Say so long to October, sunshine and shirt-sleeve temperatures on Monday, because snow and cold is coming back.
Tuesday night and Wednesday, for the second week in a row, is expected to have a wintry punch.
And the metro region could get hit again on Friday, the National Weather Service in Denver said this afternoon.
The temperature Sunday reached 63 degrees at Denver International Airport. Tomorrow should see highs in the mid- to upper-60s on the Front Range.
Temperatures fall on Tuesday, slipping into the 20s that night, forecasters said.
Afternoon rain should turn to snow after dark, with a 60 percent chance of snow until about noon Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service in Denver.
But this storm isn’t expected to be the 6-to-10-inch limb-breaker that pummeled Denver this past Tuesday and Wednesday.
“At this time the storm looks like it will produce light to moderate snowfall,” the National Weather Service stated in its outlook this afternoon.
“Localized heavy snow,” however may occur.
The system is expected to bring several more inches of snow to the Colorado ski resort, 15 of which have scheduled openings in November.
The entire Front Range is on snow watch, but amounts could be as little as one-tenth of an inch in Pueblo, forecasters said today.
Another atmospheric mix of moisture and cold passes over Colorado on Friday, definitely bringing a cool weekend and possibly a white one, too, forecasters said.
Saturday could see temperatures as cold as 16 degrees in Denver, according to the weeklong weather outlook.
High temperatures might not climb out of the 30s all weekend, according to the forecast.
Denver collected 8.5 inches of snow in October, more than double the average, according to weather records.
November is the city’s second-snowiest month, behind March, receiving an average of 8.7 inches over the past 30 years, according to official weather records.
The forecast for next month indicates the past week might be a trend.
“This cold and moist progressive pattern is expected to continue through the first half of November 2011,” the National Weather Service stated in its outlook for Denver. “A pattern of dryer and more mild weather conditions are expected for the final half.”
Joey Bunch: 303-954-1174 or jbunch@denverpost.com
