NOAA: Winter Weather Advisory Today for the Front Range, CO | Up to 14″ Forecast in 24 hours

NOAA has issued a Winter Weather Advisory today for the Front Range of Colorado that is calling for up to 14″ of snow in 24 hours beginning today at noon.  This advisory includes the currently open ski resorts of Loveland & Arapahoe Basin.

An ongoing Winter Storm Watch that is forecasting up to 20″ of snow continues for nearly all of the rest of the mountains of Colorado today and tomorrow (see map below) as well.

NOAA is forecasting up 14″ of snow for upper elevations of Loveland and Arapahoe Basin ski areas between noon today and noon tomorrow.

NOAA isn’t even mentioning snow levels, so we assume they’re low.

* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS...5 TO 10 INCHES EXPECTED BY THURSDAY
  AFTERNOON WITH A FEW LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS. HIGHEST AMOUNTS
  WILL BE OVER MOUNTAIN PASSES AND LOCATIONS NORTH OF THE
  INTERSTATE 70 CORRIDOR. MOUNTAIN VALLEYS WILL SEE LESSER
  AMOUNTS...GENERALLY FROM 2 TO 5 INCHES. 
- NOAA Denver, CO's Winter Weather Advisory today

WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY for THE FRONT RANGE, CO:

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO
335 AM MST WED NOV 4 2015

...SNOW TO RETURN TO THE HIGH COUNTRY THIS AFTERNOON...

.A STORM SYSTEM CONTINUES TO DEVELOP OVER THE GREAT BASIN THIS
MORNING AND WILL GRADUALLY MOVE ACROSS COLORADO LATER TONIGHT AND
THURSDAY. SNOW WILL SPREAD EASTWARD OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL
MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE HEAVIEST SNOW EXPECTED FROM
LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. SNOW WILL DECREASE BY THURSDAY
AFTERNOON AS THE STORM SYSTEM MOVES EAST OF COLORADO.

SOUTH AND EAST JACKSON/LARIMER/NORTH AND NORTHEAST GRAND/
NORTHWEST BOULDER COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-
SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST GRAND/WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST BOULDER/
GILPIN/CLEAR CREEK/SUMMIT/NORTH AND WEST PARK COUNTIES ABOVE
9000 FEET-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...
EAST SLOPES PARK AND NORTHERN GORE RANGES...GORE PASS...
RABBIT EARS PASS...CAMERON PASS...
LARAMIE AND MEDICINE BOW MOUNTAINS...RABBIT EARS RANGE...
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK...WILLOW CREEK PASS...
BERTHOUD PASS...BRECKENRIDGE...EAST SLOPES MOSQUITO RANGE...
EAST SLOPES SOUTHERN GORE RANGE...EISENHOWER TUNNEL...
INDIAN PEAKS...KENOSHA MOUNTAINS...MOUNT EVANS...
WILLIAMS FORK MOUNTAINS...WINTER PARK
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO NOON MST
THURSDAY...

* TIMING...SNOW WILL DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS OVER THE
  NORTHERN MOUNTAINS...BECOMING HEAVIEST DURING THE LATE
  AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.

* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS...5 TO 10 INCHES EXPECTED BY THURSDAY
  AFTERNOON WITH A FEW LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS. HIGHEST AMOUNTS
  WILL BE OVER MOUNTAIN PASSES AND LOCATIONS NORTH OF THE
  INTERSTATE 70 CORRIDOR. MOUNTAIN VALLEYS WILL SEE LESSER
  AMOUNTS...GENERALLY FROM 2 TO 5 INCHES.

* WIND/VISIBILITY...WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH ALONG
  WITH SNOW WILL RESULT IN REDUCED VISIBILITIES AT TIMES.

* IMPACTS...EXPECT WINTER DRIVING CONDITIONS BY LATER THIS
  AFTERNOON AND CONTINUING THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING AS ROADWAYS
  AND MOUNTAIN PASSES BECOME ICY AND SNOWPACKED.

WINTER STORM WARNING for COLORADO:

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND JUNCTION CO
907 AM MST WED NOV 4 2015

ELKHEAD AND PARK MOUNTAINS-GRAND AND BATTLEMENT MESAS-
GORE AND ELK MOUNTAINS/CENTRAL MOUNTAIN VALLEYS-
WEST ELK AND SAWATCH MOUNTAINS-FLAT TOPS-
NORTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-SOUTHWEST SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-

...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THURSDAY
ABOVE 8000 FEET...

* LOCATIONS INCLUDE THE CITIES OF...COLUMBINE...TOPONAS...
  SKYWAY...VAIL...SNOWMASS...CRESTED BUTTE...TAYLOR PARK...
  MARBLE... BUFORD...TRAPPERS LAKE...OURAY...TELLURIDE...LAKE
  CITY... SILVERTON...RICO...HESPERUS.

* TIMING...SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY...OCCASIONALLY
  HEAVY ON SOUTH FACING ASPECTS. SOME LULLS ARE POSSIBLE FROM TIME
  TO TIME.  SNOW WILL BE TAPERING OFF THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

* SNOW ACCUMULATION...6 TO 12 INCHES OF NEW SNOW IS EXPECTED WITH
  THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS OVER THE MOUNTAIN PASSES. FOR THE SAN JUAN
  MOUNTAINS AND THE GRAND MESA...THE SNOW TOTALS OVER THE MOUNTAIN
  PASSES AND ABOVE TIMBERLINE MAY REACH BETWEEN 15 TO 20 INCHES
  OF SNOW.

* WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH.

* IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF ACCUMULATING SNOW AND WIND WILL
  MAKE TRAVEL DIFFICULT. POOR VISIBILITIES FROM SNOW AND FOG
  WILL EXIST OVER THE MOUNTAIN PASSES.