A small, but sneaky storm will dump heavy snow and snarl travel in Colorado through Friday, with Denver near the heart of the storm.
A compact but potent winter storm will take just the right track to bring heavy snow to parts of Colorado, including the Denver metro area, from Thursday night to Friday morning, AccuWeather meteorologists advise.
Most storms that swing eastward across the Rockies tend to be large and often get shredded by the higher terrain. Sometimes, smaller, more intense storms hold together and can produce heavy snow in a narrow swath just to the north. An example of one such storm will take a path across central Colorado through Friday before diving southward over the Plains.
“The heaviest snow will fall, as usual, over the Rockies west of Denver, but several inches to a half a foot of snow can pile up in the city and surrounding areas mainly during Thursday night,” AccuWeather Meteorologist Brandon Buckingham said…