Latest on the forecast for the weekend and some cold and light snow next week.

01/31/26 10:20am: Morning, can you believe its the last day of January! Anyway, just a bit of weather to talk about.

First some low clouds and fog are clearing out over parts of the front-range and eastern plains behind last night's cold front. Its warming up nicely in Den/Bou as the westerly wind scours out the colder air (already 49 at my house, after a low of 21) There were a few snow flurries in spots last night (I think southwest Boulder reported 0.1" of snow).

In the mountains just a little bit more snow overnight with some snow showers ongoing near the Cont. Divide. Areas like Loveland, Steamboat and Winter Park reported 1" of new snow over the last 24hrs. A few snow showers will linger in the mountains through this evening.

Anyway, some drier and seasonably warmer weather on tap from today/tomorrow through mid-day Tue, then a little storm system and cold-front for the front-range (with some snow for the mountains and snow flurries for Den/Bou).

For the north-central mountains next round of light snow / snow-showers expected from 11am Tue to 11am Wed: 1-4" of new snow, favoring the Front Range mountains (near Cont. Divide), Loveland Pass, Berthoud Pass, WP, IPW, RMNP, Cameron Pass etc

For Den/Bou and the northern front-range a stronger cold-front will move in from the north on Tue afternoon / evening. Then a chance for some snow-showers / light snow mostly from 8pm Tue to 5am Wed. Trace-2" in a few spots, favoring the Palmer Divide and foothills west/southwest of Denver (likely not that much for Den/Bou proper) but will be chilly on Tue evening into Wed (20s and 30s).

Then a ridge of high pressure will dominate the weather across the state from about Wed, Feb 4th through Mon, Feb 9th.

Then potentially a more active pattern with a storm for the mountains starting around Feb 10th/11th, or 12th/13th depending on what model you look at, but snow and cold much more likely in the time-frame from Feb 10th-Feb15th (details have to be worked out).

First image is current satellite / surface overlay showing the fog and colder air clearing out now. Second image shows the initial short-wave moving into CO on Tue afternoon via 500mb vorticity / wind from latest ECMWF. Image 3 and 4 compare forecast total snowfall from now through 5am Wed from latest ECMWF and GFS models, take amounts with grain of salt.