A look at the weather for the week (04/21 through 04/28)

04/21/25 8am: Its Monday. Lets take a look at what we can expect weather wise this week. Overall themes spring / early-summer like weather pattern, turning warmer Mon-Wed with a few snow showers for the mountain and some weak afternoon rain showers for the front-range, then a cold-front and better rain chances for the front-range on Thu and Fri (mostly in the afternoons). A colder storm maybe by next Sun night into Mon.

• Models show a weak short-wave passing north of CO this afternoon this will produce a few scattered snow showers over the mountains from 12pm-10pm today, Trace-1" of snow in just a few spots, best chances north of I-70

• Then a little bit of moisture and another very weak wave tomorrow but slightly better storm chances for both the mountains and front-range (a few rain/snow showers for the mountains after 1pm Tue, again nothing major: Trace-2" in spots)

• For Den/Bou a chance for isolated weak storms on Tue from 2pm-8pm, most area stay dry. Stronger storm on the eastern plains, east of DIA after 4pm Tue

• On Wed best chances for storms will be over the eastern plains (east of a line from Greeley to DIA) after 3pm again. For Den/Bou again just very isolated variety

• Models show a backdoor cold-front (coming in from the north / northeast) impacting the front-range on Thu, with much better thunderstorm chances for Den/Bou and the foothills between 4pm Thu through 2am Fri, some scattered storms and better rain coverage Thu evening (so heads up there).

• Most of the rain action on Thu will be along/east of the Cont. Divide with limited rain/snow for the mountains (upslope impacting the front-range and eastern plains)

• Models show a secondary cold-front impacting the front-range on Fri, and again some good rain/thunderstorm chances in the afternoon 2pm-11pm Fri, scattered storms for Den/Bou and the foothills (again mostly east of the Cont. Divide)

• Warmer / drier weather returns for Sat and Sun (next weekend) with good thunderstorm chances remaining over eastern CO (east of Akron to Limon: eastern plains) after 3pm each day, further west for Den/Bou and the mountains likely will remain dry Sat and Sun

• Then watching a colder storm system that may bring more meaningful snow back to the mountains by next Sun evening into Mon (04/27-04/28) but that is a ways out, so high uncertainty

First image loop shows the evolution of the pattern via forecast precip-type/rate MSLP and thickness. Image 2 shows the 8 day forecast for Denver from The WeatherChannel. Image 3 shows forecast total liquid precip from now through 12am Sat from latest GFS, take with grain of salt but you can see chances for precip for mostly front-range and eastern plains this week.