Denver Weather: Biggest Snowstorm In Likely Three Years Arrives Tonight

[brooklynite]

Source: KCNC-TV

DENVER (CBS4) – A storm with the potential of making travel impossible in some areas will hit Colorado fast and hard late Monday before quickly exiting the state on Tuesday. A WINTER STORM WARNING starts at 8 p.m. Monday and continues through 5 p.m. Tuesday for all of northeast Colorado including the entire Denver metro area.

The storm is expected to bring at least 6 to 16 inches of snow to the Denver metro area and even higher amounts to the north areas north and northwest. The Fort Collins, Loveland, and Longmont areas and the foothills of Boulder and Larimer Counties could see close to 2 feet of snow in some areas.

In addition to the snow, there will be gusty winds Monday night and Tuesday that will cause blowing and drifting snow especially on the Eastern Plains. Near blizzard conditions are possible.

The snow in Denver could be at least the deepest measured in the city since April 16, 2016 when 11.8 inches of heavy snow fell. That was heavy, wet snow that fell with that storm. What falls Monday night and Tuesday will be much lighter and fluffier and therefore will be very susceptible to winds.


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[moreland01]

1. In Breckenridge

Cozy with hubby, puppy, chili, hot cocoa and a bottle of Schnapps. Let it snow!!!

[Alliepoo]

2. My best friend lives in Loveland

She said they tried twice yesterday to go to the grocery store and there were no parking places to be found. Storm shopping and Turkey Day shopping all rolled into one glorious grocery store experience! Lol!

[Colorado Liberal]

3. Longmont resident here

Just hoping I can get home from work (east of Denver) tonight before the snow really gets started.....

[kstewart33]

4. Here in Denver...

If it snows more than a foot, most of Denver will be shut down. I'm cooking for 18 and if we lose power, things will get rather tricky. But keeping a positive attitude about it all. My husband and daughters will have some shoveling to do!

[DavidDvorkin]

5. I retired ten years ago, so I'm fully prepared!

[SergeStorms]

6. I live in the "Lake Effect" snow area of New York.

We call a snow event that dumps a foot of snow in a 24 hr. period.......Tuesday. We're used to it, some others aren't. Three inches of snow in D.C. brings everything to a screeching halt. Good luck to all in Colorado. This too shall pass.

[EarthFirst]

7. Indeed. We're in Rochester...

A ten inch snowfall overnight is a minor inconvenience that’s quickly handled and we move on. Granted; we’re well prepared for it and generally accustomed to travel under such conditions; but yeah; a Tuesday indeed!

[Habibi]

12. Rahchacha here too, and yep, the city does a pretty good job of clearing it up. NT.

[whistler162]

8. I thought you guys up on the plateau called

it flurries.

[SergeStorms]

14. The Tug Hill Plateau.

Fulton, Oswego, Pultneyville...oh yeah, they get an inch an hour for days on end and it's no big deal for them. You have to love snow to want to live there. That long fetch across Lake Ontario really piles it up. Buffalo gets all the press, but they're a bunch of cry babies.

[whistler162]

15. I am just glad the snow blows

west to east most of the time and not north to south so we don't get much compared. Used to work in the Union Springs school district, driving from Syracuse area to there go from some snow to lots f snow from Elbridge to just west of Auburn then to no or very little snow in Union Springs.

[RobinA]

9. DC

is pathetic in snow. And the thought of snow. And I’m from Philadelphia where we aren’t real great, but Washington takes snow incompétence to a whole new level. And the hysteria 🙄

[uncle ray]

13. i grew up in Minnesota it's a little different here in CO.

we have hills that will humble the best driver on all season tires when ice covered, regardless how slow and careful you drive. we'll have daytime temps in the 50's or higher before a snow event, guaranteeing that roads will be ice covered under a layer of snow. one of the most important factors: we have Californians and Texans. nothing wrong with the people, other than lack of experience driving in inclement weather. it's best to stay home while they practice. we also don't have massive fleets of snow plows, so we give it a day for the snow to melt on it's own when the temp gets back into the 50's tomorrow.

[locks]

10. In Sept. I bought a ticket for

Tuesday, November 26, to fly to Atlanta to be with all my grandkids for Thanksgiving because it would be too early for a big snowstorm.

[generalbetrayus]

11. "What falls Monday night and Tuesday will be much lighter and fluffier

and therefore will be very susceptible to winds." Speaking from 7 miles east of Boulder, CO, no, the snow was wet and heavy from the beginning, so unless its character changes overnight, tomorrow is going to be a long, hard shovel.