Monday will be another mild fall day along the front range, but don’t expect that weather to last.
“It will be nice and mild, highs in the lower 60s again, mostly sunny skies, and light winds. It is the calm before the storm,” said David Barjenbruch, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder.
A fast-moving storm, that could dump between 2 inches and 6 inches of snow along the Interstate 25 corridor, and 5 inches to 12 inches in the mountains, will move into the region Tuesday evening.
The storm will cross into Colorado from New Mexico and sweep eastward across the state before pounding Kansas early Wednesday, Barjenbruch said.
The storm will begin with rain and snow showers, before wide-spread snow begins to fall late in the evening.
The storm, which is expected to end in the early morning hours of Wednesday, could bring wind gusts of up to 50 miles-per-hour and blizzard conditions to the plains east of Denver.
“It could be short but intense while it is here,” Barjenbruch said.
The snow will end, but it will remain breezy and cool through Wednesday, and Thursday, with temperatures around 40 degrees.
By Friday, temperature will climb back into the 50s.
Temperatures around 60 degrees are expected to return for the weekend, Barjenbruch said.
Tom McGhee: 303-954-1671, tmcghee@denverpost.com or @dpmcghee
