Marty’s Sunday Morning Forecast – Scattered PM Showers – 3/24/19
Today: Areas of patchy fog early this morning will give way to a few hours of sunshine. Expect increasing clouds with scattered rain and snow showers developing over and near the mountains early in the afternoon and then drifting east through the evening. We don’t expect heavy precipitation to last terribly long over any one area, but where showers do develop they could produce bursts of heavy, wet snow over and near the mountains and may briefly whiten primarily cooler surfaces. As showers move away from the mountains they’re more likely to produce rain and maybe a little graupel/small hail and/or lightning over the plains. Showers should end Sunday night for all areas. High temperatures should reach the 40s for the mountains, mainly 50s along the I-25 corridor with some lower 60s for lower elevations along the Arkansas River, but the afternoon showers will cool the air as they develop and pass overhead.
Tonight: Scattered rain and snow showers will end this evening and then the sky will clear although some patchy low clouds and fog may develop over low lying areas. By morning we expect temperatures will have cooled into the 20s and 30s.
Extended: We expect a dry start to the work week with a significant warming trend and increasing wind. Spotty showers moving through New Mexico may sneak across the border into extreme southern Colorado Tuesday night, but otherwise we look to remain dry for much of the week. By Wednesday, if the clouds aren’t too thick, many parts of eastern Colorado should expect temperatures to reach the 70s with lower elevations along the Arkansas River possibly reaching the 80s. We’ve had enough precipitation to limit the threat for wildfires some, but by Wednesday and Thursday the wind will be getting pretty strong, and the air will be warm and quite dry so we’ll need to track fire weather conditions for areas that haven’t received as much precipitation. The air should become noticeably cooler again starting Friday with a chance for some rain and snow to start moving over the area, possibly affecting us through much of next weekend.
