Snow rolled through Denver at rush hour Wednesday, but isn’t expected to leave too much trouble for morning metro area commuters, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.
“We’re seeing it dry out pretty well on Denver roads,” said Ted Hill in the agency’s traffic center about 9:45 p.m. “We’re really seeing the storm drop out on radar to make room for the next one.”
The National Weather Service predicted winds — which moved fast to clear many roads this evening — will push wind chills to minus-9 by morning.
The storm that at one point was expected to drop up to six inches on the metro region, left only about two in many metro locations, according to the Weather Service.
Boulder, however, did get eight inches and accidents and ice closed the road through Boulder Canyon.
Nederland got six inches, and Lookout Mountain received three inches an hour between 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. closing Interstate 70 at Chief Hosa for a period, according to weather data.
But out on the plains, Denver International Airport got only a half-inch.
Forecasters aren’t sure yet about the severity or path of the next approaching storm, but warn high winds and heavy snow are possible.
The city has a 20 percent chance of snow Thursday, when the high reaches only about 33 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. With winds from the west at 20 mph, the wind-chill could make it feel like minus-10 degrees, forecasters said.
The metro region has a 30 percent chance of snow after midnight Friday morning, but less than an inch is expected in the city.
Snow showers are more likely in the metro region Friday afternoon continuing into Friday night and again on Saturday, with chances at about 70 percent each day.
Forecasters aren’t yet speculating on accumulation, however.
