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Warm and sunny now, rainy Easter Sunday All is quiet to end the week in Colorado. A formidable-looking ridge of high pressure is building across the Rockies today, with dry, subsident and warm air moving across the state. Highs will climb into the low to middle 70's under mostly sunny skies. Not a bad conclusion to the week! If you look …

A windy day of transition Today will be a day of change as we progress from the unsettled weather yesterday to a quiet and very warm late week and early weekend. A weak cold front and/or outflow boundary moved through after midnight last night. Maybe you didn't notice, but preceding this, a few thunderstorms actually formed across the Thornton and …

Chance of rain showers Today will offer a minor chance of precipitation throughout the day for the Metro area. The main Pacific storm system has progressed into central New Mexico this morning as a closed 500 mb low pressure (see below).  Some energy is present to the north of this across Colorado, all ahead of an approaching trough axis which …

Trending unsettled the next few days... The weather today across our region will actually be fairly decent. As we discussed in our weekly outlook yesterday, things are trending more unsettled as the week progresses due to the approaching Pacific storm system to our west. Colorado will still be in the warm southwest flow for one more day, but clouds will be …

We end the weekend on the warmer side of things! The upper-level pattern is shown below over the western United States. A jet streak is positioned to our north and west from Oregon to Wyoming. This jet streak will be moving further east this afternoon into this evening. As it does so, it will create an inverted trough over Colorado …

Trough axis still making its way through today. The system from yesterday has pulled east into central Texas (below). Meanwhile, a trough axis is present northeast to southwest from eastern Wyoming, through western Colorado, and over northeast Arizona. This will pass through this afternoon and evening mostly unscathed, but will give some lift for some isolated snow/rain showers. We'll start …

Happy Friday! After a quieter day yesterday, the atmosphere gets active again to end the week. This time, there is a southern track system, shown below. Wednesday's snow storm is now up in Minnesota. A secondary trough is now over southern New Mexico today and tonight. While it is far south from our region, weak shortwaves embedded in the larger-scale …