Gonna be another cooker, kiddo, with temps into the 90s. Some thunderstorms coming off the higher terrain after 3, high based stuff, shouldn’t see severe over the metro. Maybe out in the plains we’ll see a severe get going someplace, knock around a few jackrabbits. A few will hang around the metro and east later than normal, there’s a surface front pushing in from Wyoming overnight to keep the churning going. The jet has curled well north of us, with an upside down horseshoe bent down west of us over Cali/Wash.
Friday’s the story, not a big one though. Kind of a “Huh” when you get to the conclusion. The cold front pushing in overnight is a weak one, but it will gets thing churning a little. Initially it’ll bring the winds out of the north but as it moves beyond us they’ll swing to the east. Which is upslope. The air is moving up over rising land so pressure is coming off, reducing the air’s capacity to hold dissolved moisture and water goes from gas to liquid, becomeing visible. Clouds. Churn them a little, heat the outer edges and that part of it climbs to higher cooler levels, releasing more moisture, gets pulled toward the middle of the cloud because THAT wet air got cooler with altitude and fell back down, then gets warmer lower and is pulled back to the outside etc etc etc, When the falling center column of air gets too heavy with wet and cold to turn around and go back up it splatters all over the ground. If it had a long time of going round and round some of the moisture froze and picked up a new layer of water lower when it turned around. That’s why you can break a hailstone apart and see rings, like a tree. Count them, that’s how many trips it made up and down before it whacked your begonias.
So, at the moment the Storm Prediction Center (yes, a real place full of hard working civil servants) has all of Eastern Colorado under a marginal risk of severe T-bumpers tomorrow afternoon and evening. Enough water out there to get some locally heavy rain. Flash flood stuff might happen, they’ll get a good forecast on that as we get closer.
After Friday we’ll be typical late June; nice mornings, a few bumpers moving off the mountains in the afternoons. Back into high 80s Saturday then 90s.