Colorado’s weather is all over the map this week — from winter storms in the west to wildfire warnings in the southeast.
“That’s March-April Colorado weather for you,” Russell Danielson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder, told CPR News. Danielson said spring in Colorado is “officially underway.”
Snow is expected to begin falling in the western mountains Monday evening, with the heaviest accumulation forecasted for Tuesday morning. By Tuesday evening, some areas could see between six and twelve inches on the ground, with the San Juans receiving the highest totals. However, as Norv Larson, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction, explained, snow will continue to fall sporadically throughout the week, making it difficult to pinpoint exact totals…