DENVER – Prepare to say goodbye to spring-like weather in the Denver metro as a complex winter storm arrives from the southwest by the weekend.
While there’s a higher degree of confidence about what the storm will do in the high country (dropping between eight to 16 inches of snow) starting late Friday afternoon through the end of Saturday, there are still a lot of unknowns as to what that will look like for the Front Range and the I-25 Corridor, forecasters with the National Weather Service (NWS) in Boulder said Thursday.
Winter storm warnings are set to take effect for Aspen, Buford, Columbine, Crested Butte, Hahns Peak, Lake City, Marble, Ouray, Snowmass, Taylor Park, Telluride, Toponas, Trappers Lake, and Vail starting from 11 a.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Saturday. Winter weather advisories will also go into effect starting at 5 p.m. Friday for the Upper Yampa River Basin, which includes Steamboat Springs, Rio Blanco, and the eastern Uinta Mountains from 5 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Saturday.