Rain is popping to snow throughout the metro space because the winter storm that hit the mountains over the previous two days continues to brush throughout Colorado on Saturday.
The Denver space began seeing snow mixing in with the rain round 6 a.m. Saturday morning, according to National Weather Service meteorologists.
“On the southeast aspect of the metro space and up in direction of DIA, we’ve obtained stories of as much as two inches of snow already on the bottom,” NWS meteorologist Russell Danielson mentioned. “On the west aspect, it’s simply beginning to flip over from snow into rain.”
Denver is projected to see between 3 and seven inches, with the heaviest totals within the southwestern suburbs of Denver, according to the National Weather Service.
Different areas, particularly within the mountains, had seen a foot or extra of snow Saturday morning, in accordance with up to date snow totals.
Danielson mentioned Arvada, Greely and Erie had simply turned over from rain to snow round 10 a.m. Saturday, however cities like Boulder have been nonetheless caught within the rain interval.
“It’s been very gradual to vary to snow on the west aspect of the metro space, however the switchover is coming and is coming quickly,” Danielson mentioned.
Throughout the metro space, all rain will grow to be snow by 2 p.m. and temperatures will hit to 33 levels by 5 p.m., according to NWS forecasters. Town can anticipate temperatures to drop to 27 levels in a single day, with snow persevering with till 11 p.m.
The moist, heavy snow can result in harmful driving situations that may change shortly, meteorologists stated in a post on X.
“The moist, heavy snow is harmful within the sense that it may well accumulate in a short time on roadways,” Danielson mentioned, “However then again, a variety of it’s melting on roadways as a result of it’s center of the day and you’ve got that acceleration so it isn’t as icy.”
Many roads throughout the state are experiencing delays, closures and accidents due to the winter climate.’
“The storm began to select up round 8 a.m. and can stay at its strongest for the subsequent 5 to 7 hours,” Danielson mentioned. “The heaviest bands of snow are coming by means of proper now.”
The National Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Advisory Saturday from 10 a.m. to midnight for the metro space, Boulder and Interstate-70 east of Denver by means of Limon.
Round 5 p.m., Danielson mentioned the strongest waves of snow may have wrapped up within the Denver space, however the far west aspect of the metro might see extra exercise.
Colorado’s subsequent likelihood of snow after tonight is late Wednesday evening into Thursday, however there’s a really small likelihood the snow will stick or accumulate a lot, Danielson mentioned.
