04/22/26 8am: Warm and windy today and tomorrow with high fire danger in spots. It will be very windy especially across parts of western and southern CO today and the mountains:

In fact parts of the south-central CO, including the Arkansas Valley (near Salida) and the San Luis Valley near Alamosa are under a Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS) Red Flag Warning from 2pm-7pm today: southwesterly wind-gusts of 50-70 mph with very hot and dry condition.

For Den/Bou and the front-range windy this afternoon, but not quite as strong: generally wind-gusts of 30-50mph in spots this afternoon, strongest 2pm-8pm.

Much of the front-range and eastern plains (including Den/Bou) is under a Red Flag Warning for today: 10am-11pm. Also under a Fire Weather Watch for tomorrow (Thu): 10am-8pm

Tomorrow looks even windier for parts of the front-range mountains and foothills and maybe the western suburbs of Den/Bou with wind-gusts of 40-80mph, favoring the northern front-range. Strongest winds expected along/east of the Cont. Divide above 8k ft in Boulder and Larimer counties (gusts of 70/80 mph in spots). Less wind near Denver but still windy tomorrow.

A chance for rain/snow showers over the mountains on Thu afternoon, mostly between 1pm-8pm.

Then a better chance for some rain showers over both the mountains and front-range on Fri afternoon: 2pm-10pm.

Even better chances for rain showers Saturday afternoon especially in the mountains after 4pm Sat. Probably not much for Den/Bou on Sat, so still decent to be outside.

Sunday will be the wettest day of the weekend.

Most of the rain/snow will fall between 12am Sun to 6am Mon, heaviest Sun afternoon/evening: As I mentioned yesterday could be 4-8" of snow for the mountains and 0.25" to 0.50" of rain for Den/Bou and the front-range.

First image shows the PDS over southern CO today from the Pueblo NWS office. Second image loop shows forecast wind-gusts over the next 48hrs (6am this morning to 6am Fri) from latest HRRR. Images 3 and 4 compare forecast total liquid precip from now through next Tue at 6am (mostly from the Sun/Mon storm), take with grain of salt, but darker blues to pink areas have best chances for significant precip this weekend.