The work week ends on a warm note. Highs this afternoon will be close to that 80-degree mark. In fact, southwest winds will be rather gusty in the 20 to 25 mph range, especially in Metro Denver and to the east of I-25. Lesser wind gusts will be found in the more sheltered areas east of the Foothills like Boulder. …

The latest GOES-West water vapor imagery shows an impressive closed upper-level low spinning just off the Southern California coast this morning. Wrapping around the southern flank of this circulation is a robust subtropical jet stream, effectively acting as an atmospheric conveyor belt transporting deep Pacific moisture northeastward into the Desert Southwest. The source region for much of this moisture extends …

Radar is showing a few weak echoes drifting across Colorado early this morning, but don't get too excited. Most of this activity is confined to the High Country where it's producing pockets of light rain and snow. While a few of these echoes may appear to spread onto the Plains from time to time, the low levels of the atmosphere …

Aweak area of low pressure over over Arizona and New Mexico will send its energy northward later today and tonight. But it is moisture-starved, and will only bring us mid to high clouds from time to time later today and around sunset. It won't put a damper on our highs of the middle 70s. A weak backdoor front will lower …