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Today's overall pattern is ridging across Colorado. However, a very disorganized and embedded chunk of energy is overhead as well, visible below in the 500 mb map (green and yellow splotches across our state). With the ridge axis nearly overhead, today will be a couple degrees warmer than yesterday (mid 80's today), but ultimately end with a similar outcome....afternoon storms! After …

The upper-ridge is still draped across the western United States, with an embedded piece of shortwave energy centered near Salt Lake City, Utah. Weak downslope will be in place this afternoon, but there will be enough instability in place to produce scattered afternoon thunderstorms once again, similar to yesterday. A few of the storms could be severe, with hail ~1" …

The upper-ridge continues to build across the western United States, with more downslope across Colorado today (NW flow). We also see a shortwave upper-low come ashore in California this afternoon, eating into the western flank of the ridge. This feature will help to enhance storms through the early part of the week. For this afternoon, the threat of storms returns …

The ridge continues to build across Colorado on Saturday at the upper-levels, with dry northwesterly flow remaining in place. We're only expecting a few friendly clouds to pop-up later this afternoon, with no chance of rain, even in the Mountains. Any isolated storms that do form should stay south of Interstate 70. A weak cold front associated with the trough …

Today is the first day we will truly be under the influence of the upper-level ridge we have been talking about for the last few days. It has slowly migrated eastward and with that, northeast Colorado will begin to heat up! In the map above, notice the northwest flow across Colorado. This will bring in drier air, which will provide …

The chilly airmass that arrived yesterday will still be in place across Colorado today. As high pressure continues to build and sag southward across Nebraska, clockwise flow around the high will bank moisture up against the Foothills via east-southeastly low-level flow. This is nicely visible below on the surface map for this afternoon. As a result, we are expecting plenty of …

We hope you had a memorable Memorial Day weekend! The upper-level pattern for today shows a sizable trough of low pressure across of the upper Midwest and a ridge building across California. Today's focus will be on the trough to our north and east and the trailing cold front has moved through northeast Colorado this morning. You likely are already aware …