Weather science

Funnel clouds formed across Southwest Colorado last weekend as monsoon season was in full swing, but the spinning clouds didn’t appear to touch down to form tornadoes. Two pictures of funnel clouds...

Durangoans know James Coleman as the relatively new owner of Purgatory Resort and Hesperus Ski Area , but Outside magazine dubs him the “Ski King of the Southwest” in a profile in its online...

NASA’s three-week field study of snow conditions in the Silverton and Grand Mesa areas ends Saturday, after which scientists will analyze the data in an effort to develop satellites to provide snow...

Fish habitat in the upper Dolores River basin is at risk from overall warmer weather and longer, more intense droughts, according to a long-term climate study recently released by Trout Unlimited....

Weather, for many, is an innocuous topic reserved for filling dead air. For Jeff Givens, it’s the subject of his favorite hobby and an underserved area of news in Southwest Colorado. To love...

WASHINGTON – The most extreme tornado outbreaks are mysteriously spawning many more twisters than they did decades ago, a new study claimed. The once-every-five-years-or-so outbreak that might have...

Filling a gap in one of the nation’s largest weather forecasting blind spots, a new weather station installed at the Old Fort Lewis campus in southwestern La Plata County is now transmitting...

A cold front pushed its way into the region Friday, sending temperatures plunging and leading to icy conditions on mountain passes between Durango and Ouray. The snow started flying about 11:30...

Monsoons finally arrived in Southwest Colorado this week after a couple of brief flirtations earlier this summer, promising more rain for a parched region. There were two weak monsoon surges from...

A sporadic 12-day boating release from McPhee Dam into the Dolores River in June was hampered by uncertain runoff forecasts after a late-season snowfall, reservoir managers said at community...

It’s hot, it’s dry, and the question on many a Southwest Coloradoan’s mind is: Where did monsoon season go? “What? Those three days around the Fourth of July weren’t enough?” joked Joe Ramey, a...