An early spring storm dropped as much as 16 inches of snow in the mountains and up to an inch of water in the Denver area has moved south and east of the metro area and is beginning to enter Kansas, forecasters say.
“We got the dirt wet,” NWS meteorologist Kyle Fredin said just before 9 a.m. Friday.
He said some parts of the Denver metro area got between three-fourths to an 1 inch of moisture even though there was no snow accumulation. Northern Colorado received much less moisture. Fort Collins received between one-tenth to two-tenths of an inch of rain.
“It just wasn’t quite cold enough to bring snow to the urban corridor,” Fredin said. Temperatures remained at least 5 degrees above freezing, he said.
Early Friday morning snow was blowing sideways in parts of Arapahoe, Douglas and El Paso counties. Howling winds are gusting up to 48 mph, according to the National Weather Service in Boulder.
By 10 a.m. the storm will be moving out of Denver and by noon it will begin drying out, Fredin said.
The high temperature could reach 51 degrees. The storm will clear out by late afternoon, according to the NWS.
Sunshine is the forecast for Saturday. The high temperature will rise to about 62 degrees.
The Denver metro area could get rain at night. There is a 30 percent chance of rain after midnight.
The chance for rain increases on Sunday. The high will be back down in the 50s, according to the NWS.
There is a chance for rain Monday through Thursday of next week, when high temperatures will hover in the upper 50s to lower 60s, according to the NWS.
