Most highways across Colorado including Interstate-25 from Wellington north to the Wyoming border have now reopened after freezing rain turned highways into sheets of ice and caused several closures.
The National Weather Service in Boulder has a freezing rain advisory in place until noon north of Fort Collins and until 3 p.m. for the Eastern Plains near Akron and Sterling, meteorologist Bernie Meier said.
“It doesn’t take much freezing rain to make the roads a sheet of ice,” Meier said.
There is a winter storm warning for the mountains, which are expected receive anywhere from one to two feet of snow up to four feet of snow in the San Juans, he said.
An accident involving a semi tractor-trailer closed Colorado 114 between Gunnison and Saguache in the Southwest part of the state and it is still closed, Murray said.
Colorado 149 also remains closed at Slungullion Pass and Spring Creek Pass in Southwest Colorado because of weather, he said.
Chain laws are in affect for trucks on both sides of the Eisenhower Tunnel on Interstate-70 and on Loveland Pass, Murray said.
Southbound I-25 has reopened at Walsenburg after an accident involving a semi tractor-trailer closed the highway this morning for several hours, said Mike Murray, spokesman for the Colorado Department of Transportation.
Westbound U.S. 36 was also closed at Flat Irons Crossing but is now open, Meier said.
U.S. 6, about seven miles East of Grand Junction was closed in both directions because of downed power lines apparently following a traffic accident, Murray said. The road is now open.
Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206 or kmitchell@denverpost.com
