Overview
- The National Weather Service warnings that start Monday and last through Wednesday target a late-season mountain storm in parts of Colorado and Wyoming.
- Forecasters expect up to about 24 inches of heavy, wet snow above 8,000 feet, with whiteouts over mountain passes and hazardous driving.
- Officials warn that heavy snow on tree limbs and power lines could trigger outages and that travel may become very difficult to impossible at times.
- Affected zones include Rocky Mountain National Park, the Medicine Bow Range, the northern Front Range foothills, and Wyoming communities such as Elk Mountain, Arlington, Albany, and Centennial.
- The same Canadian cold front is forecast to spark strong to severe storms Tuesday and Wednesday from the Southern Plains into the Lower Mississippi and Tennessee valleys, with risks of large hail, damaging winds, and a few tornadoes.