The next storm will bring a big temperature drop along with a chance for rain and snow.
DENVER — FORECAST BY: 9NEWS Weather Impact Team Meteorologist Chris Spears
THE FORECAST AT A GLANCE:
The last Sunday of October 2024 will be very warm across Colorado with highs ranging from the 60s in the mountains to the 70s on the eastern plains and western slope. A few locations along and east of Interstate 25 may even top 80 degrees. The record high today in Denver is 83° set in 2016 and tomorrow’s record is 82°, also set in 2016.
If you have any outdoor plans today or tomorrow it will be dry with partly to mostly sunny skies. It will be breezy at times with a wind blowing out of the south and southwest. That wind will really pick up on Monday creating fire weather concerns, especially on the eastern plains. The National Weather Service has issued a Fire Weather Watch for the southeast plains on Monday due to the unusually warm, dry and windy forecast.
We’re still watching a storm that will change our weather starting on Tuesday. It is currently approaching the Pacific Northwest and it has much colder air with it, along with a chance for rain and snow.
As long as nothing changes with the speed or track of this system, we should see snow start to fall in our mountains sometime late Monday. We already have a Winter Storm Watch posted for the eastern San Juan Mountains where more than a foot of snow could fall above 10,000 feet.
For Denver, it will be much cooler on Tuesday, and turning cloudy, but we don’t expect rain showers to develop until later in the day. For some areas it may not rain until the evening or overnight hours. Then on Wednesday, we expect the day to start off with a rain and snow mix around the city, with all precipitation ending by the evening.
It is still too early to say if this will be Denver’s first accumulating snow of the season. For that to happen, all we need is 0.1″ of snow to accumulate at the official weather station.
Your Halloween looks dry with temperatures close to where they should be for this time of year. Denver area temps should be in the 40s around sunset.
SUNDAY: Mostly sunny and very warm, high 79. It will be breezy at times, especially during the afternoon. A few clouds overnight, low 47.
MONDAY: Increasing clouds and windy with elevated fire danger, high 79. Mostly cloudy overnight, low 46.
TUESDAY: Mostly cloudy, windy and much cooler with rain showers developing by the evening, high 61. Mostly cloudy, with rain/snow showers overnight, low 33.
WEDNESDAY: Cloudy and chilly with morning rain and snow showers, high 45. Partly cloudy overnight, low 30.
THURSDAY (HALLOWEEN): Partly cloudy and seasonal, high 58. Partly cloudy overnight, low 30.
FRIDAY: Mostly sunny and cool, high 62. Mostly clear and chilly overnight, low 31.
SATURDAY: Partly cloudy, high 58. Quiet overnight, low 36.
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