Warm and breezy weather will be the main story across the Four Corners through the rest of the week.
Today brings mostly sunny skies with northwest winds picking up this afternoon, especially near the mountains where gusts could reach 20 miles per hour.
Temperatures are a little cooler than yesterday, but they’ll rebound quickly.
By tomorrow and into the weekend, highs will climb well above mid-March averages, running about 10 to 20 degrees warmer than normal.
Many lower valleys could see temperatures pushing into the 70s, with some spots across southeast Utah even approaching the 80-degree mark.
Conditions stay mostly dry through the weekend, though a weak disturbance could brush the northern mountains late Saturday into Sunday with only light precipitation at the highest elevations.
With warm temperatures, low humidity, and periodic gusty winds, forecasters say fire weather concerns may increase across parts of southwest Colorado and southeast Utah.
We’re seeing 13.4 inches of snow depth at lizard head pass; 14.6 inches above Mancos; and 18.7 inches at Red Mountain Pass We’re averaging 54% of our median snowpack.
