Cooler for the plains...breezy with some gusts behind an overnight cold front. Gusty over mtns.

Added: 2026-05-05

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[00:00:18]Welcome to the weekend everybody. A cold front has moved through Friday night and early Saturday morning east of the mountains depending where you are and that is going to make things different out there today.

[00:00:29]To being around 70 in the Springs yesterday for most neighborhoods, upper 70s for Pueblo, lots of the eastern plains, we will be cooler today. We'll drop back into the 60s. So we pull back about 10 degrees for a lot of areas.

[00:00:41]Mountains, valleys not changed too much from what we had yesterday. Another day of wind though. Are you sick of the wind? I am. I know Banjo is so going with a seven on Banjo's barometer today behind a what will be another windy day with the front. We've had some passing clouds moving through. We haven't had any moisture of note as of yet. Northern sections of this front have been producing some showers and thunderstorms, little bit of snow actually around Torrington, Wyoming early on Saturday morning and this front will continue off to the south and be banked up against the hills as we head through the day today. Areas just west of it do have red flag conditions up through 8:00 tonight. This begins at 11:00 for the upper Arkansas River Valley, the San Luis Valley and then the foothills around Walsenburg and Trinidad because there will be west wind trying to come down the hills doing battle with the up slope behind the front through the day today. And what will happen in the late morning is the wind will pull back a little bit but that's as it switches around from the north to the east. I'm talking eastern plains here.

[00:01:41]Over the mountains the wind is out of the west southwest again today. It is dry air and where those two air masses come together right up against the eastern slopes of the Rockies, we'll get clouds to kind of develop today and increase partly because of moisture increasing from the southwest ahead of a system coming in that will move across the state on Sunday. That may produce a rogue shower or a sprinkle in the Pikes Peak region. We'll probably see some virga around out there as well. You can see Sky Cast picking up on that here as we head into the evening. What's of more note as we move through the overnight is rain and snow increasing over the western part of the state and eventually some showers getting going over the higher peaks of the Sangre de Cristos as we move into early Sunday morning. And so if you're traveling west Sunday, there may be some winter weather impacts to deal with over the mountain passes in particular with some slush. This is pretty warm system here and as we move through the day on Sunday, we'll actually see the snow level stay pretty high even overnight into early Sunday morning just because the air mass is so warm. Out across the far eastern plains, I can't rule out a couple of showers or a clap of thunder. It's probably not all that exciting as you saw. Over the mountain areas temperatures in the mid 30s for places like Gunnison, Alamosa, Aspen, all these will be a little bit chillier up higher but like I said, snow level probably staying above 9,000 ft here as we move through the overnight into the start of Sunday. Still kind of cool up against the front range on Sunday. The southeastern corner will be the warmest spot here. Also some wind on Sunday as the system passes across the area. There will be a little bit of instability. I can't rule out a shower particularly in the Pikes Peak region, the Palmer Divide. Anything trying to move off of the wet mountains will be virga as we hit the afternoon. I think there's better chances of some rain or some thunder up across the Denver area than there is for the Pikes Peak region but again, I can't rule it out. We'll also keep our eye on the far southeastern plains for the chance of a thunderstorm developing as well late in the day after lunchtime through about 8:00 or so. You just see it's more exciting in other areas over the mountains in the northeastern part of the state and western Kansas than it is in southeastern Colorado with this first one. However, we have a series of waves that will move into Colorado through the week with another chance of some showers over the mountains on Monday and an interesting system for the late part of the week that should bring us some beneficial moisture. I've got that in the extended forecast.