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KEY MESSAGES

- Snow totals continue to dwindle, but impacts from blowing snow remain possible through the rest of this morning, especially over mountain passes.

- Daytime highs today will be cooler than normal, and apparent temperatures will feel even colder thanks to brisk northerly winds.

- Above seasonal temperatures return and continue into the New Year.

- Chances for mainly mountain snowfall for late week into next weekend.

SHORT TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/

Issued at 230 AM MST Sun Dec 28 2025

Currently..

Radar and MRMS imagery depict light snow showers over the San Juans and the Sangres as of 1 AM, with snow moving towards the central mountains and the Palmer Divide. Our front is backing across the region in pieces, and northerly winds have developed across much of the eastern plains. Models suggest that a stronger push will arrive around 5 AM, and gusts to 35 mph or so are being reported in western Kansas and northern Colorado. Temperatures are still in the 40s across most of the plains, with some upper 30s over El Paso County and down near Trinidad. Even the San Luis Valley is still in the upper 20s this hour.

Today and Tonight..

For the high country...Light to occasionally moderate snow is expected to continue over portions of the high country, with the main focus shifting from the San Juans and the central mountains to the Sangres through the next few hours. Winds remain gusty, especially for the Sangres, where gusts to 50mph will continue to be possible today. Wind driven snow and poor visibility could lead to dangerous travel conditions, especially over La Veta Pass this morning. Conditions are expected to begin to improve over the Sangres, where our Winter Storm Warning has been downgraded to a Winter Weather Advisory that remains in place through 11 AM. All Advisories will remain in effect through 11 AM, with improving conditions expected through the afternoon hours. Additional snow amounts will be very light, generally two inches or less, with main impacts being from wind driven snow and dangerous travel conditions over mountain passes. All snow chances come to an end by this evening, with clearing skies and much cooler temperatures likely for the high country.

On the plains...Our stronger cold push will come through here in the next few hours, bringing gusty north winds and slight chances for snow. The Denver area has seen banded snow showers that we may be able to look forward to, but models also do not show very strong easterly upslope. We keep winds very dry and northerly through the best period of snowfall for us. This will lead to downsloping and lessening snowfall chances for most of our area. All of that said, we will still carry slight chances for spotty snow showers through much of the morning hours, and high res models so still paint a few bands across our far eastern plains. QPF is low, and snow totals are less than inch generally along and west of the I-25 corridor for the most part, but a few flurries may be possible further east, with higher amounts possible on our southern plains down near Delhi and Pinon Canon, where northern winds will not be as detrimental. Blowing snow may also bring impacts, especially early this morning when post frontal winds will be strongest. Northern and eastern El Paso County and Kiowa County will have the highest potential to see blowing snow and dangerous travel conditions early this morning. Snow looks to come to an end from north to south by lunchtime or so on the plains, with clearing skies and blustery winds sticking around for most locations. Daytime highs are trending warmer, and may end up being even warmer than currently forecast if clearing happens earlier in the day. Current thinking is that most areas will see highs in the 30s, with a few 20s over the Pikes Peak region and the far southern plains, where snow will linger the longest. Even the San Luis Valley looks to see highs up into the 30s and low 40s today. Overnight lows will be colder than we've been in the past several weeks though as we clear out in our post-frontal airmass. Most locations look to drop down into the teens and single digits above zero tonight.

LONG TERM /MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/

Issued at 230 AM MST Sun Dec 28 2025

Monday...Very dry air within the decreasing northerly flow aloft will bring mainly sunny skies and dew points in the single digits above and below zero across the region on Monday. Fire danger across the area will be limited, however, as temperatures slowly warm to around seasonal levels into the 30s and 40s areawide, along with generally light wind regimes.

For Tuesday into next weekend, modest west to northwest flow looks to prevail across the region, as upper level ridging builds back into the Rockies into New Years Day (Thursday). This will keep the area dry with temperatures rebounding back to above seasonal levels, into the New Year. Highs on New Years Day (Thursday) may approach record levels at some locales, with current records for January 1st at ALS being 51F in 1981, 64F at COS in 1914 and 1918, and 71F at PUB in 1918.

Longer range guidance does indicate the ridge breaking down by the end of the week, with more westerly flow and a few passing disturbances bringing chances of precipitation to areas along the Continental Divide into the first weekend of the new year, with temperatures expected to remain above seasonal levels through the period.

AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z MONDAY/

Issued at 1042 PM MST Sat Dec 27 2025

Snow chances seem to be diminishing with each batch of new guidance that is released, which made me remove the TEMPO group at KCOS and the PROB30 group at KPUB. However, I did keep VCSH in there just to indicate the best time of precipitation, if it does decide to precipitate. The one certain thing is gusty winds behind the cold front. At this point in time, we have VFR conditions at KALS, KCOS, and KPUB throughout the forecast period.

PUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

Winter Weather Advisory until 11 AM MST this morning for COZ058-060-068-073-075.