A hearty thanks to our civil servants in NOAA for doing what they do, including this stuff I’m getting from them, in spite of the pandemic, in spite of the administration telling them what to say the weather is.
Hot again today, but 1-3 degrees cooler than yesterday. Highs mid-90s along I25 corridor, upper 90s on the plains up NE. Mountains warm, 70s to low 80s in the valleys.
So, no bicycle trips out I76 into Nebraska, ‘kay? Have heard people actually do that.
We’ve got a mid and upper level trough moving down from the northwest, dragging some moisture with it. A slow moving front at the surface will move across Denver, about a Denver-Sterling alignment, and it’ll lower those afternoon winds from Denver to the northeast today. In front of it, however, southeast of us, we’ll see southwest winds sustained in the upper teens with gusts to around 30. Dry out there, winds, hot, fire danger in the high range in the plains southeast of us.
Southwest winds. The other day I overheard someone pointing the direction the wind was blowing to, north, and said it was a north wind. Nope. Winds are named for the direction they come from, not go to. Whatever blows off the neighbor’s roof and hits your car is coming from the direction you should name the wind for. Remember the Cheech and Chong bit, East Westchester Northstars, champions of the Southern Conference? Here’s one; The Southwest wind Southeast of us is an airmass moving Northeast driven by a front moving in from the Northwest. Got it?
Mountains will cool this evening as the mid/upper level trough brings us in the metro cooler air after about 8 this evening. Around howl-time.
So, Thursday-Friday should be better temp wise, highs 70s in the metro. Might even see some showers tomorrow night, not enough water for big thunderstorms. Friday cloudy and some showers, thunderstorms—possibly pretty good ones—later in the day.
Warming Saturday through Monday, mid-90s Monday.