February’s first storm of the month is targeting the Rockies this weekend. The storm system will be bringing in lots of snow for the Colorado mountains and a rain/snow mix over the eastern plains. There is lots of uncertainty about how much snow will fall over the Denver metro area with many factors coming into play with this storm system.
The storm will be pushing in from the southwest Friday on into the weekend. The system has many different ingredients coming together all at once. First off it is becoming a closed low separating from the strong jet stream flow. This makes it difficult to forecast the track it will take. Second, it has both Pacific moisture and an extra moisture boost from the remnants of an atmosheric river of moisture that hit California earlier this week.
The third variable with the whole weekend storm scenario is once the storm gets east of the southern Rockies it will pump moisture and warmth from the Gulf of Mexico back into the Front Range.