“It has been weakening the last couple of days,” said Megan Stackhouse, a meteorologist with the Weather Service in Grand Junction. “Right now, we’re not seeing anything super impressive in terms of cold or snow.”
The first disturbance is expected to hit Colorado’s southern border early Saturday and move out by Saturday night, she said.
In Montezuma County, there’s a 50 percent chance of snow Friday night through Sunday, with accumulations of an inch on Friday night and about a half-inch on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. High temperatures through Sunday will be around 40 degrees, and lows around 25.
Durango could see about a half-inch of snow and the San Juan Mountains could get 2 to 5 inches, possibly a bit more above 10,000 feet. Daytime temperatures are expected to be in the middle to upper 30s.
The next best chance for snow will come on Monday and Tuesday, when a Pacific Northwest storm could bring colder and snowier weather. But Stackhouse said it’s a bit too early to say where that storm will track and how much snow it might drop.
“It’s kind of a messy pattern,” she said of the two systems.
The Journal contributed to this article.