A major winter storm is developing on Friday over north Texas and Oklahoma.
That causes the winds rotating counter-clockwise around the storm to blow from the east into the Front Range. As the wind races up the mountains, it cools and condenses out the water into snow, essentially setting up Denver and Colorado Springs for a giant snow-maker. I’m thinking a total of about 1 to 1 ½ feet of snow are possible for eastern Colorado, as well as northeast and northwest Kansas.
As the storm starts to tighten and strengthen into the Plains, the winds will start to gust over 35 miles per hour and the blowing snow will bring visibility down to less than ¼ mile. That’s why blizzard warnings are posted for a few counties in Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska until Saturday afternoon. It’s a slow moving storm, so the snow will be over the same spot for a long period of time, allowing for those major accumulations.
Below the storm in the warm sector (the area between the warm front and cold front), be prepared for severe storms from Dallas to Shreveport, up to Tulsa and Little Rock. Some of the storms on Friday could pack a punch, with large hail and isolated tornadoes, so heads up.
Eventually this weekend, the whole schmear heads east into the Mid-Atlantic states, producing rain and some Sunday afternoon snow in central Virginia.
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