Snow was falling in the mountains Thursday morning and will spread across Denver and the Eastern Plains by early afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.
On the Front Range and Eastern Plains, snowfall will be mixed with rain showers, according to a NWS Hazardous Weather Outlook. There will also be a chance of thunderstorms Thursday afternoon and evening.
Warm temperatures will limit snow accumulation in Denver and other lower-elevation areas, but the metro area could see an inch or two stack up, forecasters said in the outlook.
As of Thursday morning, snow total forecasts were available through 6 a.m. Friday. The storm is expected to continue through Saturday morning.
Thursday snow forecasts include:
- A dusting to 3 inches in the Denver area
- 4 to 10 inches on U.S. 40’s Berthoud Pass
- 3 to 8 inches at the Eisenhower-Johnson Tunnels
- 2 to 6 inches on Floyd Hill and Kenosha Pass
- 4 to 10 inches on northern Colorado’s Park Range of the Rocky Mountains, including Mount Zirkel
- 4 to 10 inches on the Ten Mile Range of the Rocky Mountains, including Breckenridge
- 2 to 5 inches in Estes Park
- 3 to 8 inches at Copper Mountain, Keystone Ski Area Summit, Loveland Pass and Vail Pass
Forecasters said snow and rain will continue overnight Thursday into Friday and then into Saturday. The storm is expected to wrap up on Saturday at about noon in Denver and by midnight in the mountains.
Forecasters said that sunny weather will return and a warming trend will start on Sunday.
Denver will see temperatures in the low 60s on Monday and in the 70s on Tuesday and Wednesday, NWS forecasters said.
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