Colorado Weather: Warming trend thru mid-week

DENVER(CBS)-  On the big weather map we are monitoring a warming ridge of high pressure that will be working its way into the Rockies for the last few days of the month. 

This ridge is slowly eroding the cold pool of air brought in by Friday's Arctic Blast. 

Temperatures on Saturday warmed many areas above freezing helping to melt a lot of the snow that fell over the Front Range.

As the warming trend ramps up temperatures for both Sunday and Monday will warm back into the 50s over the eastern plains with mostly 30s and 40s holding on in the mountains and west.

The ridge will break down on Wednesday night as a cold front swoop thru with a cooling trough. 

This change will bring a few inches of snow in the mountains along with trace amounts possible in the Denver metro area Wednesday night into Thursday morning.