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Two rivers in southeast Colorado carried flood warnings into Friday morning, and neither of them was fed by the mountains. The Purgatoire River near Las Animas crested at 10.46 feet about 2 p.m. Thursday, a foot and a half over minor flood stage, after rising from a trickle in a few hours before dawn. The Arkansas River at Lamar passed bankfull at 10.14 feet just after midnight Friday, with Prowers County emergency management reporting water in low ground along the river Thursday afternoon. The cause was a single night of rain, Wednesday into Thursday, that fell on ground still soaked from the wettest October the lower Arkansas Valley has recorded.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO — A fast-moving storm is sweeping across southern Colorado, and some areas could see rain change over to wet snow tonight, Thursday, November 5. Forecasters give it about a 30 percent chance that rain turns to snow around Monument Hill, across northern El Paso County, and over the Raton Mesa near Walsenburg and Trinidad. Because the storm is moving quickly, any slushy accumulation should stay mostly on grassy surfaces, not on roads. Radar already shows snow falling in the central mountains, rain across the Arkansas River Valley, and a rain and snow mix in between.
The FOX21 Storm Team expects calm weather and rising temperatures across Southern Colorado over the coming days, while snow buildup threatens El Paso County by the 17th.
Today: Saturday starts off cold with 36 degrees in Colorado Springs but warms up to a beautiful day. We're tracking blue skies and sunshine with a high of 63 in Colorado Springs and 65 in Pueblo. Winds stay mild and under 10 mph. Cloud will be few and far between over the weekend.
(SOUTHERN COLORADO) — Colorado loosens its tie for Friday as cloudy conditions give way to a beautiful weekend. The FOX21 Storm Team says that after clouds blanket a majority of the Centennial State today, sunshine returns all weekend. Temperatures remain stagnant for the forecasting region. Colorado Springs will see temperatures near the average at 55 […]
(SOUTHERN COLORADO) — Another round of storms is pushing into the Southeastern Plains, which could bring snow to Olympic City, USA, for the first time this season, according to the FOX21 Storm Team. Rain and snow move in Wednesday evening and continue intermittently overnight. Temperatures for Colorado Springs remain...
Crews were called to a structure fire in downtown Colorado Springs early Thursday morning. This is a developing story.
(SOUTHERN COLORADO) — After trace amounts of snow in Colorado Springs and thunderstorms in Pueblo overnight, conditions return to clear and sunny, according to the FOX21 Storm Team. Temperatures in the region remain slightly below seasonal averages until a warming trend takes Colorado Springs back to the sixties. Woodland Park saw 2 inches of snow […]
Friday will stay nice and so will the weekend in southern Colorado. Highs are expected to be in the 50s and 60s with dry time and sunshine.
Three words could signal extraordinary danger along mountain highways and high-elevation communities.
Skies began to clear Tuesday, but while floodwaters from almost two weeks of on-and-off heavy rain still inundated parts of the U.S. Southwest, other areas left mud-caked by receding torrents presented homeowners and business owners with the filthy work of cleanup. Jack Ellis, a retired schoolteacher, surveyed damage along the...
Winter Weather Advisory begins at 2 p.m. Wednesday as heavy mountain snow threatens travel through early Thursday.
Jimmy Zee says her house is falling into a muddy sinkhole as her community on the Navajo Nation deals with repeated flash flooding.
"I've lived in CO my entire life and didn't know that highway was there."
A second round of historic flooding hit southwest Colorado, southeast Utah and northwest New Mexico on Sunday, Nov. 1, just 10 days after the October flood. As of early Monday, Nov. 2, the Piedra River had set a new record and the San Juan River at Pagosa Springs came within about a foot of its 1911 high. The National Weather Service in Grand Junction had flood warnings in place for five Colorado counties and one in Utah, labeled a particularly dangerous situation.
Snow may reach northern El Paso County's I-25 corridor while plains face a wet Thursday.
TODAY: Temps will be similar to Tuesday, sitting in the 50s in Colorado Springs and Pueblo. Mountain snow begins in the early afternoon. Winter Weather Advisories are in place across Park County, the Central Mountains, and portions of I-70 where cumulative snow and road impacts are expected. Light accumulations are possible for Teller County and other high elevation areas in the Pikes Peak Region. Expect scattered rain showers and thunderstorms in lower-lying portions of Southern Colorado. Flood Warnings are in place across parts of the San Luis Valley, with rising water levels likely along the Rio Grande, Conejos, and other rivers and creeks in the area.
Just so sad, the devastation; nature can be brutal.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – A developing weather system could bring up to 10 inches of snow to Colorado's central mountains Wednesday into early Thursday, while Colorado Springs faces increasing rain chances, possible thunderstorms and a rain-snow mix overnight.
Southwest Colorado roads got hammered with rain when Hurricane Trudy's remnants stalled over the region.
