Colorado weather: Freezing temps continue, another wave of snow incoming

Another wave of snow is headed for Colorado as the streak of below-freezing temperatures continues across the state, according to the National Weather Service.

Downtown Denver and the Denver International Airport are forecast to see between 2 and 5 inches of snow Thursday night and Friday morning, NWS forecasters said. Other snow forecasts include:

• Up to 5 inches in Aurora, Brighton, Castle Rock, Centennial, Littleton, Northglenn and Parker
• Up to 6 inches in Broomfield, Highlands Ranch and Lakewood, and along U.S. 40’s Rabbit Ears Pass
• Up to 7 inches in Arvada and Golden and at Floyd Hill
• Up to 8 inches at the Eisenhower and Johnson Tunnels, Loveland Pass, Vail Pass, Copper Mountain and Keystone Ski Area Summit
• Up to 10 inches in northern Colorado’s Park Range Mountains, including Mount Zirkel, and Jefferson County’s Coal Creek Canyon
• Up to 12 inches along Berthoud Pass and Rollins Pass, mountain passes in the Rocky Mountains west of Denver

Most of the southern Front Range, foothills and western suburbs of Denver will see between 3 and 7 inches of snow, according to a NWS Winter Weather Alert.

Snow will start as early as 3 p.m. Thursday and continue through 8 a.m. Friday, forecasters said in the alert. The winter weather could make both the Thursday evening and Friday morning commutes “hazardous.”

Denver will see warmer weather Thursday than Wednesday, when the morning cold hit record lows, but temperatures aren’t expected to rise above freezing, forecasters said.

The streak of below-freezing weather started at 5 p.m. Sunday and is forecast to break at about 11 a.m. Friday, according to NWS forecasters. That’s nearly 115 hours of frigid temperatures.

Temperatures across parts of the Eastern Plains, which remained dangerously low Thursday morning and aren’t expected to rise above 15 degrees during the day, will remain below-freezing until about 3 p.m. Thursday, forecasters said.

The worst weather will hit the northeastern plains, especially along the Colorado border. Though forecasters said no snow is expected, windchill temperatures will feel as cold as minus 6 degrees during the day and minus 10 overnight.

Temperature highs will return to the mid-50s Saturday in Denver and climb into the 60s by Monday, with warmer and sunny weather expected through at least Wednesday.

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