Casey Dorn

Today's Forecast: It will be a beautiful day in southern Colorado with plenty of sunshine. Dry air is moving into the state, and helps to keep skies clear today along with building high pressure.

Colorado's snowpack has mostly melted, but hikers are still hitting pockets of deep snow on higher summits. Here's the science behind why snowpack can be low overall, but still high on certain peaks.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — Colorado's sunshine is already more potent than at lower elevations because the thinner atmosphere at higher altitudes provides less protection from ultraviolet radiation.

Today's Forecast: The big story this weekend in southern Colorado is heat. It's June - so this is not surprising - but, we're much closer to record highs this weekend than average highs.

The summer solstice provides Colorado with its highest solar insolation, the amount of solar energy received, of the entire year. But the hottest days average almost a month later. Why?

Today's Forecast: The heat continues Saturday in southern Colorado with many areas warming to the 90s, and the rest of us reaching the 80s.

PUEBLO, Colo. (KOAA) — Drought conditions are forcing Pueblo County farmers to make early season adjustments, with some fields sitting bare during what would normally be peak growing season.

Local ski shops are cautiously hopeful that the development of El Niño could mean better snow on Colorado's ski slopes next winter.

Today's Forecast: Yesterday's highs along the southern Front Range corridor were hotter than any day in 2025.

Today's Forecast: A dome of hot sinking air is parked over the western part of the country, and will bring above average temperatures back to southern Colorado on Friday.