Denver, CO
Colorado weather: Another foot of snow possible for Denver, 3 feet forecast for mountains
Another foot of snow could fall in Denver this week and more than 3 feet of fresh snow is forecast for Colorado’s mountains, according to the National Weather Service.
The first snow of the season stuck in Denver on Tuesday, totaling nearly 2 inches by 8:30 p.m., according to NWS snow totals. But forecasters say that the worst of the storm, which is expected to continue through Friday, is still on its way.
Between 5 a.m. Wednesday and 5 a.m. Friday, downtown Denver and Denver International Airport could see between 5 inches and 1 foot of fresh snow, according to NWS snow forecasts.
Aurora, Centennial and Highlands Ranch could all see between 7 inches and 2 feet of new snowfall by Friday morning and Parker could see between 9 and 17 inches, NWS forecasters said.
A Winter Weather Advisory remains in effect for Boulder, Jefferson, Broomfield, Douglas, Denver, Adams, Arapahoe and Broomfield counties until 11 p.m. Wednesday, forecasters said.
The heaviest Denver-area snow will fall in the south and southwestern metro, according to the weather advisory.
“Travel could be difficult,” forecasters said in the advisory. “The hazardous conditions could impact the Wednesday morning and evening commutes.”
According to a NWS Hazardous Weather Alert, the southern foothills, Palmer Divide and east-central plains could see “near-blizzard conditions” throughout the day.
Higher elevations, especially Colorado’s mountain passes, are forecast to get more than 3 feet of fresh snowfall by Friday morning. Forecasters said:
- Cordova Pass in southwestern Colorado’s Spanish Peaks could see between 27 and 44 inches of snow;
- Wolf Creek Pass and La Manga Pass in southwestern Colorado’s San Juan Mountains could see between 10 and 21 inches of snow;
- Cucharas Pass, North La Veta Pass and Pass Creek Pass in central Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains could see between 19 and 36 inches of snow;
- Raton Pass near the Colorado-New Mexico border could see between 27 and 36 inches of snow.
A Winter Storm Warning for the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and a Winter Weather Advisory for the San Juan Mountains remain in effect until 11 p.m. Wednesday.
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Originally Published:
Congratulations, passengers aboard United Flight 5528 into Denver on Saturday night, you made it snow. More precisely, your airplane did, as did other aircraft landing at Denver International Airport that evening, but the United jet fared particularly well as a weather-maker, reports the Washington Post. In the story, meteorologist Matthew Cappucci explains that planes arriving between around 6pm and 7pm inadvertently flew through “a cloud of supercooled water droplets” and triggered a light snowfall. It was modest enough that nothing accumulated on the ground.
The phenomenon has been documented before, but it’s relatively rare and requires just the right combination of below-freezing temperatures and high relative humidity, explains a post at ViewFromtheWing. The “supercooled water droplets” mentioned above remain liquid under such conditions because they have “nothing to freeze onto to become snowflakes,” writes Cappucci. The jets give them that something—tiny particulates in the exhaust. The same general principle of “artificial ice nuclei” applies to the practice of cloud seeding, which CNN previously explained here. (More strange stuff stories.)
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Denver, CO
Denver Health unveils naloxone vending machine that offers live-saving drug free of charge
Denver Health unveiled a no-cost naloxone vending machine on its hospital campus on Monday. The vending machine distributes the life-saving drug naloxone, otherwise known as Narcan, free of charge.
It’s available to the community through the National Institute of Drug Abuse’s VEnding machine Naloxone Distribution in Your community, or VENDY, program.
“We really engaged our community members with substance use experience to help us build this program. They told us how this could work to build the program,” said Nicole Wagner, PhD, Assistant Professor, CU School of Medicine.
“This machine is simple and elegant and so is the message: your life matters regardless of your disease,” said Sarah Christensen, MD, Medical Director of Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment, at Denver Health.
Those who want access to naloxone can visit the vending machine at the Denver Health Hospital Campus, outside Pavilion K, located at 667 Bannock St. There are also medication and hygiene kits available for free 24 hours a day.
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