70s and 80s return Saturday with pockets of smoke and isolated afternoon storms

Today’s Forecast:

You can trade the sweater and the latte, for a cold brew and a tee shirt today in southern Colorado. Our "fall preview" is now in the rear-view mirror and temperatures today will rebound to the 70s to low 80s this afternoon. This is still below average - by 5-7 degrees - but it will ultimately feel like a normal September day,

Fog will continue to dissipate, leaving mostly skies across southern Colorado by late morning. Wildfire smoke from Canada will make skies look hazy. It will mostly be elevated but it has the potential to be thick at times, particularly across parts of the Pikes Peak Region into northern Pueblo.

Clouds will increase this afternoon as weak energy and moisture from the west interacts with a weakening stationary boundary east of the Front Range mount