Snow arrives in Denver area Wednesday afternoon making for a slick commute

Wintry upwind descended connected the Denver country Thursday day with snowfall falling successful immoderate areas and temperatures dropping into the teens.

A wintertime upwind advisory is posted by the National Weather Service for the metro country including Denver, Boulder, Aurora, Greeley and Denver International Airport. The upwind advisory is posted until 3 a.m. Thursday.

Up to 4 inches of snow is expected on with winds gusting to 35 mph, the upwind work said. Roads are slick successful the metro area.

On the Eastern Plains, blowing snowfall and reduced visibility forced the closure of eastbound I-76 successful Brush connected Wednesday afternoon, according to the Colorado State Patrol.

I-76 eastbound is closed astatine Brush (Exit 90) owed to blowing snowfall and reduced visibility. Still galore crashes eastbound of Sterling. Strongly promote travelers to modify oregon postpone question connected I-76. Secondary highways are not better.

— CSP Sterling (@CSP_Sterling) January 5, 2022

The aforesaid tempest strategy is brining dense snowfall to parts of the mountains, particularly northbound of the Interstate 70 upland corridor. Up to 24 inches of snowfall is expected implicit the higher mountains earlier snowfall ends connected Thursday, with 8 to 16 inches expected successful the valleys of Grand and Jackson counties. Winds volition gust to 40 mph successful the valleys and to 60 mph astatine higher elevations creating near-blizzard conditions astatine times.

Winds chills successful the metro country are forecast to driblet to minus 11 degrees overnight with a debased somesthesia of 2 degrees, the upwind work said. Skies volition beryllium partially sunny connected Thursday with a precocious somesthesia adjacent 30 degrees. Wind chills connected Thursday volition proceed to beryllium frigid, with values arsenic debased arsenic minus 8 degrees.