Front Range residents were greeted with from 2 to 8 inches of rapidly melting snow this morning, as the High County saw as much as 20 inches, the National Weather Service said this afternoon.
Boulder and the foothills west of Denver saw from 6 to 8 inches, while most of the southern metro region received 2 to 3 inches, according to measurements.
The storm dropped from 12 to 20 inches of new snow in less than 12 hours on the state’s central and northern mountains Tuesday night and early Wednesday.
The late-season storm helped to boost the state snowpack from 91 percent of the state’s 30-year average earlier this week to 94 percent on Wednesday, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service
The storm also has prompted an avalanche warning for the Park Range, Elk Head Mountains, Flat Top Mountains, and Rabbit Ears Range in northwest Colorado until 8 a.m. Thursday.
Slopes steeper than 30 percent are of particular concern, forecasters said.
Denver has a 20 percent chance of snow showers tonight with a low temperature of 29 degrees, according to the forecast.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny in the city with a high temperature of about 62 degrees, with highs of 66 on Friday, 69 on Saturday and possibly 75 degrees on Sunday, according to the forecast.
