Afternoon showers and t-storms in the outlook through the weekend

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:02]Time for a check of your First Alert weather with chief meteorologist Dave Aguilera. Dave, we've got some rain coming our way. We do indeed. And boy, do we need it. A little better chance coming tomorrow. And in fact, every day all the way through the weekend, we've got some pretty good chances uh into the start of next week. We'll show you that out there tonight. There's a lot of cloud cover covering our city as we look out our weather window here. But most of the rain has stayed up into the foothills and the mountains. Let me show you what I mean. and we'll take it to the floor and show you the satellite and radar. Look at everything that's dark gray. That's all cloud cover coming into Deer Trail for Morgan into the Denver metro area. As we widen that view out for you here, you can see just a lot of moisture coming in. However, most of that is going right up into the mountains up here. You take a look um into Grand Lake all the way down into Summit County here above 10,000 ft.

[00:00:49]There's a little bit of snow, but it's a line of moisture just shooting right up into the mountains here and everything's flowing back this way. But if you look out here, there's a kind of a flow coming from the southeast corner here back towards the Denver metro area. So even though it's not raining yet, we might tap into some of this. There's a little thunderstorm right outside of the Aurora area, believe it or not, in Elbert County coming in. That's all coming around a low pressure area which is in New Mexico. But if you look way out here outside of Nevada, Northern California, there's another big low pressure out that way. And that will be sliding in our direction coming up over the next couple of days. It will turn into what we call a cutoff low over California here. And what that will do, we still have this warm ridge of high pressure out here, but in between, we'll get a kind of a shot of moisture off the Baja down here that should enhance some rain showers for most areas of Colorado, especially the mountains in the southern part of the state tomorrow, and then give us chances of showers each day Thursday on into Friday on into the weekend as well. We never actually see this low shoot right into Colorado.

[00:01:51]If it did, we could have a lot more rain around here, but it never really moves into our state. So, we just kind of get offshoots of moisture here that'll keep kind of a chance each day of an afternoon shower or thunderstorm going through. And that's tomorrow as well.

[00:02:05]So, tonight, most of our moisture stays up into the mountains and down over southern Colorado here. By the morning tomorrow, we still have some rain from Pueblo down into southern Colorado while we are mostly cloudy over the northern portion of the state. And then by afternoon, kind of another surge comes in. Look at that little cluster of thunderstorms and showers in the central northern mountains here. Some of those will offshoot into Denver and the northeast on a scattered basis in the afternoon and evening. So although our chances are going up for getting some of those tomorrow, not everybody's going to get in the water tomorrow. But uh if you're under one of those, uh you will be one of the lucky few. So we're looking at 40s and 50s on lows tonight across most of eastern Colorado. 30s and 40s in the mountains and most of the state tomorrow. 70s and 60s even in the high country with the 80s kind of confined out here to the western slope.

[00:02:53]But Grand Junction may shoot up to about 88 degrees. Kind of hot out there in the Grand Valley. So 69 tomorrow it looks like for Cassrock, 73 in Lakewood, 75 in Arvvada and some of the north side of town from Mont Bellow Gateway all the way up to Riverrun and Brighton. You'll be in the mid to upper 70s for your high tomorrow. At the airport tomorrow, 73 with the scattered storms. 76 on Thursday. isolated afternoon thunderstorms. And then Friday into Saturday, warming it up into the 80s.

[00:03:20]Slight chance of late day storms.

[00:03:22]Sunday, 79. And by the time we get into Monday and Tuesday, better chances of those scattered storms coming your way.

[00:03:28]Probably about 50 to 40% chance to start next week. And also the first two days of June on the way. Where has the time gone?

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