An overnight storm dumped 1¾ inch of snow Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in downtown Durango.
“It’s a little more than we were forecasting for you,” said Joe Ramey, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction.
It was a northwesterly storm, which typically hits the northern San Juan Mountains more so than Cortez, Durango and Pagosa Springs, he said.
Another storm was shaping up over the southwest corner of Wyoming that was expected to drop southeast Tuesday afternoon and bring heavy snowfall to northwest Colorado. A cold front from that storm was expected to move into Southwest Colorado before sunset.
“It could bring a shot of snow, but I’m not thinking much accumulation, if at all for you guys,” Ramey said.
Cold temperatures are expected to settle into the region Thursday and Friday, with low temperatures in the single digits and high temperatures struggling to break freezing, he said.
A high-pressure zone will develop Thursday, Friday and Saturday, giving Southwest Colorado a break from the storms.
But another storm is expected to roll into the region Saturday night that could bring light accumulation to the valleys and a few of inches to the mountains. Another storm on Tuesday will likely favor the Front Range.
Late next week, just in time for Snowdown, a Pacific storm holds potential for producing better snow, Ramey said.
“Storms keep coming,” he said. “So, kind of a train of disturbances coming through.”
shane@durangoherald.com
