Weekend starting off sunny and dry, but expected to shift Sunday
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — The week is ending on a high note! Temperatures are expected to reach the mid seventies today, with tomorrow almost hitting the eighties. Tonight, conditions will remain clear. Temperatures will get down to the mid forties, with only the slightest of breezes in the Grand Valley throughout the day. However, a shift in the weather is coming Saturday evening, so be prepared for a rainy start to next week.Shower and thunderstorm activity will be more isolated across the southern mountains of Colorado this afternoon as drier and warmer air takes hold. Another weak disturbance and increasing moisture aloft will lift into the area Saturday afternoon and bring an uptick of showers and thunderstorms to the southern third of the County Watch Area. A bigger more impactful system arrives Sunday and beyond, bringing cooler temperatures and widespread precipitation to start the work week. High elevation snow and widespread shower and thunderstorm activity is expected well into early next week.Winds coming from the north are not expected to hit the southern Colorado mountains this afternoon. Temperatures will be higher than average as dry air and sunny skies barrel down on the region. As the system that is protecting western Colorado slowly gets overtaken by the closed low coming in from the Pacific Northwest, a shift in conditions will cause some heavy potential for showers and thunderstorms to kick off Sunday and Monday, with chances for snow in the higher elevations also likely.As this system approaches moisture advection will raise precipitable water values to above normal across the region. The National Weather service says peak anomalies will be around 175 to 200 percent of normal looking possible Sunday afternoon and evening. As of right now, it seems as though that weather may be sticking around until at least Tuesday or Wednesday. Below normal temperatures can be expected through much of next week before rebounding late in the week. The shower activity has ended for the night and will not return until tomorrow afternoon over the southern mountains and adjacent valleys.Overall, expect a gorgeous day today and a great start to the weekend!
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