{"id":2452784,"date":"2020-01-01T07:09:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T14:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=318546"},"modified":"2020-01-01T07:09:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T14:09:11","slug":"winter-storm-set-to-hit-aspen-area-wednesday-with-heavy-snow-into-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/winter-storm-set-to-hit-aspen-area-wednesday-with-heavy-snow-into-thursday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter storm set to hit Aspen area Wednesday with heavy snow into Thursday night"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Winter storm advisory (purple) and warnings (pink) have been issued for parts of Colorado and Utah into Thursday night.<\/strong>
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Ringing in the new year with a series of snowstorms that could bring nearly a foot of snow is in the weather forecast for the Aspen area and Colorado mountains, according to updates Wednesday morning from the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n

A winter weather advisory<\/a> has been issued starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday and lasting until late Thursday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cSnow will develop over the northern plateau and northern mountains (Wednesday) morning, becoming heavy this afternoon while spreading into the central and southern mountains later in the day,\u201d according to the weather service.<\/p>\n

\u201cSix to 12 inches of new snow is possible across the Elkhead, Park, Gore and Flat Tops by sunrise Thursday. 4 to 8 inches of snow are possible across the Grand Mesa, Elk and other central Colorado mountains during this time. \u2026 Significant travel impacts are likely as this winter storm moves through the area.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NWS office in Grand Junction is calling for a \u201cseries of cold and moist Pacific storms\u201d moving across western Colorado starting New Year\u2019s Day and lasting through late this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis favorable weather pattern may bring locally heavy snowfall to the mountains and high valleys for an extended period of time with only short breaks in snowfall between storms,\u201d according to a special weather statement. \u201cThis cold and unsettled pattern could persist into the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Light snowfall is expected to start Wednesday morning in the Aspen and Snowmass area and heavier snowfall will start later in the day and into Thursday, the NWS predicts.<\/p>\n

Those planning to travel in the mountains should be prepared for difficult conditions and delays. Travel could be very difficult, especially over   mountain passes, the weather advisory states, and patchy blowing snow could significantly reduce   visibility.<\/p>\n

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The Colorado Avalanche Information Center says avalanche danger for Wednesday is moderate (level 2 of 5).<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are most likely to trigger the largest avalanches on slopes near and above treeline that face north through northeast to east,\u201d according to the CAIC report<\/a>. \u201cThe deepest wind-drifted slabs rest on the weakest snow here. Don\u2019t be lulled into complacency on other slopes, though, the weak now structure exists on other aspects and elevations as well.\u201d <\/p>\n

After that, drier weather arrives late Friday and Saturday, before another round of snow moves in Sunday and Monday, the weather service said.<\/p>\n

Keep up with the conditions:<\/strong>
\u2022 Forecast and recent weather stories: aspentimes.com\/news\/weather<\/a>. \u2022 Local storm warnings and advisories: noaa.gov<\/a> \u2022 Aspen Snowmass ski area forecasts: aspensnowmass.com<\/a> \u2022 Road conditions, closures and traffic cameras: cotrip.org<\/a>. \u2022 Travel information by phone: 511 (in Colorado) or 303-639-1111. \u2022 Avalanche danger and conditions: avalanche.state.co.us<\/a>. \u2022 Aspen airport flight information: aspenairport.com<\/a>via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winter storm advisory (purple) and warnings (pink) have been issued for parts of Colorado and Utah into Thursday night.National Weather Service Ringing in the new year with a series of snowstorms that could bring nearly a foot of snow is in the weather forecast for the Aspen area and Colorado mountains, according to updates Wednesday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 23:20:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}