Marty’s Saturday Morning Forecast – A Few Strong Storms Possible – 8/18/18

Today: Areas of low clouds and patchy fog will give way to a partly cloudy sky later this morning. Becoming breezy with scattered showers and thunderstorms developing over and near the mountains around lunch time, then tracking east through the afternoon. Thunderstorms should become more widespread as they move east of the I-25 corridor where larger areas of heavy rain are more likely. Isolated thunderstorms may produce severe weather today as well with hail possibly over an inch in diameter and wind gusts around 60 mph with the strongest storms. Before thunderstorms arrive we expect temperatures to reach the 70s and 80s for the plains, 60s and 70s for our local mountain areas, but the air will tend to cool as the storms move past.

Tonight: Thunderstorms will be most numerous over the plains east of the I-25 corridor this evening, but spotty showers and weaker thunderstorms will remain possible farther west through about midnight. The sky should become partly cloudy for most areas by morning with low temperatures in the 40s and 50s for the mountains, 50s to around 60 for the plains.

Extended: A cold front will kick up the wind and bring in some drier air starting Sunday, and Monday looks pretty cool for this time of year. The air should begin warming again later next week, and eventually we expect scattered thunderstorms to return to more areas.