Colorado Springs is forecast for a generally nice and mild Saturday — certainly nicer than last weekend. Starting the day, we'll have some light fog over Monument Hill, and patchy low clouds in other areas. Through the morning, we'll generally have a northerly wind - which is cold and dry. Thank last night's gusty cold front which brought widespread 40-60 mph wind gusts to southern Colorado. By lunch we should reach the low 50s with our airflow switching to a southeasterly direction around a high moving northeast of the state. This will pull moisture back in from the Gulf of Mexico in what is known as "return flow" in meteorology - basically the airflow we often get after a cold front on the western edge of a high-pressure system. This moisture will work into our southern and central mountains during the afternoon producing clouds and eventually scattered showers with a few rumbles of thunder. While our low-level winds will be out of the southeast, our mid-level winds will be out of the southwest. This will cause these showers to push off the mountains and into the I-25 corridor between 4-8 p.m. tonight depending on what time showers end up getting started. They'll be low-impact and isolated in the Pikes Peak Region. Highs today will reach the low 60s - about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. Winds this afternoon will be mildly breezy - 10-15 mph sustained, with 25 mph gusts.
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