Bitter cold and snow keeping Colorado in the deep freeze
Colorado is under a First Alert Weather Day through Thursday for the combination of extreme cold and snowfall. Another Arctic Blast along with a Pacific storm system are teaming up to bring in the prolonged return to wintery weather. Because of the snow and bitterly cold weather, some Colorado schools are on delayed starts.
Many areas of our home state have a Winter Weather Advisory in effect through late Wednesday morning. And while this will not be a major snowstorm, it will pack enough of a punch where the surge of snow will impact travel. The Denver metro area, surrounding suburbs, and most of the eastern plains may see anywhere from 1 to 3 inches of snow through 11 am Wednesday. Areas in and near the foothills may pick up 2 to 4 inches of snow.
Front Range and west central Mountain areas may see 4 to 8 inches of snow through Wednesday afternoon with lighter amounts for the southern mountains.
While snow will start to lessen in intensity Wednesday afternoon the cold air will linger through early Thursday morning. With the Front Range and eastern plains not getting above freezing until Thursday afternoon. Overnight lows through that time frame will be in the single digits to below zero. With wind chill temperatures feeling as cold as 10 to 20 below zero across eastern Colorado!
Wind chill temperatures on Thursday morning will again be below zero and highs above freezing arriving later in the day.
A bigger warm-up coming our way on Friday Valentine's Day! With the return of the 50s!
