El Niño watch issued by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center
Climate scientists estimate the warm weather pattern could begin to develop as early as May.
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Climate scientists estimate the warm weather pattern could begin to develop as early as May.
Mother Nature is making it easy to stay home and social distance this week with a snowy and unusually cold weather pattern.
Many have raised the question about why the weather did what it did for so many days in row with little to no change during the month of May.
That's because we will have a strong westerly jet stream above us but occasional bouts of easterly winds at the surface.
El Niño can impact global weather, including the storm track across the United States.
High winds are expected to be an issue at times over the next 48 hours due to a strong jet stream in the area.
The Climate Prediction Center is now forecasting a 75 percent chance of La Niña during fall and winter 2016–17.
Tuesday's elevated risk of severe weather could bring the strongest storms that we've seen in several weeks.
Clouds will be minimal through Friday, although the active weather returns by Saturday afternoon.
The Broncos game coincidentally falls on the most active day of our weather forecast.
We cracked the 50 degree mark downtown but may not do it again until the end of this week.
It's all part of an active jet stream that currently has a series of weather systems riding along it.
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