Fortunately, as of last Friday afternoon, the wildfire smoke from Canada has cleared out of our area. However, this week will feature new weather challenges in Colorado, with the primary story being a brutally hot, dry and extended heatwave, with a secondary concern being the return of thicker smoke later in the week. Let’s take a look!
Category: This Week in Colorado Weather (Page 3 of 60)
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.
After a cool and unsettled past several days, the week ahead turns much drier, notably hotter, and quite hazy with Canadian wildfire smoke engulfing the Front Range. Rain chances will be limited through the week as the monsoon stays largely suppressed. We will return to the 90s as early as Tuesday, perhaps nearing 100 degrees by week’s end. When is our best chance of rain, how hot will it get and when will our air quality finally improve? Let’s take a look!
After days of scorching heat, this week will fortunately trend cooler and wetter with the return of monsoon moisture to Colorado — perfect timing considering severe drought has now returned to the area and fire danger continues to explode. Following one more toasty outing on Monday, temperatures will tumble below normal by midweek with daily chances for monsoon thunderstorms, some of which could be severe. We review the ongoing heatwave, the recent Dinosaur Fire in Boulder, why the pattern is now shifting and look ahead to which days will offer the best chance of rain this week.
Say goodbye to those 70s we had on Sunday. Record-setting heat is queuing up later this week as a strong ridge will build into the area from the Desert Southwest. With this, expect progressively warmer daytime highs as the week wears on, eventually soaring into the lower 100s by Friday and into the weekend ahead. Alongside the heat, there will be very limited chances for rain this week, with any storms that do manage to form in this hot and dry airmass being mainly confined to the Mountains and Foothills.
This week’s weather in the Front Range will feature a welcomed northwest flow pattern, one which will usher in cooler temperatures but unfortunately little in the way of rainfall as the monsoon remains at bay. Several disturbances will be tracking across northern Colorado but will have extremely limited moisture to work with resulting in most areas staying nearly bone-dry this week. While not good at all for the ongoing drought, this setup will allow for cool and beautiful conditions for the Fourth of July — just be mindful that fire danger is growing. Read on for all the details.
This week’s weather in Colorado will be dominated by a potent ridge of high pressure setting up shop across New Mexico. Although chances of storms will exist for Monday and Tuesday, model guidance shows better agreement for more numerous thunderstorm activity during the latter part of the week as a few weak fronts move into the region and moisture levels increase across the Front Range. High temperatures will be close to record values early in the week, but trend downward slowly by week’s end. Read on for more details.
This week in the Front Range will feature a rollercoaster ride of temperatures from 90s to the 70s and back again! There will also be increasing rainfall chances for the mid to late-week period as remnant moisture arrives from a tropical system in the Gulf of Mexico — this is not the beginning of our seasonal monsoon just yet. Temperatures will slowly ramp up back into the 90s for the upcoming weekend. Read on for more details.
This week in the Front Range will feature two scorchingly hot days sandwiched between chances for thunderstorms. For the most part, the severe risk looks to be low throughout the extended, but we will need to monitor things late in the week as a surge of subtropical moisture may support more numerous storms and torrential rainfall rates. Read on for all the details.
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