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Weather Watch

Friday: A 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Increasing clouds, with a high near 72. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northeast in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Night: A 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. East northeast wind 10 to 15 mph becoming north northwest after midnight.

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Outdoors

COLORADO SPRINGS — A bear estimated at 225-250 pounds that three times entered a Colorado Springs home and returned repeatedly to the scene during the past week was trapped Friday night by Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers and humanely euthanized as required by state policy on dangerous bears. Last Sunday, the bear walked through an open door into a mud room of a home in the Broadmoor neighborhood, a wooded area known to be prime bear habitat in the southwest foothills of Colorado Springs.

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Weather Watch

Thursday: A 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. Breezy, with a southwest wind 15 to 20 mph becoming west northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 42. North northwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west southwest after midnight.

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all Purgatoire River Call as of: 05/08/2023 Johns Flood Ditch: Priority #20, Appropriation Date: 10/07/1865 Trinidad Reservoir Report: Release 146.30 AF Inflow 133.81 AF - 67.46 CFS Evaporation 16.51 AF Content 22,605 AF Elevation 6,186.26 Precipitation 0 Downstream Call: Highland Canal; Appropriation Date: 05/31/1866 Jeff Montoya, Water Commissioner Colorado Division of Water Div. 2, District 19 .

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Wednesday: A 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Windy, with a southwest wind 10 to 20 mph becoming south 20 to 30 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Night: A 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before midnight. Mostly clear, with a low around 44. Windy, with a south wind 25 to 35 mph becoming southwest 15 to 25 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 50 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

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