DENVER - Wednesday morning's snow clogged the commute. and Thursday will be cold in the morning before the sun slowly warms things for the afternoon, according to the Colorado weather forecast.
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Wednesday evening's commute was much more manageable than the morning ride, as road crews had most of the day to clear the main roads across the metro area.
9NEWS Meteorologist Marty Coniglio says that most communities in the Denver metro area reported snowfall in the 2 to 5 inch range.
Snowfall reports as of 5 p.m. Wednesday:
Genesee 8.1"
Lookout Mtn 8.0"
Rabbit Ears Pass 8.0"
Nederland 6.5"
Parker 5.3"
Aurora 5.2"
Fraser 5.0"
Tiny Town 5.0"
Westminster 4.3"
Boulder 4.4"
Wheat Ridge 4.2"
9NEWS 3.9"
Thursday will be sunny but chilly, with seasonal highs in the 40s returning Friday. The weekend outlook is for warm dry weather with lots of sunshine and highs in the 50s.
Once again, the Front Range got blanketed with snow on Wednesday and it was sparse in the mountains. However, Winter Park did boast 8 inches of new snow with 6 inches new at Eldora.
The Front Range has now received more snow than it got all last winter. In the mountains, the snow is 22 percent below normal.
The meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Boulder have tracked the patterns this winter. They say, while it is another La Nina year, similar to last season, however it is much weaker this year and that is making the weather in Colorado more variable.
"We don't what shifts are headed our way but given the four or five months of winter that we could still see, especially in the mountain areas, we're going to see a lot of variability. We're going to see more snow. Is it going to pick up and be an above normal year? Maybe not. I don't think we'll see certainly the extremes we saw last year, but there is a lot of room for more snow as the winter goes on," Nezette Rydal with the National Weather Service said.
March is typically the snowiest month in Colorado and April is the second snowiest.
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