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Marty’s Saturday Morning Forecast – Very Windy! 11/14/2020

Overview:  Our weekend will start very windy with high country snow. The wind should let up starting Sunday and much of next week looks warm. By the end of next week, the wind will be on the increase again as another storm system approaches the area.

Today:  Very windy and colder with sustained wind speeds of 20 – 35 mph and occasional, possibly damaging gusts over 50 mph at times. The wind will support conditions favorable for the spread of wildfires over much of eastern Colorado where a Red Flag Warning will be in effect starting at 11:00 this morning. Snow will continue to fall, accumulate on, and blow around the ski resorts today and winter driving conditions are likely over the Continental Divide, especially over the northern half of the state. We aren’t expecting great chances for organized areas of precipitation over lower elevations, but it is possible that as a cold front slides south across the area late this morning and early this afternoon that brief snow showers will develop over the Pikes Peak Region. The early morning and late afternoon hours should be mostly sunny over eastern Colorado. Cooler today with high temperatures reaching the 50s and 60s for the plains with 30s and 40s for the mountains and mountain valleys, but the air will cool from northwest to southeast starting late this morning and lasting through the afternoon.

Tonight:  Mostly clear with the strongest wind gusts gradually winding down for most areas this evening, although some pockets of stronger gusts may continue until about midnight over the mountains. We’ll be colder with low temperatures in the teens and 20s for most areas.

Sunday:  Expect a crisp start under a mostly sunny sky. The afternoon will be a little breezy, but we’ll have much less wind as compared to Saturday and we’ll be warmer with high temperatures in the 60s for the plains and 50s over the mountains.

Extended:  Much of the week will be breezy and warm with high temperatures in the 60s and 70s for the plains with 50s to near 60 over the mountains and mountain valleys. We should see plenty of sun through the week but mountain wave clouds could filter the sun over many areas on Wednesday. Increasing clouds, becoming windy, and turning colder on Friday with a chance for rain and/or snow showers late in the day. Some snow may fall Friday night into Saturday over much of the area and we look to be much colder next weekend.

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Marty Venticinque

Marty is a weekend morning meteorologist for KRDO.

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