Warming trend continues
Sunday daytime high temperatures will stay above normal in the upper 50s and low 60s with gusty winds, at times, over the mountains and foothills.
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Callie Zanandrie grew up in Parker, Colorado. She studied journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder and meteorology at Mississippi State University. Callie's first job out of school was at KBCI in Boise, Idaho. From Boise, Callie traded in her hiking boots for flip-flops and moved to Florida to work for WWSB. However, home was calling and after a year Callie moved back to Denver to work at a competitor. Callie also shifted gears for a time from broadcast news into non-scripted television and worked as a producer at High New Entertainment and Double Act Entertainment.
Sunday daytime high temperatures will stay above normal in the upper 50s and low 60s with gusty winds, at times, over the mountains and foothills.
Let the melting begin! Saturday daytime highs will climb to the low 50s across the Denver metro area with 40s across the mountains.
Light snow will gradually clear by mid-morning across the Denver metro area with additional accumulation of an inch or less.
It's a First Alert Weather Day as moderate to heavy snow pours over the Front Range. Hardest hit will be the foothills west of Denver with over a foot of snow expected.
This weekend the cold air will retreat in Colorado and we are expecting above normal temperatures with mostly sunny conditions, leading to an uptick in wet avalanche activity.
After days of below freezing temperatures, warmer weather is on the way for the weekend.
Dangerously cold conditions as temperatures hit 7 degrees below zero at Denver International Airport on Wednesday morning, setting a new daily record. The previous record low temperature was -4 degrees, set in 2006.
Sunday there will be lingering light snow showers in the mountains with dry conditions for the Denver metro area. The next storm system arrives Monday.
A stretch of snow and cold is returning to Colorado, winter is back.
The silver lining of the warmer temperatures and lack of snowfall is that we have widespread safe avalanche conditions heading into the weekend.
Temperatures will stay well above normal on Sunday in the 60s for the Denver metro area with a few low 70s across southeast Colorado.
Denver normally receives over 7.8 inches of snow in February. It's the fourth snowiest month in Denver, behind December, April and March.
More snow is in the forecast for the weekend. We could see a return of dangerous conditions for areas in the Northern Colorado mountains that pick up more than 10 inches of new snowfall.
Daytime highs rebound to near normal in the mid-40s, so a big melting day is headed our way.
According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, the avalanche danger across much of Colorado has decreased to Moderate danger level (2 of 5), but the CAIC warns that 40% of avalanche deaths occur at the moderate danger level.