A winter weather advisory has been issued until noon Friday for the San Juan Mountains – including the towns of Silverton, Rico, Telluride, Ouray and Lake City – with 6 to 12 inches of snow expected.
The storm is expected to favor the mountains and do little in the way of precipitation for lower elevations like Cortez, Durango and Pagosa Springs, said Megan Stackhouse, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Grand Junction.
“You guys could see some light precipitation, but right now, we’re not looking at anything measurable,” she said.
The cold front is dropping in from the Northern Rockies, which means it will bring cooler temperatures Thursday and Friday, with highs in the mid-50s and lows just below freezing in Durango.
A jet stream associated with the storm in the upper atmosphere is expected to produce high winds during the duration of the storm, Stackhouse said.
“Once this system moves out of the region later this week, the winds are going to start to die down again,” she said.
She described the storm as typical springtime weather in the Rockies. The weather is in an unsettled pattern, and small disturbances are expected through the weekend and early next week.
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