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The 500 mb pattern for today indicates the presence of a ridge of high pressure to our southeast. We'll have one more mostly dry day before things get much wetter to close out the week.   You'll notice, just to our north and west, southwest winds are taking over as a trough comes ashore in the Pacific Northwest. This will …

Mostly sunny and warm with increasing clouds lending of scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Today will offer our best chance at rain in quite some time, but again, not everyone will see it. Best time for storms is after 3PM.

Mostly sunny with isolated afternoon and evening thunderstorms, particularly in and near the Foothills. The best time for storms will be between 4PM and 9PM. High near 90 degrees.

The mid-level ridge continues to rotate clockwise across the Southwestern United States, currently centered near Las Vegas (seen below). This pattern continues to facilitate dry northwest flow across Colorado. At the surface, a cold front will be rushing south and west into the Denver Metro during the evening hours. The position of the front at 6PM this evening is shown …

Mostly sunny, hot, and dry. Highs once again near 90 degrees. Similar temps with a slight chance of storms for Thursday and Friday.

The upper-level dome of high pressure has retrograded westward compared to yesterday, centered over southern Nevada. Colorado is solidly entrenched in northwest flow (seen below). This northwest flow is quite dry, but at the lower levels, there is still plenty of moisture. With this, we'll see the chance of isolated thunderstorms later this afternoon. Both the GFS and NAM models …

Partly cloudy with scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms, forming first during the early afternoon across the higher terrain. Storms will then move due east onto the Plains. If your in the Mountains, be careful and descend to avoid that lightning! Following yesterday's weak cold frontal passage, highs today will be cooler, only in the upper 80's.