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Winter Weather Update: Temperatures tumble 30 degrees for Tuesday as winter weather returns

After another glorious springlike Monday across the Front Range, much colder and gloomier weather will arrive early Tuesday as our next storm system enters the picture. While we will sadly be missing out on the feet of snow and blizzard conditions hitting Wyoming, there are some snowflakes in the forecast. Let’s take a look at the timing of the snow, the most likely snowfall amounts, and the potential travel impacts as winter weather returns to the area.

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This Week in Colorado Weather: April 3, 2023

Following another elevated fire danger day on Monday, a late-season snowstorm will trek from the Rockies into the Dakotas in the coming days. While the brunt of this massive winter storm will be felt in the Mountains and well to our north in Wyoming, there are enough ingredients coming together to bring light snow to the Front Range during this time as well. Another chance of snow may develop on Wednesday. Unseasonably cold temperatures will transition back above normal by week’s end with a warm and dry outlook shaping up for much of the extended.

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This Week in Colorado Weather: March 27, 2023

After widespread snow and unseasonably cold weather on Monday, things quiet down for the midweek period with a nice warm-up headed to the Front Range. A secondary storm system will reach the area Thursday into Friday with Mountain snowfall ramping up again along with another chance of snow in the Denver area to close out the month of March. Read on for all the details.

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Winter Weather Update: Another chance snow moves in Sunday evening into Monday, but uncertainty abounds

Despite persistent and exceptionally cold weather, March has under-delivered on snow thus far with less than 2″ falling in Boulder since late February. More snow and cold is on the way Sunday night into Monday, but once again it looks to be another meager showing of snow. As of writing, uncertainty remains regarding exactly what will transpire with this event as a band of heavy snow may develop early Monday somewhere across the northern Front Range. Let’s take a look at the timing of everything, the most likely snowfall amounts, and the potential travel impacts as winter weather returns for the last Monday of March.

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This Week in Colorado Weather: March 20, 2023

This week in Colorado weather will feature favorable upslope conditions across the Mountains into at least midweek, but mostly dry conditions and seasonal temperatures for the Plains. The deep moisture will bring hefty snow totals to the High Country over the coming days, with powder measured by the foot in many areas. Little if any precipitation will occur across the Denver Metro area, though Wednesday will bring our best chance with a stronger trough of low pressure moving through. The week ends with drier zonal flow but there are some signs of a possible snow event developing for the weekend.

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Winter Weather Update: Following this 70-degree Wednesday, rain will change to snow late tonight

A potent atmospheric river event is ongoing across the southwestern United States right now including portions of western Colorado. After our warmest day in more than four months on Wednesday, this moist system will enter the picture for the Front Range Wednesday night with rain changing to snow across the Plains and Foothills as a cold front slides through. Though the best upslope will be south and southwest of Denver with this event, most everyone will see snowflakes amounting to a several inches in some places and just a dusting in others. Let’s take a look at the expecting timing of the change-over to snow, snowfall amounts, and the travel impacts in the works as winter weather returns to the Front Range.

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This Week in Colorado Weather: March 13, 2023

This week’s weather will feature a resurgence of winter across the Front Range, but in typical fashion it will be immediately preceded by a few days of spring-like conditions including potentially our first 70-degree day of 2023. The bottom is set to fall out Wednesday night with rain changing to wet snow across the region. Though there is still some uncertainty due to the lead time, accumulating snowfall looks very likely for almost everyone in the Metro area. Read on for our complete outlook of the weather week ahead.

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