Your midday Colorado weather update

Active alerts: Red Flag Warning, Red Flag Warning, Red Flag Warning. around 86 degrees

Good afternoon, Colorado. In about six hours, the atmosphere is going to light up. A cold front slid through early this morning, dragging moisture straight out of the east.

Your 3pm Colorado weather update

Active alerts: Severe Thunderstorm Warning, Severe Thunderstorm Warning, Severe Thunderstorm Warning. around 90 degrees

Good afternoon, Colorado. The atmosphere is loaded. A cold front meeting moisture and heat is spinning up severe thunderstorms across the plains this afternoon.

Your morning Colorado weather update

Active alerts: Fire Weather Watch, Red Flag Warning, Fire Weather Watch. around 90 degrees

Good morning, Colorado. We're locked into a classic late-June setup, a warm, unstable airmass is parked over us. And a Denver cyclone spinning up this morning is pulling in moisture from the east.

Your 3pm Colorado weather update

Active alerts: Severe Thunderstorm Warning, Severe Thunderstorm Warning, Special Weather Statement. around 92 degrees

Good afternoon, Colorado. Colorado's having two completely different days, the Western Slope is baking at 95 degrees under full sun. Meanwhile, the Front Range is dodging thunderstorms.

Your morning Colorado weather update

Active alerts: Red Flag Warning, Red Flag Warning, Red Flag Warning. around 92 degrees

Good morning, Colorado. The summer solstice delivered exactly what you'd expect. And fire weather concerns lighting up the high country.

Your 9pm Colorado weather update

Active alerts: Red Flag Warning, Red Flag Warning, Red Flag Warning. around 60 degrees

Good evening, Colorado. If you're wondering why it feels like July already, blame the high pressure ridge parked right over us. It's blocking every storm system within 500 miles and cranking up the heat like a blast furnace.

Your morning Colorado weather update

around 68 degrees

Good morning, Colorado. Wildfire smoke is drifting south from Wyoming and Nebraska this morning, hanging over the northern Front Range like a gray curtain. You'll smell it before you see it — that acrid bite in the air.

Your 3pm Colorado weather update

Active alerts: Red Flag Warning, Red Flag Warning, Red Flag Warning. around 81 degrees

Good afternoon, Colorado. A cold front dropped in overnight and split the state clean down the middle. The Front Range gets the cool side — 81 degrees this afternoon under sunny skies.

Your morning Colorado weather update

Active alerts: Red Flag Warning, Red Flag Warning, Red Flag Warning. around 81 degrees

Good morning, Colorado. A cold front rolled through before sunrise. And you're going to feel the difference.

Your 3pm Colorado weather update

Active alerts: Severe Thunderstorm Watch, Air Quality Alert, Fire Weather Watch. around 91 degrees

Good afternoon, Colorado. We've got high pressure locked over the state. And it's cranking up the heat like a convection oven.