Marty’s Sunday Morning Forecast – Strong Storms & Heavy Rain Possible – 7/29/18

Today: Partly cloudy with pockets of low cloud cover and patchy fog possible early this morning, scattered showers and thunderstorms are likely again this afternoon. The strongest thunderstorms could produce severe weather this afternoon with large hail to over an inch in diameter and damaging wind gusts the primary threats, but isolated tornadoes are also possible over the plains. Any strong storms today will also be capable of producing very heavy rain and frequent lightning. Expect high temperatures to reach the 80s to near 90 for the plains this afternoon with mainly 70s to near 80 over our local mountain communities, but the air will cool some as thunderstorms drift over the area.

Tonight: Scattered showers and thunderstorms will slide southeast this evening, potentially producing some very heavy rain over the plains. The National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Watch for tonight through 6:00 Monday morning for Bent, Prowers, Kiowa and Baca counties. As the storms pass the sky should become partly cloudy with some pockets of low cloud cover and/or patchy fog possible late. We expect to cool into the 50s and 60s by morning.

Extended: Thunderstorms should be less numerous on Monday, and the air will be cooler. Many areas will likely remain dry on Tuesday. The air will warm again through the rest of the week, and although we will have far fewer daily thunderstorms as compared to last week, we still expect isolated to scattered thunderstorms on a daily basis starting Wednesday. The air will get pretty toasty again by the end of the week.