Colorado Springs, Colorado 7 Day Weather Forecast

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FXUS65 KPUB 020515
AFDPUB

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Pueblo CO
1015 PM MST Sun Feb 1 2026

.KEY MESSAGES...

- Warm and dry for most of the week with a brief cool down and
  chance for showers Tues Night through early Wednesday.

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.SHORT TERM /THROUGH MONDAY/...
Issued at 146 PM MST Sun Feb 1 2026

Flow aloft increases and becomes more west to northwesterly
over the 24 hour period as a weak disturbance glances by to the
north and east. Lee troughing and increasing high cloudiness
overnight will keep temperatures on the mild side for the
downslope regions of the lower eastern slopes while cold
trapping valleys likely drop into the single digits to around 10
degrees again tonight.

Westerly winds pick up during the morning hours for the gap flow
regions around Walsenburg and Canon City. Wind gusts in latest
HRRR stay fairly tame with pockets of 20-25 kts near the
mountains. However humidity recovery overnight will be poor and
there will be a window for some elevated fire weather conditions
in the morning as these winds kick up. Meanwhile, the
associated cold front will drop south of the Palmer Divide
Monday morning and through most of the southeast plains before
noon. Deep mixing will offset cold air advection aloft in the
afternoon, allowing temperatures warm into the 50s and lower 60s
across the plains in spite of cold air advection aloft.
Temperatures out west may be a degree or two cooler, but not
much cooler than those of today with highs in the 40s and 50s
for the valleys and mostly 30s for the mountains. This will be
a dry cold front, so no precipitation is expected. Humidity
values should see some slow rises in the afternoon behind the
front, which will keep them above critical thresholds in spite
of the breezy conditions. Therefore no fire weather highlights
look necessary at this time. -KT

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.LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/...
Issued at 255 AM MST Sun Feb 1 2026

It will be cooler on Tuesday behind the front, with highs in
the 50s across most of our forecast area. Models have been
coming in drier with the broad passing upper wave, only showing
isolated POPS Tuesday evening through Wednesday morning over and
near I-25. Currently just expecting brief light snow over
Palmer Divide, and potentially the Raton Mesa and portions of
the southern Sangres. If anything reaches the ground,
accumulations will be light and little to no impacts are
expected, outside of the slight chance for briefly slick roads
Wed AM. NBM probabilities continue to show less than an inch of
snow up to the 75 percentile. Some spotty 1 inch amounts start
to show up in the high end outliers of the ensemble members and
even these amounts are lower than advertised in runs from
yesterday.

Looking further into the week, high pressure will once again build
in from the west. Another warming and drying trend will set in, with
highs climbing back into the 60s over the plains. Current wind
forecast looks too light for any fire weather concerns, but will
keep an eye on trends moving forward.

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.AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z TUESDAY/...
Issued at 1015 PM MST Sun Feb 1 2026

VFR conditions are expected at COS, PUB and ALS over the next
24 hours, with increasing mid and high level clouds through the
morning. Generally light, diurnal wind regimes can be expected
at the terminals through mid Monday morning, with a passing cold
front developing breezy northeast winds 10-20kts at COS and PUB
between 16Z-18Z Monday.

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.PUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
None.

&&

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SHORT TERM...KT
LONG TERM...GARBEROGLIO
AVIATION...MW