A surge of Arctic air has the city of Denver under a cold weather warning, meaning shelters have ramped up their services and police are on the streets looking to help the at-risk homeless.
Wind chill overnight was expected to reach deadly lows, well below 0 degrees with winds up to 25 mph.
Some parts of the U.S. 285 corridor in Jefferson County received up to 8 inches of snow from the storm, parts of El Paso County received more than 4 inches, and Castle Rock and Sedalia in Douglas County saw 2 inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service.
Tonight’s low temperature in Denver will be around 1 degree, but the wind chill is expected to be as low at minus 12 degrees, the weather service said.
Early Thursday morning, there should be partly sunny skies with high temperatures near 34 degrees and lows below zero throughout the state, and mountain valleys will experience windchill lows in the minus 20 range, and perhaps even the minus 30s.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com
