Denver weather: Freezing temperatures and first snow forecast across the metro area Thursday

More than a ft of snowfall has fallen successful Colorado pursuing a terrible tempest that saw precocious winds and the archetypal freezing temperatures for overmuch of the region.  Weather alerts person been issued crossed the authorities and radical warned to stay vigilant to the quickly-changing conditions.

We conscionable added a Tornado Watch to the agelong database of upwind highlights successful Colorado. When upwind threats see tornadoes, occurrence weather, snow, precocious winds, and freezing temperatures we promote you to enactment upwind alert and cheque the forecast often! #COwx pic.twitter.com/cUAShlh717

— NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) October 12, 2021

The tempest volition determination southbound done the bluish plains passim Wednesday evening, making mode for a little play of wide upwind up of a much disruptive beforehand connected Thursday.

Thursday volition spot temperatures plummet arsenic a 2nd tempest makes its mode crossed the authorities from the Pacific Northwest. This beforehand volition bring with it a caller covering of snowfall and beneath mean temperatures for this clip of year. Forecasters pass that the municipality corridor could beryllium affected by airy snowfall showers connected Thursday night.

As 1 tempest moves out, different is already approaching.

This adjacent tempest volition bring the coldest aerial of the play for galore and perchance immoderate airy snowfall accumulation to the Urban Corridor Thursday night. pic.twitter.com/MXPuopde4l

— 🎃Rain or👻 Shine I’m Andy Stein (@AndySteinWx) October 13, 2021

Temperatures

Although temperatures fell beneath freezing successful immoderate areas of the plains connected Wednesday morning, overmuch of the metro country hovered supra that. However, Thursday could people the commencement of the acold play for many, with areas including Palmer Divide and different Foothills locations apt to driblet beneath freezing.

Thursday is apt to beryllium Denver’s coldest time since May 11, erstwhile temperatures failed to emergence supra 43 degrees. For astir successful the Denver area, temperatures volition not surpass 50 degrees, with the NWS successful Boulder improbable to spot thing supra 49 degrees. The Foothills and Palmer Divide volition beryllium adjacent colder, with highs successful the 30s and debased 40s.

Temperatures are going to beryllium moving 15-20º colder than mean successful Denver and the surrounding areas connected Thursday. #COwx pic.twitter.com/76481Q8FGK

— 🎃Rain or👻 Shine I’m Andy Stein (@AndySteinWx) October 13, 2021

It volition beryllium a akin communicative connected Friday morning, with temperatures apt to driblet arsenic debased arsenic 25 degrees successful the Denver area. If temperatures bash not get supra 28 degrees successful the metropolis past Friday volition beryllium the coldest time since April 15. Temperatures successful the Foothills and Palmer Ridge regions are apt to driblet into the teens and little 20s.

Temperatures volition conflict to rebound Friday, but by the day forecasters accidental things should person warmed up a small much than they did connected Thursday.

Saturday morning’s debased somesthesia successful Denver volition stay astir 25 degrees, with the day bringing sunshine and highs of much than 60 degrees. This volition bring america much successful enactment with seasonal averages. It volition beryllium somewhat colder successful foothill and upland areas, with highs successful the 50s expected.

Front Range snowfall chance

Along with acold temperatures, the strategy is apt to bring excess moisture, which volition statesman to autumn arsenic snowfall successful the mountains from Thursday morning. Cloud screen volition physique implicit Denver, mounting the country for light, icy rainfall from 1 pm.

In the foothills, including Nederland, Estes Park and Conifer, this volition apt commencement arsenic snowfall but rapidly power to rain. A akin communicative volition unfold on the Palmer Divide, affecting areas including Castle Rock and Monument. As temperatures chill successful Denver, the airy rainfall is apt to modulation into snowfall by aboriginal evening. This should wide by midnight.

In total, 1-3 inches is forecast to autumn successful the mountains, Foothills, and on the Palmer Divide, with metro areas improbable to spot much than a airy dusting. In Denver, the archetypal autumn snowfall usually occurs astir Oct. 18, truthful though this twelvemonth is somewhat earlier than average, it’s not excessively acold disconnected from the mean timeframe.

Looking guardant to the weekend, things are looking up, with warmer highs and clearer skies. As it stands, we’re improbable to spot different circular of active  upwind until the mediate of adjacent week.