Snow starts falling New Year’s Day afternoon and continues overnight, with a quick shot of between 2 and 8 inches for Colorado’s northern and central mountains.
After bitter cold low temperatures on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day mornings, a return to seasonal temperatures starts, and multiple chances for snow for the first week of 2025.
Recap:
Tuesday morning’s slows were rather cold across Colorado’s high country and ski areas. Granby Ranch recorded a low of -5, Copper Mountain -2, Breckenridge -3, Winter Park 0, and Crested Butte -1.
Snowfall totals, however, were in the plus category, with most northern and central ski areas reporting between 4-8 inches.
Forecast:
On New Year’s Day Wednesday, temperatures will rise a little bit more than Tuesday’s, but the story will be a fast-approaching storm that will drop several inches on the northern and central mountains from this afternoon into Thursday morning.
The ECWMF model forecasts snow accumulations in the northern mountains from between 4-8 inches, in the central mountains between 1-4 inches, and the southern mountains between a trace-1 inch.