A snowy Pacific storm surging across Colorado’s high country Saturday night and into Sunday will offer rare powder turns on the final day of skiing at nine ski resorts, while also splashing the Front Range and metro Denver with a snow-rain slush.
The National Weather Service expects the storm could leave several inches in the Colorado mountains by midday Sunday.
, with snowfall forecasts ranging from six to 16 inches.– including north central Colorado and the northern Front Range foothills – forecast high winds and snowfall from four to 10 inches, with the heaviest accumulations north of the Interstate 70 corridor.
Welcome rain is expected across the Eastern Plans on Sunday. Metro Denver saw rain beginning Saturday afternoon with a mixture of rain showers and snow on Sunday and a high around 52 degrees with wind gusts up to 23 mph. The precipitation is expected to wane Sunday night in metro Denver, with Monday partly sunny with a high near 59 degrees.
The high country can expect snow to continue through Sunday night, with the weather service forecasting snowfall to taper off Monday, with chances of snow dwindling to 40 percent.
Sunday’s snowstorm marks a lion’s roar finale to skiing at nine ski areas: Eldora, Copper Mountain, Steamboat, Aspen Highlands, Aspen Mountain, Snowmass, Silverton Mountain, Vail and Beaver Creekm which all close after this weekend.
Winter Park is scheduled to close April 22. Loveland and Arapahoe Basin are hoping to push skiing into May.
Jason Blevins: 303-954-1374 or jblevins@denverpost.com
