Scattered flurries falling throughout Colorado on Tuesday morning will flip into heavy snow within the afternoon and night, based on the Nationwide Climate Service.
Essentially the most snow will fall in Colorado’s mountains and foothills, however the Denver space can nonetheless count on to see a number of inches accumulate in a single day, NWS forecasters stated.
Downtown Denver and the Denver Worldwide Airport are forecast to see 3 to six inches of snowfall between 5 a.m. Tuesday and 5 p.m. Wednesday. Different Tuesday morning snow forecasts embrace:
- 2 to six inches in Arvada, Aurora, Broomfield, Centennial, Highlands Ranch, Lakewood, Northglenn and Parker
- 3 to 7 inches in Brighton and Lakewood
- 4 to eight inches within the Foothills, together with Golden, Evergreen and Conifer
- 4 to 10 inches within the Elk Mountains vary of the Rocky Mountains in western Colorado, together with Chair Mountain
- 6 to 10 inches in Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park, together with at Bear Lake and alongside Path Ridge Street
- 2 to 13 inches in southern Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, together with Cumbres Cross, La Manga Cross and Wolf Creek Cross
- 1 to 11 inches in southern Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains, together with Culebra Peak and Cordova Cross
Widespread ski areas, together with Vail, Loveland, Winter Park, Copper Mountain and Keystone may also count on to see between 2 and seven inches of contemporary snow stack up by Wednesday night time.
NWS forecasters stated the snow will decide up round 5 p.m. Tuesday and proceed by about 11 a.m. Wednesday.
A Winter Climate Advisory shall be in impact from 2 p.m. Tuesday to 11 a.m. Wednesday for many of northern and central Colorado, together with Larimer, Weld, Jefferson, Broomfield, Douglas, Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Morgan, Lincoln, Logan, Washington, Sedgwick and Phillips counties.
“Plan on slippery highway situations,” forecasters stated within the advisory. “The hazardous situations will influence the Tuesday night and Wednesday morning commutes.”
Temperatures in Denver will drop down into the one digits in a single day, however it might really feel as chilly as 10 levels under zero with windchill, forecasters stated.
Single-digit lows will return in a single day Wednesday into Thursday as Denver sees not less than two days of consecutive, below-freezing temperatures. It’s nonetheless up within the air as as to if the town will break that streak Thursday afternoon or if the arctic chilly will proceed by Friday morning.
Temperatures within the Jap Plains and Foothills may also drop near zero Tuesday night time, NWS forecasters stated in a Hazardous Climate Outlook. With windchill, it is going to really feel as chilly as minus 15 and frostbite will happen in as little as half-hour.
Forecasters stated these areas will see temperature highs within the teenagers Wednesday and below-zero lows in a single day into Thursday.
One other spherical of sunshine snow is anticipated to hit the Foothills and Denver space on Friday, forecasters stated.
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