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Forecast Discussion:
The upper level feature bringing some rain and a lot cooler air (and eventually cleaner air) has slowed down a bit. We'll have another cool, cloudy, showery day today.
Figure 1 shows the ample moisture flowing up into the state (green arrow here and in following graphics). That flow is pushing the thickest smoke up into Montana, the Dakotas, and Nebraska (Figure 2).
Figure 3 is the midday surface map for today. A front has passed and pushed down into Arizona and New Mexico. A low sits in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandle and will pump surface moisture uphill into Colorado. That slower trough has opened (is no longer cut off/closed) but is still to our west by this evening (Figure 4).
For this evening, the next forecast surface map has much of the state sitting under a good chance of rain (Figure 5). Rainfall totals for the next 48 hours (Figure 6) paint us in the 1/4th to 1/2 inch area. Wet, but not flooding except under the rare heavy thunderstorm.
The longer range forecast:
There is still some moisture around Thursday a.m. but things are drying out and warming. We still get to around 90° F for the end of the week and weekend. And there is still a hint of another period of cool storminess early next week. See you here tomorrow!
