Strong Inversions Continue; but Slow Warming Trend is Underway

Taking a look back at Saturday morning, here is a sampling of low temperatures from around the region. You can see how relatively warmer air was found at the higher elevataions thanks to warmer air moving in aloft. As cold air wants to do, it settled into the valley bottoms and resulted in extremely cold readings for some locations.

Variable high clouds over the region through Sunday morning will keep temperatures from being as cold as Saturday morning. Nevertheless, it will still be frigid in places like northwest Colorado, the Gunnison Valley, and the upper Colorado and Eagle River Valleys.

Slighly warmer temperatures can be expected Sunday with readings above freezing for many of the mid and high elevations along and south of Interstate 70.

Increasing moisture from the Pacific Ocean will bring moderating temperatures and a chance of rain or snow to eastern Utah and western Colorado areas beginning Monday night and continuing through much of the week. The pattern favors greatest chances of precipitation occurring along and south of Interstate 70. Although confidence of occurrence is still on the low side, if precipitation does occur, the following snowfall forecast shows the most likely accumulations for Monday night and Tuesday.