It’s been and cool and breezy end to the weekend, with gusts exceeding 30mph over most of the viewing area. These north-northwesterly winds will switch around to the southwest during the early morning hours, making for a completely different and nice start to the work week on St. Patrick’s Day. Your weather timeline shows you the details below.

Lows Sunday night will bottom out during the early morning, then begin to rise into the day. The kids will need a jacket in the morning (most won’t wear it of course), but not on the way home!

Winds will again gust in excess of 30mph in spots Monday.

Our attention then turns to precipitation and changes moving into the forecast starting very late Tuesday night or early Thursday morning. The Storm Prediction Center and Colorado State’s severe weather algorithm both give us a slight chance of seeing hail-producing storms early Wednesday, as shown below.

Storms and then rain will change over to snow as a system progresses across the state Wednesday. It will also be a windy one, with gusts possibly exceeding 40mph creating blizzard conditions in parts of the state.

Below, three computer model’s opinions of where the heaviest snow band will be placed as of this writing. At this point it appears the most accumulation will be in a band from western Iowa into the north-central part of the state. We’ll be fine tuning this forecast over the next couple of days. Suffice it to say we’ll have travel issues in some places Wednesday.

The 50 members of the European model’s ensemble suite are almost unanimously producing accumulating snow Wednesday. Chances don’t look as good at this point beyond that through the end of the month.

The high temperature forecasts and forecasts for the next seven days follow. Have a great St. Pat’s Day!