A Complicated Forecast - Winter Storm Watch

I wanted to wait until this afternoon's forecast discussion was released by the National Weather Service in efforts to pass along a more definite forecast. This, however, did not help much as quite a bit of uncertainty remains with the Friday night/Saturday storm.

Much like the storm last week, a variation in storm track by even 50 miles could mean a major difference in snow totals for Denver. As it stands right now the NWS has issued a *winter storm watch* for most of northeast Colorado, including Denver. This watch calls for the potential of 5 - 12 inches of snow from this storm, with upwards of 18 inches in the foothills west and south of town. Here is the catch: if the storm ends up on track and the heavy snow expected for tomorrow night comes to fruition, the snowfall forecast could be underdone - and if the low ends up tracking just north of town, the snowfall forecast could be overdone. It is really a wait and see.

What we can expect is rain and snow to start sometime tomorrow evening, quickly changing to all snow. Tomorrow night snow could be heavy at times with snowfall rates of 1 - 2 inches per hour. This will be a heavy, wet, spring snow!

Still plenty of time for details to be worked out, so let us see if we can get some agreement between the different models in the next 24 hours.

Whew - sorry about the rather lengthy explanation!

There definitely has been no shortage of things to talk about on here with this active weather track we are on!

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