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Denver Weather: It's here, you'll feel temperatures plunge and snowfall increase

Midday Friday and you can see it in the air with the poor air quality, the cold air is driving in. Our thinking since yesterday has not changed, so, here is a quick look at the hourly planners, travel issues, snowfall totals, etc. Oh, you won't miss this arriving... the wind has been howling in many areas (faster than 50mph across Northern Colorado through this morning). Plus, the air isn't the cleanest, peek outside if you haven't already. We've reached our high and now temperatures are drop
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Colorado Arctic Weather: Cold and snow expected this weekend
We've been on top of the big changes ahead for this weekend. Here's a little update on what we're working with! The latest: NWS has issued a winter weather advisory for much of the Front Range and parts of the Plains: Regarding what we've been tracking for you this week - generally speaking, not a whole lot has changed. Today is likely our nicest afternoon for awhile... We'll see a bit of a dip by tomorrow... generally 40s. By Saturday we attempt to get to 20 by sunrise before a precipitous
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Denver Weather: So, when does this cold hit, and will we see snow?
It'll be night and day different around here by this weekend as we go from the sunny warmth to the deep-freeze and there'll be snowfall too...sounds like winter to me. First, we are likely headed to well below zero temperatures this weekend and early next week. Sure, some of the daytime highs may be record setting for how chilly they are but overall we are not looking at record low temperatures. Maybe I'll start there, a list of existing record cold temperatures for Denver: January 18th: -19°
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Colorado Weather: Cold weather, snow, after a warm week
This week, overall, looks quiet with warm days and lots of melting of that recent snow now ice. By the weekend, however, a whole new ballgame - snow then cold...potentially very cold. Luke Victor talked at length to our Insiders with a more technical look at the setup driving Arctic temperatures toward the U.S. and how they'll likely be closer to home this time. Here is that post: Weather5280 Insider: Arctic Air this weekend? Here’s what we know and a polar vortex explainerAh, yes. It’s polar
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Weather5280 Insider: Arctic Air this weekend? Here's what we know and a polar vortex explainer
Ah, yes. It's polar vortex season everybody. It looks like our first true blue arctic front looks possible as we head into the weekend. There's been some discrepancies between data thus far, but we seems to be honing in on a pretty decent solution. Heading into midweek, we should have a pretty decent grip on numbers, location and duration of this potentially dangerous cold snap. A quick peek at 850mb temps here on Monday afternoon and we see the first pieces of our arctic air plunge beginning t
Colorado Weather
Colorado weekend weather: Additional snow chances, more cold air
Following Thursday's amped up cold front that brought a lot of folks near-blizzard conditions around the Palmer Divide, we've calmed down quite a bit here on Friday to close up shop for the week. From: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19fBBjpgih/Those were scenes from northern Colorado Springs Thursday morning while I was out and about – needless to say it got a bit rocky at times... Looking ahead to the weekend, another area of troughing will develop over the western US and eventually cut off
Denver Weather
Denver Weather: Snow overnight, advisory issued to the east and south
Snowfall will focus on the southern metro areas through Thursday morning as a quick system drops snow and increases the wind. The result? Potentially a slower morning commute in some cases. I'd watch for C470/E470, I-25 from DTC to Monument, 86 east of Castle Rock and I-70 east of Watkins, and Hwy 24 east and west of the Springs to have potential issues. I'll get to the totals in a moment, but first the alert. The areas of highest impact are highlighted here in this advisory. The details from
Snowfall Totals
Snow has ended, frigid night ahead, active pattern continues?
Well, even though there wasn't a ton of snow, the cold air kept the roads nasty for much of the morning and early afternoon out there, and the night ahead will be cold! A bit of a ho-hum storm overall for totals, especially where the bump up to a Winter Storm Warning for parts of southern Colorado with meager totals to show for it. While most areas managed to fall within our forecast range along the urban corridor, many folks ended up on the low end. It happens. This was kind of fun! > A r
Snowfall Forecast
Winter Weather Advisory posted for Denver, Front Range of Colorado
As discussed yesterday , our next system quickly approaches as our weekend storm is now delivering a wintry wallop to Washington DC in one last hurrah for a storm that brought a serious bit of winter to central CONUS over the last couple of days. While the Denver area didn't se
Denver Weather
Colorado Weather: Snow impacts Monday and Tuesday, winter-like cold this week
Hey all! Pretty impressive storm system over the center of the nation right now – it was responsible for the freezing fog reports over much of eastern Colorado yesterday. Other than that and the cold air that it's drawn in, much of the state was spared from major impacts which are being felt in the form of a blizzard over central Kansas, and a major sleet and freezing rain storm for areas around and south of St. Louis, MO. This compact, bowling-ball type system is going to race eastward quic
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Denver Weather: Foggy start, some icing, snow nearby this weekend
Saturday morning had a foggy start for much of Northeastern Colorado including parts of the metro areas, especially Denver to Fort Collins and Greeley. The thickest fog posed an icing threat on many surfaces. Fog in Lafayette Saturday morning: As fog dissipates, temperatures will remain cool today and we will be watching for snow showers to potentially move through. Here is a temperature and snow chance timeline which is similar between Denver and Colorado Springs: Anyone traveling should kn
Denver Weather
Denver Weather: Snow, for some, comes this weekend, windy at times for now
Although warm to end the week, and windy at times too, there will be a quick system to spread some impact onto the metro areas this weekend. This system will cool us down a touch and spread some snowfall. Until that system reaches us, the mountains will hold onto the snow. Travel over the passes may be tricky to slow due to strong wind blowing snow plus additional accumulations today. Rabbit Ears Pass is snow-packed, but otherwise calm as of this snapshot Thursday morning, but conditions may
Colorado Weather
Cold start to the New Year for the Eastern U.S., what this might mean for Colorado
Happy New Year everyone! We hope you all had a happy safe evening celebrating, and how about the sneaky snow bands that delivered a bit of snow to a few lucky ones as a final goodbye to the year? CoCoRaHS reports show about 0.2 to 0.4"on the south side of Denver, with a narrow 0.5" to 1.8" north of the city. Cold coming? The pattern appears ready to unleash some pretty impressive cold to start the New Year, particularly so across the eastern third or two-thirds of the U.S. Below is the outloo
Denver Weather
End of 2024 blows: the wind to be dangerously strong to end the year
You may have noticed the wind picking up speed Sunday, well the strongest is to come and will become dangerous for travelers for two reasons - first high profile vehicles it goes without saying, but blowing snow and heightened avalanche risk for those in the mountains. Here are the alerts as of 2:30pm Sunday: That's a lot of wind for the Front Range and Plains. The strongest wind is expected between 5am and 2pm Monday. That wind is going to be 30 to 40 mph overall, but gusts can reach at least
Denver Weather
Denver Weather: One of warmest Christmas Eve's is on tap, snow chance for some on Christmas Day
You know it. You've observed it. This December has been light on snow and heavy on warmth for the city. December is likely to end within the top 5 warmest and top 10 least snowy on record for the Denver Area. There will be a chance to cool off Christmas Day with some isolated snow/rain to move through, too, but temperatures are still warmer than average and there isn't a lot of moisture to fall. We will discuss the moisture potential in a moment, but what is noteworthy weatherwise this Christma
Denver Weather
Wind tapering, mild pattern for now, Christmas snow chances?
Big time snoozer of a weather pattern lately – outside of that dang wind which gusted has high as 90 mph near Coal Creek Canyon this morning! Several folks in the Pikes Peak Region caught gusts as high as 50-60 mph late yesterday evening. Responsible for the wind is the storm passing to our north at the beginning of the forecast animation. Something else that sticks out is the BIG time warm ridge that builds in. That's a classic look for widespread 50s and 60s going into the holiday weekend!
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Denver & Colorado Weather: Snow this weekend mostly trapped in the high country
Snow will fall on some of the mountains later today with the first of several weak storm systems that will pass through the region – for Denver, some wind and temperature changes are ahead. With that said, it is theoretically possible for the Denver area to see some precipitation Sunday into Monday, albeit a very low probability. To visualize that, here's an hourly timeline for rain/snow chances in Denver this weekend...that green and blue line (symbolizing the chances) barely budge. And while
Colorado Weather
Colorado Weather: Beautiful weekend leads to Monday snow for some
What a December weekend out there! Plenty of folks in the 50s and 60s for both Saturday and Sunday. Today, we're starting to see the change in the weather pattern ramping up – we've got a really neat mountain wave cloud that's setup across parts of the I-25 corridor as we turn the page into Sunday afternoon. That's the first signal that we've got some changes on the way. CDOT Camera @ Monument HillWe're expecting a pretty fast moving cold front to kick through Monday morning, with temperatures
Denver Weather
Colorado Weather: Watching for our next storm
So far so good since the snow around Thanksgiving. We look to continue a fairly tame pattern through the end of this week and into part of the weekend. THE BIG PICTURE The predominant weather pattern across the United States features large scale troughing over the east, and significant ridging across the northwest. Colorado finds itself caught in the middle of these two regimes. Our weather has been mainly a dry, northwesterly flow with some fronts here or there to keep temps up and down a
Snow Forecast
Colorado Weather: Heavy snow hits mountains, snarls traffic, with rain and snow headed toward metro areas
The slow travel heading into Thanksgiving has begun as winter driving conditions return to the mountains Tuesday morning. Here is a view from Vail on I-70: Travel conditions will stay slow for Colorado through late Wednesday. Here is a way to visualize that impact. Do your eyes gravitate toward I-25 and those possible travel issues? Let's dig a bit deeper. For today, snowfall remains heavy in the mountains. For the metro areas, pockets of rain will form later today, turning into snowfall overn