Denver has a 40 percent chance of snow by Thursday morning, but a half-inch or less is the most the metro region can expect, according to the National Weather Service office in Boulder.
With temperatures dipping into the lower 20s, the chances tonight are as good as it gets this week. Thursday night has a 20 percent chance of snow, but daytime temperatures Thursday and Friday are expected to be in the 40s.
Saturday has a 10 percent chance of snow, with only slight chances Sunday and Monday, forecasters said.
The metro region hasn’t seen significant snowfall since Dec. 24.
January was the sixth driest on record for Denver. Only 2.6 inches of snow fell scattered over the course of the month, or 7.7 inches below average, according to the Weather Service.
The snowpack measurement for the South Platte River basin, which includes the metro region, is just 79 percent of its 30-year average, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Lakewood.
Statewide snowpack is at 84 percent. While southeast Colorado snowfall is above average, snowpack across northern Colorado is lagging more than 20 percent below average, according to NRCS.
Despite the dry month, Denver’s precipitation from July through January is still about 6.9 inches above normal, according to the federal agency.
Temperatures in the metro region last month were about 2 degrees warming than the average of 29 degrees. The month saw a high temperature of 58 degrees and a low of minus-16, according to the National Weather Service.
