Colorado
Significant Colorado snowstorm to impact Thanksgiving travel plans
Winter weather: What warnings, watches and advisories mean
The National Weather Service issues warnings, watches and advisories depending on conditions to alert the public.
A significant snowstorm will reach Colorado just in time to impact Thanksgiving travel.
If you can get to Colorado’s ski slopes before the storm arrives, you will enjoy some fantastic skiing.
Generally, travel conditions will be worse in the mountains and tapering to the Eastern Plains.
Here are details regarding the impending storm, according to the National Weather Service as of Monday morning:
Here is where and when winter storm warning is in place
- Winter storm warning: 3 a.m. Tuesday to 11 p.m. Wednesday with total snow accumulations between 10 and 20 inches for most areas, including the Front Range mountains; Park and Gore Ranges, including Rabbit Ears Pass, Rocky Mountain National Park, Medicine Bow Range, mountains of Summit County, Mosquito Range and Indian Peaks Wilderness. Road closures and very difficult travel conditions expected. Call 511 or visit cotrip.org for travel conditions.
Timing of the snowstorm and how it will impact travel
- Tuesday morning: Light to moderate snow begins for areas above 9,000 feet. Rain showers for lower elevations along the I-25 corridor.
- Tuesday afternoon/night: Heaviest snowfall expected to happen during this time in the mountains, especially above 10,000 feet, with mountain travel difficult over mountain passes. Light snow begins for areas above 7,000 feet with rain/snow mix possible for I-76 and I-25 corridor.
- Wednesday morning: Colder air arrives with lighter snow. Accumulation on roads could impact travel on the Eastern Plains and Palmer Divide.
- Thursday (Thanksgiving): Slick roads likely as roads freeze overnight, otherwise chilly and mostly dry.
Here are forecast snowfall totals for Fort Collins area and statewide
Wide snowfall total ranges are due in part because of when rain may turn to snow.
Larimer/Weld counties
- Fort Collins: 0-3 inches
- Loveland: 0-4 inches
- Wellington: 0-2 inches
- Windsor: 0-2 inches
- Greeley: 0-2 inches
- Berthoud: 0-4 inches
- Estes Park: 1-11 inches
- Red Feather Lakes: 2-9 inches
- Virginia Dale: 0-6 inches
- Cameron Pass: 12-26 inches
- Bear Lake (RMNP): 8-20 inches
- Milner Pass (RMNP): 11-25 inches
- Buckhorn Mountain: 1-9 inches
Other Colorado cities
- Denver: 1-2 inches
- DIA: 0-3 inches
- Boulder: 1-2 inches
- Castle Rock: 4-6 inches
- Colorado Springs: 2-3 inches
Colorado mountains/ski areas
- Steamboat Springs: 12-18 inches
- Winter Park: 18-24 inches
- Vail: 12-18 inches
- Aspen: 8-12 inches
- Breckenridge: 6-13 inches
- Breckenridge ski area: 15-34 inches
- Copper Mountain: 13-28 inches
- Keystone ski area: 13-26 inches
- Eisenhower Tunnel: 15-30 inches
- Berthoud Pass: 14-31 inches
- Loveland Pass: 14-27 inches
- Vail Pass: 13-25 inches
- Grand Lake: 7-15 inches
- Rabbit Ears Pass: 15-26 inches
Here is a look at the Fort Collins forecast for Thanksgiving week
- Monday: Sunny, with a high near 46 degrees, south-southeast wind 3 to 7 mph and low around 23.
- Tuesday: 30% chance of rain/snow mix until noon, then chance of afternoon rain, with little to no snow accumulation. Partly sunny, with a high near 49, southeast wind around 5 mph.
- Tuesday night: 70% chance of precipitation. Rain likely before 11 p.m., then rain and snow likely. New snow accumulation of less than a half-inch possible. Cloudy, with a low around 29 and northwest wind 3 to 6 mph.
- Wednesday: 50% chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 39, north wind 7 to 14 mph, gusting to 21. 30% chance of snow before 11 p.m. Low around 16.
- Thursday (Thanksgiving Day): Sunny, with a high near 39 and low around 15.
- Friday: Sunny, with a high near 42 and low around 18.
- Saturday (CSU home football game): Sunny, with a high near 40 and low around 15.
- Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 39.
Colorado
Air Force RB Owen Allen Shines in Double-Digit Win vs. Colorado State
Air Force running back Owen Allen dashed for 107 yards and two touchdowns, tight end Bruin Fleischmann caught both of his targets for 61 yards and two touchdowns, and Air Force took down Colorado State 42-21 on Friday to recapture the Ram-Falcon Trophy in the final game of the season for both teams.
The Falcons (4-8, 3-5 Mountain West) took the lead on the opening drive of the game as Fleischmann hauled in a 55-yard receiving score. Air Force scored on three of its four first-half drives, and only punted once throughout the game.
Josh Johnson completed all four of his passing attempts for 104 yards and two touchdowns, and added 22 yards and a score on the ground.
The Rams (2-10, 1-7) were led by Jackson Brousseau’s 323 yards and two touchdowns on 28-of-37 passing. It’s the first 10-loss season since 1988 for Colorado State, which is leaving the Mountain West to play in the Pac-12 next season.
Air Force holds the edge in the series, 40-22-1, and have won eight of the last nine meetings.
Reporting by The Associated Press.
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“Madsgiving” feeds thousands after Colorado community steps in to save event
What looked nearly impossible just a few weeks ago became a Thanksgiving miracle in Aurora.
Madsgiving is the annual effort that prepares and delivers thousands of meals to people experiencing homelessness, seniors, and families in need. It was on the verge of collapse earlier this month.
The longtime chefs who normally anchor the event were deployed to Jamaica to help rebuild kitchens damaged by Hurricane Melissa. Without them, organizers suddenly had no chefs and no kitchen just weeks before Thanksgiving.
Lead Pastor Dwayne Johnson of Mean Street Worship Center has helped distribute Madsgiving meals for seven years.
“At first, it started out as panic,” he said. “But then the community started coming together. Other agencies, ministries, and chefs came alongside us.”
One of the first to answer that call for help was Pesto Italiano, a new restaurant that opened in Englewood this summer. Chef Pablo had never cooked a Thanksgiving meal in his kitchen before – and certainly not at the scale Madsgiving requires.
“This was the first year we tried something like this,” he said. “We just opened in June. The first thing we wanted to do was help the community.”
Pesto Italiano donated their kitchen and their chefs, giving volunteers access to a full professional space to roast, prep, and assemble thousands of meals.
“With all the volunteers that came to help us, it was possible,” Pablo said. “We wanted to create something with love, passion, and quality – something people could enjoy the same way any family does on Thanksgiving.”
His team even improvised when dozens of turkeys arrived still on the bone and behind schedule. Pablo grilled and roasted them, finishing with a sauce of orange and rosemary. He even used pizza ovens to get the job done.
Johnson says the scale of collaboration was unlike anything he’s seen.
The Amish community from southern Colorado also stepped in, preparing meals on Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
By midday Thursday, every group Madsgiving serves had been reached: people living in cars and under bridges, seniors in assisted living, nursing home residents, and people facing hunger across the city.
What started as a call for help became one of the largest Madsgiving efforts yet, powered by strangers, volunteers, churches, restaurants, and neighbors who refused to let the tradition die.
“To the world, you’re one person,” Johnson said. “But to one person, you become the world. Today, miracles happened.”
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Here’s where Colorado’s gray wolves roamed in past month
Colorado’s gray wolves stuck a little closer to central parts of the state in late October and November, roaming into watersheds that reach metro Denver and near tribal lands to the south, according to a map released Wednesday.
The monthly Colorado Parks and Wildlife map shows the broad movements of 20 gray wolves that wear GPS collars. If an area is highlighted, that means at least one wolf was in a watershed at least one time during the time frame, according to state officials.
Between Oct. 21 and Tuesday, gray wolves traveled in watersheds that reach as far north as the Wyoming state line; as far east as Boulder, Jefferson, Adams and Broomfield counties; the northern edge of Archuleta County to the south; and Meeker in Rio Blanco County to the west.
Most wolf activity appeared to take place around the Continental Divide, with wolf movement tracked near Walden, Granby, Vail, Aspen and Gunnison.
The wolves also explored near tribal lands to the south, Parks and Wildlife officials said. The state has an agreement with the Southern Ute tribe and is working to finish a similar agreement with the Ute Mountain Ute tribe to address potential impacts of wolf reintroduction.
Of Colorado’s 20 collared gray wolves, 15 were captured elsewhere and released in Colorado, three are yearlings from the Copper Creek Pack and two are adults from the One Ear Pack, according to Parks and Wildlife.
State officials will not be able to confirm whether wolf pups born this year were “successfully recruited” into Colorado’s wolf population until later this winter, Parks and Wildlife spokesperson Luke Perkins said in a statement.
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