Winter weather advisory issued for Winter Park area starting the night of Friday, Feb. 7
The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for areas in Grand County above 9,000 feet in elevation. The advisory is set to take effect at 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, and last until 7 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, and applies primarily to Berthoud Pass and Winter Park.
Snow accumulations with totals from 4–10 inches are expected along with wind gusts as high as 60 mph, the advisory states. Travelers should plan for slippery road conditions and wind gusts producing blowing snow and poor visibility over mountain passes.
Current travel conditions can be viewed at CoTrip.org.
Grand County’s ski resorts are expected to reap the bounty of the weekend storm, with further accumulations expected to continue into next week. The weather blog OpenSnow.com projects that, over the next five days, Winter Park Resort will receive 10 inches of snow and Granby Ranch will receive 8 inches.
OpenSnow founding meteorologist Joel Gratz stated in a blog post that following the weekend storm, two storms next week should continue the accumulation, with the most snow possible around Friday, Feb. 14.
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