Well and in fort collins, sometimes camera gets knocked out. So blustery in weld county this afternoon. Some of the peak gust s we have seen so far, 4570 miles an hour winds along the front range, including dia, arvada, black hawk, nederland, longmont, areas in and around greeley and southeastern wyoming where there effect. Moisture, drying up with all the wind coming off the front range overnight period. We will get you into drive time with temperatures close to 60 but those gusty winds will continue for several more hours. Coming up in our main weather segment, we will talk about how much longer the mild march weather pattern will continue and, mark, we have a chance for rain and snow in the extended forecast. We will talk about that as well. Wow, that is a busy map. Yeah. All right, kathy, talk to you again. The faa and ntsb are investigating a plane crash in el paso county, the single engine plane crashed near palmer lake before 8 00. The time of the crash, it is unclear whether or
Im greg moss in for gary today. Cheryl and cory are with me today. Marty is in the backyard. We could see wet weather today. Especially in the foothills. Weve started the drive on a beautiful morning. We have a clear sky. Not quite blue yet. Good air quality today no, wood burning restrictions in effect. Dry locally, but were seeing dry snow showers in some of the mountains. We still have snow going on in western nebraska. All from yesterdays storm. We had a little bit of wet snow as the thing came through yesterday. It continues going along all the way just south of alliance and scotts bluff and bridgeport this morning. In the 30s right now. Close to 45 degrees by 9 00 a. M. I think we top out in the low 50s today. Very close to an average temperature. Clouds are going to thicken in the foothills early today. I think we see snow reforming before lunchtime. And, of course, as we go into weekend, if we dont get much moisture today and tomorrow, a while. I will have that in your planning
Still awaiting the arrival of the ntsb to investigate this small plane crash. We got pictures from witnesses who happened to be taking picturion nearby. You can see it crashed on the hillside just off highway 105. More than dozen houses just that close to the crash site. As for why it crashed, the El Paso Sheriffs Office and soon out. It appeared the plane of the some mechanical issues and obviously there have been high winds but theres no investigation at this time to indicate what exactly was the result of this crash. Reporter after that fire was all put out you can see just a metal shell and as we really all thats left of the plane. When it did crash and all that fire shot everywhere it did cause a fire in the area, but crews were able to contain that to only about a quarter of an acre. It is quite windy out here today, a lot of dry grass, high fire warning today. But again, they were able to contain the fire. A small plane has crashed the Southeast Side of palmer lake. We still don
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