A large storm system driving cold late season air into the West today will bring additional snow from the mountains to Washington to New Mexico including Colorado. Spells of heavy rain and strong, gusty winds will affect low elevations.

Things get real interesting towards mid week as this system crosses the Rockies into the Plains.

Like we’ve seen a lot of in recent weeks, we’ll have a distinct wintry side in the West while summer-like in the East with all sorts of nasty, stormy weather in between with tornadic supercells and flash flooding a very real threat.

GFS surface

Strong winds will round the base of the trough today affecting much of the Desert Southwest.

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This system will provide the classic extremes in temperature.

See today’s video.

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