Author: Jerry Roberts

Clouds presently moving into southwest Colorado that may bring a few inches of snow to the higher elevations but a better chance tomorrow for moisture in the high country. A large low pressure trough containing several shortwaves will affect the SW mountains Wednesday through Friday. Wed....

High clouds floating through today from a closed low off the California coast that is spinning warm air  into western Colorado  and carrying impressive moisture on SW flow..  But with weak storm dynamics (low vorticity/vertical instability), warm temps & mostly orographics for moisture production the...

Our dry weather will soon be history with the start of another storm cycle carried on a moist Pacific trough moving into the Colorado mountains beginning mid to late day Saturday.  A cold front associated with the system will make things interesting.  Snowfall should begin...

  There's a building ridge of high pressure over Colorado today with warming temps and clearing skies. Later in the day, clouds will begin moving into the forecast area just ahead of the next large trough of low pressure on the west coast pushes into the...

  A pleasant but windy day on tap with increasing clouds later this afternoon & tonight. Much like our Wed/Thur storm, vicious winds will again create another dust event putting desert grit in the air & snow mixing with Sunday's precipitation. Currently a Gulf of Alaska...

    Surely love these warm tenuous March days, then it all changes in a matter of hours. Enjoy this beauty of a day because Wednesday will see increasing clouds and SW winds as another storm currently spinning off the NW coast of Washington/BC will bring snow...

  Today will be warm & sunny, but changing with increasing cloudiness and dropping air temperatures that precede a weak low pressure trough/cold front that will turn into another active weather period tonight/early Saturday and into Sunday morning favoring the west and northern San Juan mountains. There...

  A near perfect Sunday.  Warm, cloudless and calm, but all to end rapidly tomorrow with a120 knot jet on SW flow entering our area with big wind, another cold front and a little snow for the high country.  Models mixed on when, where and how...