As we roll into mid‑April, the Front Range finally snaps back into an active pattern with fire danger, two storm systems, and even a shot at late‑season snow all packed into one busy week. From warm, windy days to Mountain snow and the possibility of flakes reaching the Denver–Boulder corridor by Friday, there’s a lot happening in the days ahead. Read on for all the details.
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These weekly forecast posts are published EVERY Monday morning and provide a general overview of the atmosphere and the weather conditions for the week ahead in Front Range Colorado. We give you a heads-up on the major short-term weather features and anything looming down the road.
This week leans warm and deceptively calm across the Front Range, but there’s more going on under the hood than the mild afternoons suggest. A couple of brief cold fronts, a parade of passing shortwaves, and even a midweek fire‑weather setup all take turns shaping our pattern. Rain chances stay meager, frost may sneak in early Tuesday, and late‑week energy could stir up a few isolated showers. We break down what to expect—and what not to count on—in our latest weekly outlook.
March is supposed to bring hints of spring, not the kind of heat that rewrites the record books and eats away snowpack like it’s June. Yet here we are again, recapping another weekend of astonishing warmth, more broken records, and a dire Westwide snowpack situation that has become genuinely alarming. We walk through just how extreme the heatwave has been, why Colorado’s water outlook is now in uncharted territory, and what the coming early April pattern shift might (or might not) do to slow the damage that’s already been done. Let’s dig in.
As if last week’s record‑smashing heatwave wasn’t enough, the atmosphere has decided to double down this week. After a brief cooldown, we’re gearing up for another round of exceptional warmth—with Colorado’s snowpack plunging to levels more typical of early summer than March. In today’s update, we break down the new records already in the books, the alarming snowpack decline, and what to expect as a second pulse of historic warmth takes aim at the Front Range.
Colorado may be easing into the week on a calm, cool note, but the atmosphere has no intention of staying quiet — and the shift ahead isn’t the one you might expect. While a major storm system pounds the eastern half of the country, a powerful ridge is quietly taking shape off the West Coast, ready to drive an exceptional, record‑shattering March heatwave straight into the Front Range. With gusty downslope winds on the way and the strong likelihood of multiple all‑time records falling, this week is all about the heat. How hot will it get and when will the heatwave end? Let’s take a look.
Warmth, wind, and a whole lot of déjà vu are back on the menu along the Front Range this week. After Sunday’s near‑record heat wiped out most of Friday’s snow, the pattern ahead looks suspiciously like the one we’ve been stuck in all winter — breezy downslope days, a meaningless cold front, and another surge of unseasonable warmth waiting in the wings. Fire danger, early Mountain snowpack melt, and record high temperature records will all come into play as we head deeper into the week and the month of March. Read on for all the details.
Meteorological winter wrapped up in the most 2025–26 way possible: not with snow, but with a wildfire at the base of the Flatirons—an unsettling bookend to what has been Boulder’s warmest winter on record by a wide margin. This week keeps the volatility going, with a near‑record warm Monday, a sharp cool‑down and rain on Tuesday, and a second late‑week system that could bring snow for everyone depending on how the trough organizes. It’s a classic early‑March pattern with warm spells, cold fronts, and plenty of uncertainty. Read on as we break down what to expect throughout the highly variable week of weather ahead in the Front Range.
As February limps toward the finish line, Colorado’s “winter” continues to behave like anything but. Last week the Mountains cashed in on a burst of Pacific moisture while the Denver Metro area stayed stubbornly snow‑starved. The week ahead brings more of that same split personality—warmth, wind, fire danger, and another round of Mountain snow. We break down the lopsided snow totals from last week, the updated but still troubling snowpack numbers, and discuss why this week will be so darn warm and windy again in the Front Range.
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