7:00 AM | Cool frontal passage will bring rain and usher in cooler conditions

6-Day Forecast

Today

Mostly cloudy, cooler, showers and thunderstorms likely and some of the rain can be briefly heavy, highs in the low 70’s

Tonight

Mostly cloudy, cooler, breezy, lows in the upper 40’s

Thursday

Mostly sunny, windy, cool, low 70’s

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy, chilly, breezy, mid 40’s

Friday

Mostly sunny, cool, upper 60’s

Saturday

Mostly sunny, breezy, cool, upper 60’s

Sunday

Partly sunny, milder, upper 70’s

Monday

Partly sunny, even warmer, low-to-mid 80’s

Discussion

An upper level trough will move across the region today swinging a cool front through the southern Rockies and generating scattered showers and thunderstorms. Winds will also pick up in intensity and a cooling trend will commence. The cooler weather will continue through Saturday, but then as high pressure builds in aloft later this weekend, a warming trend will return to the region and high temperatures will approach 80 degrees by early next week.

Elsewhere, a clash of air masses will likely produce severe weather later today and tonight across the mid-section of the country and this will include the risk for tornadoes in places like Oklahoma and Kansas. Some snow is now falling in the highest elevations of Colorado and Wyoming and this colder air mass is sweeping towards very warm and humid air in the central US setting the stage for late day severe weather and that threat will likely continue on Thursday as well in the nation's mid-section.

Video

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