Latest update: 11/29/2009
Colorado's location and topography combine to create some of the most unique weather patterns in the country: severe thunderstorms, lightning, hail, tornadoes, heavy rain and flooding in the summer, and heavy snow and blizzards in the winter. Because of these conditions, weather watchers and spotters stay busy year-round.
This weather page is not intended to provide you with specific detailed information about Colorado weather. Instead, this page has a few links which can help you to find out more of what you want to know about the weather in Colorado, and to steer you to the people responsible for coordinating the Skywarn efforts in this section.
There are plenty of web sites that have current weather for this section. Some of these are more commercial in nature and intended for the general public, such as the TV stations and newspapers. Others, like the sites run by NOAA have current weather statements for different areas in this section. Others are intended for researchers or scientists who are trying to understand weather phenomena. Below are a few of these links. If you know of other interesting weather links you'd like to see on this page, please drop me a line and I'll add it.
Here in Colorado, there are a number of Skywarn-trained amateur radio groups who have formalized working relationships with the NWS offices in their areas. Again, since this page isn't intended to provide you with all there is to know about Skywarn, several links are provided below which contain much more detailed information about Skywarn in Colorado and about Skywarn in general.
EMWIN is a suite of data access methods which make available a live stream of weather and other critical emergency information. Each method has unique advantages. EMWIN's present methods in use or under development for disseminating the basic datastream include:
Radio
Internet
Satellite
For more information, visit the NWS EMWIN page at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/emwin/