10/08/26 9:45am: Here is a quick look at the next couple days and the weekend in terms of rain chances. Latest model runs show the remnants of hurricane Rachel tracking further west, closer to Utah, so a bit less impacts for CO.

There will be better rain chances across parts of southern and western CO on Saturday and Sunday: 12pm-9pm each day (mostly west of a Flat Tops to Leadville to Monarch Pass line), favoring the San Juans and I indicate this on the first image below.

For the rest of the north-central mountains (I-70 mountain corridor) more isolated to scattered storms on Sat and Sun, 1pm-8pm, hit or miss.

Little to no rain for Den/Bou and the front-range Sat and Sun (too much southwesterly downslope flow).

Prior to this for today: a few isolated to scattered thunderstorms in the central mountains near the Cont. Divide from 2pm-8pm today.

For tomorrow pretty dry across most of the state: isolated storms over the higher terrain (near the Cont. Divide again and west) from 2pm-8pm, won't be much.

Turning windy in spots over the mountains and western CO tomorrow afternoon 12pm-9pm: southwest wind-gusts of 15-30 mph.

I'm still tracking much more active and colder weather from Oct 13-17th but details are all over the place and the forecast is complicated. Den/Bou still could get some snow by next Thu/Fri (15th-16th) but who knows.

First image shows forecast total liquid precip from now through 6am Mon from latest ECMWF model, take amounts with grain of salt but I highlight where the best chances are this weekend (San Juans will be wet). Second image shows forecast precip-type/rate at 3pm Sun (you can see remnants of Rachel further west). Image 3 shows forecast radar over the next 60 hours (6am this morning to 6pm Sat) from latest NAM-3km model.