A major, long-duration storm is developing near the Rockies and is set to dump heavy amounts of snow in Denver and the foothills and mountains to its west. The sprawling storm will not only affect Colorado; winter weather alerts for snow stretch from the mountains of Arizona and New Mexico to southern Montana. But the heaviest amounts are forecast in the mountains of Colorado, where some locations could see 4 feet.
Winter storm warnings are now in effect in Denver and Boulder, where double-digit totals are predicted and perhaps the most snow from a single storm since 2021. Rain developing Wednesday is predicted to turn to snow by nightfall and then become heavy.
The National Weather Service office serving the Denver-Boulder area expects a wet snow that could damage trees and power lines. The office also warned of “difficult to nearly impossible travel” in Boulder, Denver’s western suburbs and other Front Range communities through Thursday night.
The most significant impacts are expected in the zone from near Boulder to the west of Colorado Springs. There, the Weather Service anticipates “extreme” Level 5 out of 5 impacts, including dangerous travel, widespread closings of roads, schools and businesses, as well as a threat for power outages.
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A major, long-duration storm is developing near the Rockies and is set to dump heavy amounts of snow in Denver and the foothills and mountains to its west. The sprawling storm will not only affect Colorado; winter weather alerts for snow stretch from the mountains of Arizona and New Mexico to southern Montana. But the heaviest amounts are forecast in the mountains of Colorado, where some locations could see 4 feet.
Winter storm warnings are now in effect in Denver and Boulder, where double-digit totals are predicted and perhaps the most snow from a single storm since 2021. Rain developing Wednesday is predicted to turn to snow by nightfall and then become heavy.
The National Weather Service office serving the Denver-Boulder area expects a wet snow that could damage trees and power lines. The office also warned of “difficult to nearly impossible travel” in Boulder, Denver’s western suburbs and other Front Range communities through Thursday night.
The most significant impacts are expected in the zone from near Boulder to the west of Colorado Springs. There, the Weather Service anticipates “extreme” Level 5 out of 5 impacts, including dangerous travel, widespread closings of roads, schools and businesses, as well as a threat for power outages.
The same storm system is expected to unleash strong winds between eastern New Mexico and western Oklahoma, [generating a dangerous fire threat](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/03/12/wildfire-danger-texas-oklahoma-smokehouse-creek/?itid=lk_inline_manual_9). Farther to the east and northeast, it is forecast to fuel severe thunderstorms and possibly tornadoes, first between[ eastern Kansas and northern Missouri, including Kansas City on Wednesday](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html). That threat will spread over [a larger section of the Midwest](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day2otlk.html) on Thursday, spanning from Dallas to just south of Chicago.
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The headline is a bit hyperbolic. I’m in Denver. It’s looking like a good sized storm, but not as big as the one we got in 2021.
But who knows. The front range isn’t exactly known for precise meteorology.