Fire weather warnings across western Colorado kick off Memorial Day weekend
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — The first official look at the nineties for the year is here. Sunny skies will dominate the region today with highs near 90 degrees. While some breezes are also expected, there will be a break in gusty outflow winds for today, returning tomorrow. Tonight, expect some cloud coverage to roll back into the region with the lowest temperatures of the night reaching the mid-to-upper fifties. Slight breezes from 5 to 10 miles per hour will persist throughout the night.Temperatures remain around 10 degrees normal to end the week. Hot, dry, and windy conditions will produce Red Flag conditions over portions of eastern Utah and western Colorado where fuels have been determined to be critical on Friday. With a shift in the weather pattern over the West this weekend precipitation chances look to increase slightly and temperatures decrease slightly. Confidence remains low on widespread measurable rainfall however.As humidity begins to climb for the region and winds die down for today, extreme fire weather conditions have also begun to decrease for much of the western slope. On top of Grand County and other eastern portions of Utah continuing their Fire Weather Warnings into tonight, some areas of western Colorado have also been added. Some localized critical fire weather conditions may continue across east-central Utah over the next hour, but expect this to subside soon.A flat weather pattern across the Continental United States will be the cause behind the breezes felt this afternoon and some lower humidity levels. Temperatures continue to be significantly higher than average, but not quite at record-breaking levels yet. There could be some virga that develops under some of the stronger vertical updrafts but with the extremely dry boundary layer should prevent any measurable precipitation from reaching the ground. This remains unchanged for tomorrow with hot…dry and windy conditions bringing another round of critical fire weather conditions across portions of eastern Utah in the afternoon. Virga and a very low probability of a shower will be possible near the Wyoming border tomorrow afternoon.Overall, expect a hot and dry one today!
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