Travelers heading from the High Plains to the Colorado mountains should be prepared for slushy roads and delays as snow falls in portions of Colorado and Wyoming. A foot or so may pile up over the mountains.
Snow is headed for Colorado. As the setup from Friday to Saturday will demonstrate, a major storm is unnecessary for a significant accumulation in the Rockies. Enough snow will fall to delight snow sports enthusiasts but make for slippery travel over the mountains. There’s a chance roads could get dicey in part of the Denver metro area as well, AccuWeather meteorologists say.
The snow will unfold as an area of high pressure slides southeastward across the Great Plains. As the pressure rises, it will create a northeasterly flow of air that will literally climb thousands of feet from the Plains to the Colorado Front Range. As this air ascends, it will cool, and moisture will condense, releasing some rain at first but then a change to snow.
Several inches to a foot of snow will fall on parts of the northern and central Rockies in Colorado from late Friday to early Saturday. A few inches of snow will also extend out to the foothills west of Denver and other metro areas along the Interstate 25 corridor of northern Colorado and southern Wyoming.