The sun comes out in Denver on Monday, Feb 25 following the weekend snowstorm
TUESDAY MORNING UPDATE: 1-3 inches of snow for Denver this afternoon. Snow showers should begin between noon and 3 pm, with the most snow expected to fall at higher elevations on the southern and western sides of the metro area. Winter weather advisories are out for the western mountains (Steamboat to Vail to Monarch Pass and points west) for moderate snow accumulations.
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The largest snow event of the season thus far hit the Front Range and Denver metro area on Sunday, bringing 8-12" of snow to most of the city, with even higher amounts reported in the foothills west of town. The same storm system absolutely slammed Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas today with a historic blizzard (Amarillo, Texas received 19" of snow along with 65+ mph wind gusts!). The system first arrived in the mountains on Saturday afternoon, lasting through Saturday night, with some areas receiving good totals (Monarch, Keystone, and Steamboat did the best), before winds shifted to the east around midnight, bringing heavy snow to the Front Range. Roads were quite treacherous on Sunday, and were still pretty bad for many areas on Monday morning as well. Monday brought sunshine and warmer temperatures, with highs reaching the 30's, but unsettled weather will return for Tuesday.
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The largest snow event of the season thus far hit the Front Range and Denver metro area on Sunday, bringing 8-12" of snow to most of the city, with even higher amounts reported in the foothills west of town. The same storm system absolutely slammed Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas today with a historic blizzard (Amarillo, Texas received 19" of snow along with 65+ mph wind gusts!). The system first arrived in the mountains on Saturday afternoon, lasting through Saturday night, with some areas receiving good totals (Monarch, Keystone, and Steamboat did the best), before winds shifted to the east around midnight, bringing heavy snow to the Front Range. Roads were quite treacherous on Sunday, and were still pretty bad for many areas on Monday morning as well. Monday brought sunshine and warmer temperatures, with highs reaching the 30's, but unsettled weather will return for Tuesday.
Storm system on Tuesday will bring moderate snow to the mountains, light snow to Denver
The next storm system will arrive on Tuesday, bringing a good round of snow to the mountains behind a northwesterly flow, with moderate totals expected for the northern and central mountains, with the Park Range/Steamboat, Vail/Beaver Creek, and the Front Range mountains likely to be favored the most. As winds shift to the north on Tuesday afternoon, snow showers should develop in the Front Range urban corridor. Not much accumulation is expected, but areas from Denver metro up to Ft. Collins should see around an inch or so. Models are showing winds from approximately due north, but a slight wind shift either direction could alter snow totals for the metro area (northwest = bad for Denver snow, northeast = good for Denver snow), so check back in tomorrow morning to see if any changes have been made to the forecast. The snow should conclude by about midnight, with overnight lows Wednesday morning expected to drop into the teens in the metro area, and upper single digits in the foothills.
Clouds hang around most of the week before sunny, warmer weather arrives for the weekend
Partly to mostly cloudy skies will continue for most of the state on Wednesday and Thursday, with slightly warmer temperatures each day (30's for Denver on Wed-Thur, 40's by Friday). A weak storm system could affect Colorado on Thursday, but at the moment, models are in disagreement on the track of the system, and whether or not it will bring any snow. A ridge of high pressure will move into the Rockies this weekend, bringing sunny weather and warmer temperatures for the first few days of March. We could see high temperatures reach the 50's in Denver, which would melt a lot of the snow that fell this past weekend.
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