortwave and attendant boundary. That boundary has moved off to our east over the Kansas border (below). However, we continue to remain …

Detailed Forecast Discussion: While we managed to see some storms yesterday, it will be nothing like today and tonight, where we expect a heightened threat of showers and thunderstorms between late afternoon until midnight tonight. It is all thanks to a potent trough of low pressure over northern California (below) that is sending a wave of shortwave energy through Colorado …