Slick roads contributed to numerous collisions and slide-offs in the Denver metro area where snowfall varied widely from 2 inches to 2 feet.
Friday’s storm dropped anywhere from 1.7 inches at Denver International Airport to 26 inches in the foothills of Jefferson County, said Kyle Fredin, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Boulder.
Temperatures dropped to the teens in the Denver metro area and to as low as 23 degrees below zero in HohnholzRanch in Larimer County near the Wyoming border, Fredin said.
Meanwhile, icy roads contributed to numerous accidents but few injuries across the metro area, said RyanSullivan, spokesman for the Colorado State Patrol.
He said a patrol car was damaged when a trooper stopped to help someone who had slid off C-470 in Jefferson County and someone collided with the vehicle, Sullivan said.
No one was hurt in the accident because the trooper was not in the patrol car at the time.
Temperatures will rise quickly today into the 30s with mostly sunny skies and a high expected between 32 and 38 degrees, Fredin said.
Tomorrow, temperatures will rise to the 50s and by Monday temperatures could be in the mid-60s , Fredin said
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The next storm is expected to move into the state by Tuesday, but it is not expected to bring as much moisture as the last storm.
Downtown Denver accumulated between 5 to 8 inches of snow the past 24 hours while Morrison had 12 inches of snow and Leadville had 9 inches, Fredin said.