02/22/26 11am: Hi, happy Sunday. Lets take a look at what we can expect weather-wise this week and towards the weekend. We do have another storm to talk about, that will bring snow to the mountains from Tue night through early Thu morning, with warmer / drier weather before and after that. Here are the main points:

First back to warm and dry weather from today through most of Tue as a ridge of high pressure moves over the state, before the next storm moves into the mountains Tue night. For Den/Bou and the front-range, turning very warm again, especially Mon and Tue (high temps near 70 on Tue for the metro area).

Some wind over the Front Range mountains along/east of the Cont. Divide Mon afternoon into Tue, gusts of 20-50mph, mostly above 8k ft. Little wind for Den/Bou before Tue pm.

Then moisture moves back into the mountains Tue afternoon.

Initially some moist westerly flow (moving in from the north) imparting the north-central mountains from 5pm Tue through 2pm Wed.

Then the main short-wave, cold-front and a shot of northwest flow from 2pm Wed through 2am Thu.

So on/off snow for the north-central mountains, mostly from Aspen north and across I-70 mountain corridor and northern mountains from 5pm Tue to 2am Thu (02/17-02/19).

Generally 3-8” for the local ski area/ I-70 mountain corridor, including Eagle, Summit, Grand, ClearCreek, western Boulder/Larimer counties. Also similar near Aspen.

With 6-12” for northern mountains: Flat Tops, Park Range (near/north of Steamboat ski), Medicine Bow Range (RMNP, Cameron Pass).

For southern CO including areas near CB (southern Elks), Grand Mesa, San Juans and Collegiate Range: generally 1-4” of new snow by Thu am.

For Den/Bou and the front-range just a gusty cold-front with a few rain/snow showers from 4pm-11pm on Wed, turning very windy behind the cold-front, from 2pm Wed to 2am Thu: northwest wind-gusts of 30-60 mph, strongest in the foothills.

Maybe a Trace-1” of snow for parts of the foothills and Palmer Divide on Wed evening, won’t be much (too much downslope flow).

In general it will be turning very windy across the north-central mountains from 11am Wed through 11am Thu: west to northwest wind-gusts of 40-70 mph, strongest from Summit Co east and especially over the Front Range mountains near/east of the Cont. Divide (gusts >80 on Wed afternoon / evening).

On Thu most of the wind will be over the front-range mountains, less further west (and less / little on the front-range).

The storm system clears out of the state by Thu am.

Then back to warm and dry weather across the state from Thu afternoon through the following Sun (02/26 - 03/01).

That is all for now. I'll have a snowfall map for the Tue-Thu storm system tomorrow night. We will be heading back to Westminster later today.

First image shows forecast precip-type/rage at 5pm Wed from latest ECMWF (as the main cold-front and short-wave moves in). Images 2-4 compare forecast total snowfall from now through 5am Thu from NWS Blend of Models, ECMWF and GFS, take modeled snow amounts with grain of salt but you can see the areas favored for heavier snow.