Weather Alerts for Colorado

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1. Avalanche Warning for: Elkhead and Park Mountains; Grand and Battlement Mesas; Gore and Elk Mountains/Central Mountain Valleys; West Elk and Sawatch Mountains; Flat Tops; Northwestern San Juan Mountains; Southwest San Juan Mountains; West Jackson and West Grand Counties Above 9000 Feet; South and Southeast Grand/West Central and Southwest Boulder/Gilpin/Clear Creek/Summit/North and West Park Counties Above 9000 Feet; Eastern Sawatch Mountains above 11000 Ft; Eastern San Juan Mountains Above 10000 Ft

2. Avalanche Warning for: West Elk and Sawatch Mountains

3. Fire Weather Watch for: Fremont County Including Canon City/Howard/Texas Creek; Huerfano County Including Walsenburg

4. Fire Weather Watch for: Pueblo County Including Pueblo; Western Las Animas County Including Trinidad and Thatcher

5. Fire Weather Watch for: Southern El Paso County Including Fort Carson and Colorado Springs

6. High Wind Warning for: Del Norte Vicinity/Northern San Luis Valley Below 8500 Ft; Alamosa Vicinity/Central San Luis Valley Below 8500 Ft; Southern San Luis Valley; Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 8500 And 11000 Ft; Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains above 11000 Ft; Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Between 7500 and 11000 Ft; Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Ft; Western/Central Fremont County Below 8500 Ft; Wet Mountain Valley Below 8500 Ft; Wet Mountains between 6300 and 10000Ft; Wet Mountains above 10000 Ft; Canon City Vicinity/Eastern Fremont County; Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet; Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Ft; Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Ft

7. High Wind Watch for: Larimer and Boulder Counties Between 6000 and 9000 Feet; Jefferson and West Douglas Counties Above 6000 Feet/Gilpin/Clear Creek/Northeast Park Counties Below 9000 Feet; Boulder And Jefferson Counties Below 6000 Feet/West Broomfield County

8. High Wind Watch for: Teller County/Rampart Range above 7500fT/Pike's Peak Between 7500 And 11000 Ft; Pikes Peak above 11000 Ft; Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below 7500 Ft; Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below 7400 Ft

9. Red Flag Warning for: Crowley County Including Ordway; Otero County Including La Junta and Western Comanche Grasslands; Eastern Las Animas County Including Pinon Canyon; Kiowa County Including Eads; Bent County Including Las Animas; Prowers County Including Lamar; Baca County Including Springfield and Eastern Comanche Grasslands

10. Red Flag Warning for: Kit Carson County; Cheyenne; Wallace; Logan; Greeley; Wichita

11. Red Flag Warning for: North and Northeast Elbert County Below 6000 Feet/North Lincoln County; Southeast Elbert County Below 6000 Feet/South Lincoln County

12. Red Flag Warning for: Pueblo County Including Pueblo; Western Las Animas County Including Trinidad and Thatcher

13. Red Flag Warning for: Southern El Paso County Including Fort Carson and Colorado Springs

14. Wind Advisory for: Lower Yampa River Basin; Central Yampa River Basin; Grand Valley; Debeque to Silt Corridor; Central Colorado River Basin; Central Gunnison and Uncompahgre River Basin; Upper Gunnison River Valley; Paradox Valley/Lower Dolores River; Four Corners/Upper Dolores River; Animas River Basin; Southeast Utah; Eastern Uinta Basin; Arches/Grand Flat; Canyonlands/Natural Bridges

15. Winter Storm Warning for: Eastern Sawatch Mountains above 11000 Ft; Eastern San Juan Mountains Above 10000 Ft

16. Winter Storm Warning for: Elkhead and Park Mountains

17. Winter Storm Warning for: Gore and Elk Mountains/Central Mountain Valleys; Flat Tops

18. Winter Storm Warning for: Grand and Battlement Mesas; West Elk and Sawatch Mountains

19. Winter Storm Warning for: Northwestern San Juan Mountains; Southwest San Juan Mountains

20. Winter Storm Warning for: Roan and Tavaputs Plateaus

21. Winter Storm Warning for: Uncompahgre Plateau/Dallas Divide

22. Winter Storm Warning for: West Jackson and West Grand Counties Above 9000 Feet

23. Winter Weather Advisory for: Jackson County Below 9000 Feet; Grand and Summit Counties Below 9000 Feet

24. Winter Weather Advisory for: San Juan River Basin

25. Winter Weather Advisory for: South and East Jackson/Larimer/North and Northeast Grand/Northwest Boulder Counties Above 9000 Feet; South and Southeast Grand/West Central and Southwest Boulder/Gilpin/Clear Creek/Summit/North and West Park Counties Above 9000 Feet

26. Winter Weather Advisory for: Upper Yampa River Basin

27. Winter Weather Advisory for: Western Mosquito Range/East Lake County Above 11000 Ft; Leadville Vicinity/Lake County Below 11000 Ft; Western Chaffee County Between 9000 and 11000 Ft; La Garita Mountains Above 10000 Ft; Upper Rio Grande Valley/Eastern San Juan Mountains Below 10000 Ft

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Weather Topic: What is Rain?

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Rain Next Topic: Shelf Clouds

Precipitation in the form of water droplets is called rain. Rain generally has a tendency to fall with less intensity over a greater period of time, and when rainfall is more severe it is usually less sustained.

Rain is the most common form of precipitation and happens with greater frequency depending on the season and regional influences. Cities have been shown to have an observable effect on rainfall, due to an effect called the urban heat island. Compared to upwind, monthly rainfall between twenty and forty miles downwind of cities is 30% greater.

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Weather Topic: What is Sleet?

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Sleet Next Topic: Snow

Sleet is a form of precipitation in which small ice pellets are the primary components. These ice pellets are smaller and more translucent than hailstones, and harder than graupel. Sleet is caused by specific atmospheric conditions and therefore typically doesn't last for extended periods of time.

The condition which leads to sleet formation requires a warmer body of air to be wedged in between two sub-freezing bodies of air. When snow falls through a warmer layer of air it melts, and as it falls through the next sub-freezing body of air it freezes again, forming ice pellets known as sleet. In some cases, water droplets don't have time to freeze before reaching the surface and the result is freezing rain.

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