Colorado is set to see a freezing weekend as snow and a bitterly cold arctic blast of air moves into the state on Friday, according to the National Weather Service.
Wednesday and Thursday will be the last semi-warm days before temperatures begin to drop, NWS forecasters said.
Snow arrives Friday
Light snowfall will begin in Colorado’s mountains at about 11 a.m. Friday, move into the Front Range and Denver area in the afternoon and reach the Eastern Plains in the evening, according to NWS forecasters.
How much will stick is still up in the air, but several inches of dry, fluffy snow is expected, especially near the foothills, NWS forecasters said in a Hazardous Weather Outlook.
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Other weather services, like AccuWeather, are calling for 4 to 8 inches of snow in Denver and its surrounding suburbs from Friday into Saturday.
Colorado’s mountains, including peaks as high as Mount Elbert and mountain towns like Estes Park, are expected to get 3 to 6 inches of snow this weekend, according to AccuWeather. The Eastern Plains are forecast to get 2 to 4 inches.
Overnight Friday, temperatures across the state will dip into single digits, NWS forecasters said.
Chilling Saturday temps signal first subzero weather in Denver for the season
Once temperatures start to drop Friday, they won’t come back up until Tuesday.
Saturday will mark Denver’s first chance for subzero temperatures of the season, according to NWS forecasters. Though the snow will wrap up at about 11 a.m., temperature highs won’t rise above the teens in the metro area and could fall to around minus 2 degrees overnight.
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The Eastern Plains will see similar overnight temperature lows of minus 2, but “blustery” wind conditions could make it feel even colder, NWS forecasters said.
In the mountains, snow will continue to fall throughout the day and overnight Saturday, forecasters said. Temperatures will drop to minus 6 overnight before any windchill.
Northern Colorado, including Walden and Kremmling, will see temperatures as low as 13 degrees below zero overnight Saturday, according to NWS forecasters.
Snow, negative temps return Sunday
Snow will return to the Front Range and Eastern Plains on Sunday, but little to no new accumulation is expected, NWS forecasters said.
Most of the state will see temperature highs between 10 and 12 degrees on Sunday before dropping back into or near the negatives, forecasters said.
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Denver will see a high of 11 degrees and overnight temperatures as low as minus 5 degrees, according to NWS forecasters. The Eastern Plains could be as cold as minus 10 degrees Sunday night and the mountains will see low temperatures between minus 1 and minus 8.
The cold could feel even worse with wind chill, forecasters said.
The western slope, including Delta and Cedaredge, will barely escape the weekend without temperatures going below zero. The area is forecast to scrape by with overnight lows near 1 degree.
Monday to be the coldest day of the weekend’s winter weather
The coldest day of the arctic blast will be Monday, where “highs may struggle to get much above zero,” NWS forecasters said.
“Low temperatures could reach minus 10 to minus 20 across the I-25 corridor and Eastern Plains with the lowest temperatures occurring Monday night,” forecasters said in a Hazardous Weather Outlook. “With breezy conditions, wind chill values may reach minus 30.”
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Northern Colorado will be the coldest part of the state Monday. In Walden, temperatures will hover around 3 degrees during the day and drop to 25 degrees below zero overnight, forecasters said.
It won’t be quite as cold in the Denver area, but forecasters said the city will see temperature highs near 7 degrees and overnight lows of minus 12. Temperatures in the Eastern Plains and mountains could drop even lower, with overnight temperatures of 15 to 20 degrees below zero.
Temps begin to warm up Tuesday
Temperature highs will escape the teen and single-digit cage on Tuesday, warming up to 33 degrees in Denver and the mid-20s across the mountains and Eastern Plains.
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Police in Northern Colorado are investigating after a crash involving multiple vehicles claimed the life of a pedestrian.
The Greeley Police Department received reports of a crash at the 5500 block of Highway 34 around 5:50 p.m. on Monday. When officers arrived, they discovered that two vehicles were involved in a crash with a 19-year-old woman who attempted to walk across the highway.
Police said there was no crosswalk in the area, and she was struck by the driver’s side of a Chevrolet Blazer. The impact knocked the woman into the inside lane, where she was struck by a Chevrolet Traverse. A witness told officers they saw the woman crossing the roadway ‘as traffic arrived at her location.’
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First responders attempted life-saving measures on the woman at the scene before she was taken to North Colorado Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. GPD said the Weld County Coroner’s Office will release her identity at a later time.
Neither driver involved was injured in the crash. Police said they don’t expect charges to be filed against those drivers at the moment, but the case remains under investigation. The police department asked anyone with information on the crash to contact Officer Ed Kubala at Edward.Kubala@greeleypd.com.
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While Colorado ranks near the middle of U.S. states for carbon emissions per capita, it still produces enough CO2 per person to rival countries on the World Bank’s list of top emitters internationally.
In 2023, Colorado produced 13.9 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per capita. If it had been ranked by the World Bank during the same year, Colorado would have placed 14th among the more than 200 countries on the list, just behind Canada, at 14.1, and just ahead of the U.S. as a whole, at 13.7.
Among U.S. states, Colorado ranked 26th in carbon emissions per capita. Wyoming had the highest per capita emissions in the country, at 92.9 metric tons, while Maryland had the lowest, at 7.8.
Most of Colorado’s emissions come from energy production and consumption, primarily natural gas and oil production and electric power production and consumption.
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Colorado State Energy Profile, U.S. Energy Information Administration, accessed in December 2025. Source link
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2023 Colorado Statewide Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, pg. 128, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, November 2024. Source link
Senate Bill 24-230 Oil and Gas Production Fees, Colorado General Assembly, accessed in December, 2025. Source link
Senate Bill 23-016 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Measures, Colorado General Assembly, accessed in December 2025. Source link
Carbon dioxide emissions, World Bank Group, 2024, accessed in December 2025. Source link
Energy-related CO2 emission data tables, U.S. Energy Information Administration, accessed in December 2025. Source link
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Cassis Tingley is a Denver-based freelance journalist. She’s spent the last three years covering topics ranging from political organizing and death doulas in the Denver community to academic freedom and administrative accountability at the…
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