A weak storm will impact central CO today (some snow for the mountains)

02/26/25 8am: Morning. Sunny across much of the state this morning but models show a weak storm system moving through central CO later this afternoon / evening and this will bring some snow / snow-showers to parts of the mountains with a focus in areas from the Collegiate Range to the Sangres (and a bit for northern CO).

For the north-central and south-central mountains some snow / snow showers primarily from 1pm-11pm today. For our local ski areas along the I-70 corridor just a Trace-2" in a few spots. For parts of Collegiate Range (near Monarch) to the northern Sangres (above Crestone): maybe 1-4"in a few spots (a little bit in the San Juans as well).

Decreasing wind today. Windy over southern CO for the first part of the day. Then as the trough sags south, less wind across much of the state. Looks like pretty calm wind conditions heading into tomorrow as well. Light wind for the northern mountains tomorrow (and little wind on the front-range tomorrow).

Back to warm and dry weather across most of the state from Thu through Sun (except for a very weak wave over northern NM / southern CO late Sat night into Sun am), otherwise dry and sunny through the weekend.

Tracking the next more substantial storm system and maybe a good snow event for the front-range (Den/Bou) for next Tue/Wed (March 4th/5th)....latest ECMWF was showing a good upslope event (and some snow for the mountains), uncertainty is high.

First image shows forecast total snowfall over the next 24hrs (5am this morning through 5am Thu) from latest HRRR for today's wave. Second image shows today's short-wave at 5pm today via 500mb vorticity/wind from GFS (its moisture starved so limited impacts). Image 3 shows today's weak storm via precip-type/mslp at 5pm today and image 4 shows next weeks potential storm, valid next Tue at 11am morning (showing precip-type and mslp) from ECMWF.