A look ahead at the next 7-14 days. Dry this week, active again the following week

02/23/25 9:40am: Happy Sunday! Lets take a look ahead at what we can expect weather-wise over the next 7-14 days. Overall a big break in the active weather pattern for the next week (7-9 days), before it turns more active again at the beginning of March. Going to be turning very warm along the front-range this next week (today through the 28th) with some wind at times. In the mountains just a little bit of light snow mostly Tue afternoon into Wed. Here are some main points:

Models show a weak disturbance clipping northern CO tomorrow so some light snow / snow-showers for the very northern mountains (Park Range, from Steamboat ski north) and Medicine Bow Range (Cameron pass, etc) from 5am-5pm Mon: Trace-2” in a few spots, not much for the I-70 ski areas (just cloudy and breezy).

Then a better chance for some light snow / snow-showers for the north-central mountains between 2pm Tue to 2pm Wed, including the I-70 mountain corridor / ski areas: Generally 1-3” in spots, favoring areas near the Cont. Divide and along/north of I-70.

In terms of wind: windy over the Front-Range mountains this afternoon (Sun) but especially Mon between 12am-5pm Mon: westerly wind-gusts of 50-80 mph, confined to areas mostly above 9k ft (Front Range mountains: IPW, RMNP will be windy), less wind further west and lower elevations (worst of it Mon midday).

Windy again over the Front Range on Wed as the short-wave passes north: windiest in the front-range mountains and foothills east of the Cont. Divide: westerly wind-gusts of 40-70mph.

For Den/Bou and the front-range nice weather with a big warm up in store for today through Tue (warmest Mon/Tue with temps in the mid-60s, could be close to 70). Then windier and colder again for Wed as the short-wave moves over northern CO, so back into the upper 40s for Wed. Also turning windy on Wed: westerly wind-gusts of 20-50mph. Then back to warm weather (and lighter wind) for Thu-Sun next week (very warm again next Fri/Sat).

Looking ahead, models show a weak upper-level low potentially impacting southern CO / San Juans next weekend: next Sat evening through Sun (March 1st-2nd): maybe some snow for the San Juans ski areas and Sangre, but its a ways out (likely not much at all for northern CO)

Looking a ways out, models show a return to a much more active weather pattern (with much colder air coming in) around March 3rd to 7th (so week after this week). Likely multiple storms in that time frame (models details are all over the place so uncertainty is high). But back to snowy pattern in March after a 7-10 day break now.

First image loop shows the evolution of the weather pattern via forecast 700mb temps/wind from latest ECMWF model (look for the purples for the cold-air and storms, the greens to yellows is warm air and drier generally). Second image shows forecast wind-gusts at 9am Mon from latest HRRR. Third image shows forecast total snowfall from now through 5pm Wed from NWS Blend of Models, take amounts with grain of salt. Fourth image shows 12-day forecast for Denver from the the weather channel.