Colorado – The Front Range greets this Saturday morning with a quiet chill, the kind that clings to windows and crunches underfoot. Denver skies glow pale blue above a frosty skyline, but colder, stormier weather is fast approaching from the northwest.
The National Weather Service reports that a Winter-like pattern will settle in this weekend, with a chance of snow beginning Friday evening and lasting through early Sunday. Light accumulations — generally less than two inches — are expected around the Denver metro, but temperatures dipping into the teens and 20s will make roads slick, especially on bridges and shaded stretches of I-25 and I-70. Travelers heading west into the foothills or north toward Fort Collins should plan extra time, as light snow could linger into Saturday morning.
Saturday afternoon remains cold and mostly dry, with highs struggling to reach the low 30s under partly cloudy skies. Sunday brings another weak disturbance and a slight chance of flurries, but the bigger story will be the chill — single-digit wind chills are possible by early Monday.
Beyond the weekend, NOAA’s 6–10 Day Outlook points to a much larger December cold surge across the central and eastern U.S., keeping Colorado below normal through December 6.
Five-Day Outlook for Denver, CO
- Friday: Partly sunny, high 54°F, snow chance late, low 23°F.
- Saturday: Mostly sunny, high 33°F, low 15°F.
- Sunday: Chance of snow, high 31°F, low 14°F.
- Monday: Mostly sunny, high 38°F, low 20°F.
- Tuesday: Partly cloudy, high 41°F.
