Well, I spent some time in the
mountains driving over there,
Lauren, back from Denver.
It was beautiful, it was sunny.
But as soon as I cruised into Denver,
man, it got chilly and
those temperatures dropped.
This is pretty
brutal. You know, that's the hard
part about forecasting in Colorado,
all of the microclimates,
you could have several different
things happening in different
areas at the same time.
So right now, let's go ahead and take a
look at what some of us saw this afternoon.
And by some of us,
I mean northern portions of the Front
Range and eastern plains where our
temperatures maxed out in the single digits,
we saw a high of just.
7 degrees today at DIA,
but to the South and West, different stories.
We were in the 20s,
we saw 20s and 30s in the high country,
warmer there than here,
and we even saw a high of 45
degrees out West in Grand Junction.
As you take a look at our current conditions,
we're at one below very cold,
dangerously cold in fact,
where it feels like 15 degrees below 0
with those winds coming in from the north,
northeast at around 8 mph.
So as you take a look at temperatures,
again across the northern portions of
the Front Range and eastern plains,
we're hovering around 0,
some areas just below some.
Areas just above.
Then we see those teens to the South,
20s and 30s to the West,
Low 40s right now out West.
But what we really want to pay
attention to is going to be the wind
chill that's the temperature and mix
with the wind what the temperature
feels like on your skin where it
feels like 15 below in Denver,
but some areas it feels like
as much as 20 below in Lyman,
13 below in Fort Collins.
So you do want to continue to stay
bundled up if you do have those
Sunday afternoon to evening plans
even into early Monday morning as
you're waking up heading out to
school or work tomorrow because most
of the eastern half of the state.
Will be under wind chill advisories.
This does include Denver and
most of the I-25 corridor,
then everything further east or overnight.
It could feel as low as
20 to 25 degrees below 0.
Again, that's the wind chill,
but that still could be very harmful.
That means that you're susceptible
to frostbite in as little as
30 minutes on exposed skin,
so you definitely want to make sure
you stay bundled up from head to toe.
As you take a look at our HD Doppler radar,
though,
take a look at this system off to the West.
You can see it just churning across
portions of Northern California.
And then coming in from the West,
we do still have more snow and
cold weather that's going to
continue to take over.
But you can see our snow is kind of spotty.
We have an area to the West
and the high country here,
just West of Fort Collins.
We have some snow along the I-70
corridor making your way to Grand
Junction and then some snow and
portions of the Eastern Plains going
through Burlington and then just
South of Colorado Springs
making your way toward Pueblo.
The majority of the snow, though,
going to continue to stay in the
northwestern corner of Colorado,
northern portions of the
high country and western.
Slope gonna continue to be the hardest
hit as we go into the next day or so.
Now as we go into Monday,
we do still have a little
more snow in the forecast,
but it's going to be like
what we saw yesterday.
It's going to be late day light snow
may be heavy at times in certain spots,
but All in all we're only expecting
just another dusting across Denver.
The rest of the Front Range,
most of the snow likely not even going
to make it into the eastern plains.
So yesterday Denver and surrounding
areas saw just the dusting.
We stayed under an inch at DIA,
some areas to the north got a little bit.
Or maybe 2 to isolated reports
of three inches,
but those higher totals
again staying to the West,
specifically northern portions
of the high country and Western
slope and it continues to stay W
as we go through late Monday night.
But this is where we have all
of these winter weather alerts.
So we have a winter storm warning.
This red area,
this is going to be your northern
high country where we could still
see an additional 6 to 16 inches
of snowfall and then other areas
under winter weather advisory.
This is going to be northern portions
of the Front Range foothills and in central,
High Country, Central Western.
Northern portions of the western slope.
So as you take a look at snow
that's fallen so far,
we saw 27 inches reported in Mount Zirkel.
We're getting a lot of snow
in the northern high country.
Rabbit Ears Pass saw 19 1/2 inches,
10 and 1/2 an eyelift.
Arapahoe Peak saw 12 and then we saw
12 inches in Cameron Pass and Spicer,
Glen Devi and Longs Peaks.
All 10.
1/2 of the 9 inch totals
reported in Berthoud Pass,
Copper Mountain, Loveland Pass,
Green Mountain Reservoir.
So in addition to all of that.
With that new snow,
we do still have avalanche
warnings in effect through Monday.
This is specifically going to be park
range at Elk Head Mountains where
we're at a high level of danger.
Level 4 out of five to be exact.
So you want to stay out of those
Backcountry areas.
In the meantime,
tonight this brutally cold weather
is pushing in.
Take a look at these overnight lows,
single digits and sub zero
temperature readings tomorrow.
Our highs not too much better
than what we saw today.
A tad bit better, but still extremely cold.
A high of just 12 degrees expected in Denver.
Most of the Denver Metro area will be
in the single digits to teens you can see.
Those 20s warmer as you make your way higher.
And then we're in the single
digits and teens and
the northern portions of the Front
Range and then off in Winter Park.
We can see a high of 20 degrees,
21 tomorrow in Grand Lake.
So the good news is we do
have a rebound in store.
So we have one more
dangerously cold day tomorrow.
But then Tuesday through the rest of
the week, we see lots of sunshine.
Those temperatures in the
30s Tuesday and Wednesday,
we're back in the 40s by next weekend.