DENVER — FORECAST BY: Meteorologist Chris Bianchi
THE FORECAST AT A GLANCE: It's a cool and unsettled start to this Mother's Day across central and eastern Colorado, including the Denver area.
We'll have showers around mainly this morning in the Denver area, then perhaps a brief break around midday before popcorn hit-or-miss showers and rumbles of thunder for this afternoon. So, it's not a total washout, but it's not a particularly nice day with more clouds than sun and rain chances most of the day. Highs will be in the mid-60s, a few degrees below average.
Meantime in the mountains, some spots picked up a significant winter storm overnight. Leadville saw about 18 inches of snow, while Fairplay picked up a foot of fresh May snowfall! That's led to some issues mainly at or above 10,000 feet in elevation.
Careful if you're driving to or from the mountains, as pass level travel will be difficult due to all that heavy, wet snow.
Skies clear tonight finally, and that should give way to a much improved day on Monday. We'll have plenty of sunshine to start the day with late day clouds and a few isolated showers and storms, mainly in the mountains. One or two of those gusty showers could move down into the Denver area, but it's mainly a dry and mild day with highs in the mid-70s.
We'll warm up to the upper 70s for Tuesday, but with a few more afternoon storms. That's ahead of our next cold front, and that one will bring us widespread showers and storms for Wednesday.
Wednesday generally looks cloudy and cool, with highs stuck in the low 60s (close to 10° below our seasonal average).
Highs rebound into the 70s for Thursday ahead of a very warm Friday and Saturday, with a high near 80° both days!
Sorry about today's gray Mother's Day, but enjoy the warmer weather for Monday and later this week!
SUNDAY: Mostly cloudy and breezy with scattered showers/storms, high 64; partly cloudy and clearing overnight, low 45.
MONDAY: Mostly sunny and warm, with scattered showers in the mountains, high 75; partly cloudy overnight, low 42.
TUESDAY: Mostly sunny and warm with a few late-day storms, high 77; mostly cloudy overnight, low 45.
WEDNESDAY: Mostly cloudy and cooler with scattered showers/storms, high 63; mostly cloudy overnight, low 46.
THURSDAY: Mostly sunny, warm and dry with an isolated afternoon storm, high 73; mostly clear overnight, low 44.
FRIDAY: Mostly sunny and very warm, high 79; mostly clear overnight, low 48.
SATURDAY: Mostly sunny and warm, high 80; partly cloudy and clearing overnight, low 50.
SUNDAY: Mostly sunny with afternoon storms possible, high 77; mostly cloudy with a chance for showers overnight, low 48.
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