Matt Meister

3 days ago | fox21news.com | Matt Meister

Posted: Jun 24, 2025 / 07:35 AM MDT Updated: Jun 24, 2025 / 07:35 AM MDT (SOUTHERN COLORADO) – Abundant water in the atmosphere will combine with some energy moving up from the south and wind shear to make severe thunderstorms likely on Tuesday afternoon, June 24. The most likely area for severe storms, and coincidentally the largest hail, looks to be from I-25 to Highway 71 and north of Highway 50.

1 week ago | fox21news.com | Matt Meister

Posted: Jun 17, 2025 / 07:41 AM MDT Updated: Jun 17, 2025 / 07:47 AM MDT (SOUTHERN COLORADO) – An early morning cold front has increased low-level moisture over eastern Colorado. Dewpoints should remain above 50° for most areas east of the mountains as we hit the middle of the day Tuesday, June 17. This moisture is the available energy for storms to form.

3 weeks ago | fox21news.com | Matt Meister

Posted: Jun 6, 2025 / 07:50 AM MDT Updated: Jun 6, 2025 / 07:50 AM MDT (SOUTHERN COLORADO) — Thunderstorms are expected again over Southern Colorado on Friday, and some of them are going to be strong. There’s a lot of wind shear in the atmosphere today, and that is going to help storms rotate. When storms spin, they organize and strengthen.

3 weeks ago | fox21news.com | Matt Meister

(SOUTHERN COLORADO) — Severe thunderstorms are often expected over eastern Colorado in early June. The image below from the Colorado Climate Center shows a smoothed version of severe weather days over a two-week running mean (thick black lines). Significant severe weather reports are also represented over a running two-week mean (thinner blue line). For tornadoes, the frequency ramps up through May and reaches a peak in early June, with a slow decline through the summer and into the fall.

3 weeks ago | fox21news.com | Matt Meister

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