All that time learning to read lips and now everyone is in masks. Oh well. We’ll see some bumpers today starting around 2 or 3 and not as hot. Mid-80s on the high, maybe a touch warmer toward downtown. The jet has moved north of us and realigned west to east, along WA/OR MT/WY borders on east to rattle about loudly in Minnesota and northern Michigan. At the surface we’ve a bit of low pressure centered up in Wyoming and another around the Okie panhandle with a warm front connecting the two, running down to the east of the front range. There’s an easterly flow with that warm front, bringing up our dew points. We’ve got some moisture around that Okie low being pulled in from the southeast, Texas doing it to us, and that’s what’ll feed the thunderstorms as they move east of us. It’s possible we’ll see some hail along the I-25 corridor but most likely all that will happen out east of us where they’re more used to it. They might even see a tornado or two out there, slight chance of that.
In hypocrisy that must have been painful, the Republicans are jumping all over Hick’s record of sucking up to the oil and gas industry while governor. Hick’s not saying anything, leaving his abysmal actions to stand on their own. He’s going to have to say something, eventually, some form of mea culpa. O &G can’t figure out who to throw money at. Mandatory masks now, Sheriffs in El Paso and Weld Counties say they won’t enforce it. Afraid enforcing the law will “erode public trust,” which says a lot about why law enforcement looks like it does.
Have a good one, all.