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KEY MESSAGES

- Cooler on Tuesday with lighter winds across the plains but westerly afternoon breezes across the mountains and valleys.

- More active pattern for mid week into the weekend with a couple of Pacific systems moving through the western U.S. with mountain snows and showers at times across the plains.

SHORT TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/

Issued at 1229 AM MST Tue Feb 10 2026

Today and Tonight...

A cold front pushed through the southeast plains Monday evening with gusty northerly winds progged to weaken and shift around from the east to southeast in the afternoon. Temperatures will be around 20 degrees cooler across the plains than those of Monday. The mountains and valleys will feel little affect from this shallow front with increasing westerly flow aloft mixing gusty winds down into the lower elevations in the afternoon. Temperatures may cool a couple of degrees as heights aloft decrease a bit with the approaching Pacific system out west. This system will also spread increasing moisture into the Continental Divide tonight allowing some snow showers to develop overnight into Wednesday morning along the Continental Divide. With increased cloud cover, overnight lows in some of our interior valleys (Upper Rio Grande and San Luis) should stay fairly mild compared to readings of late. Lows regionwide will be in the 20s and 30s for the most part.

LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY/

Issued at 1229 AM MST Tue Feb 10 2026

As the next Pacific low pushes into central and northern CA on Wednesday, some shortwave energy will eject across CO through the day. This will spread a round of showers into the Continental Divide with a few showers spreading eastward into the Sangres during the evening and overnight. A few inches of accumulation will be possible across the eastern San Juans and the Sawatch and Mosquito ranges with amounts in the 2 to 7 inch range by early Thursday morning. The plains now stay largely dry with temperatures rebounding as lee side troughing redevelops and kicks eastward. Warmest readings will be south of highway 50 where readings in the mid to upper 60s will be possible. Remainder of the lower elevations will warm into the 50s to lower 60s, with 30s and 40s for the higher mountains.

CO remains between systems on Thursday as the upper low drops southward off the CA coast and northern stream energy drops through the northern plains. Snow showers continue out west across the mountains with a few showers spreading eastward at times into the southeast mountains. Precipitation amounts remain light given the best forcing stays well off to the southwest. Temperatures will remain above normal.

The system finally ejects through the Desert Southwest on Friday with precipitation spreading northward across the southern portions of the forecast area late Friday through Saturday morning. Differences in the storm track still abound with the operational Canadian and its ensembles still on the more northern envelope of storm tracks, spreading widespread rain and higher elevation snow across southern CO Friday night through Saturday morning as the upper low ejects into the TX/OK panhandles. GFS and EC are farther south, keeping most of the precipitation to our south. NBM seems to have quite a bit of Canadian and some 00Z GFS ensemble influence with heavier QPF across the southeast plains than operational GFS and 00z EC suggest. Highest confidence for precipitation still favors locations south of highway 50. It's possible some of our southern mountains may see advisory snowfall amounts with NBM probabilities of up to 50% for amounts 6 inches or more. Probabilities drop to around 20% or less for amounts greater than 8 inches across the southern mountains. This system will bring some cooling to the southeast plains as it moves through but its warm source region should keep precipitation types mostly as rain.

Upper ridging returns for Sunday and Monday with a return to dry and warmer conditions. -KT

AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z WEDNESDAY/

Issued at 1010 PM MST Mon Feb 9 2026

VFR conditions are forecast at all three terminals (KALS, KCOS, KPUB) for the next 24 hours. A cold front has dropped south across KCOS and KPUB with north winds, which could gust in excess of 20 kts at KCOS. Winds will subside by morning. Mid and high clouds are expected, with a brief period of low stratus at KCOS and KPUB in the morning. Mozley

PUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

None.