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After a mild and dry start to the week, Colorado has big changes ahead in the forecast before the weekend arrives.
DENVER — After a mild and dry start to the week across Colorado, an overnight cold front has dropped temperatures significantly.
The cold front that arrived early Thursday will drop the high temperatures into the 30s in Denver for both Thursday and Friday with mostly cloudy skies.
While it’ll be significantly colder and cloudier, we’ve only got a chance for a few flurries on Friday. Little or no accumulation is expected from those flurries in Denver.
In the higher elevations of western Colorado, snow will develop from southwest-to-northeast Thursday afternoon. A few spots in Colorado’s southwestern mountains (the San Juans and the West Elks, in particular) could end up with 6-12 inches of accumulation by Saturday morning.
A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for in southwest Colorado for 5-10 inches of snow from 5 p.m. Thursday through 11 p.m. Friday.
Most higher elevation areas along and north of Interstate 70 will end up with 3-7 inches of total snowfall from this event, so it’ll be a notably lighter event for our northern mountains.
Light snow continues in the mountains for Saturday, but winds will pick up on Saturday and Sunday across eastern Colorado. While the Denver area will probably stay dry this weekend, the winds will be noticeable for Sunday in particular.
Temperatures top out in the 40s both days this weekend, before highs push into the 50s for Monday and Tuesday of next week, and we could reach into the low 60s by Wednesday and Thursday.
Cooler, cloudy Thursday with chance for mountain snow
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