First Alert Weather Alert – Thursday: Cold Start, Wet Finish

Good Thursday morning! Bundle up out the door. We have a chilly start for us here in the valley with morning lows in the 40s. That’s the coldest start we’ve had since this past April! 

Our morning starts cold and dry with increasing clouds and a chance of rain heading into the afternoon. We’re looking at a wet couple of hours late Thursday into early Saturday morning with total rain accumulation between 0.25-0.75”. 

The First Alert Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert from 4pm Thursday to 7pm Friday — when we’ll likely see the bulk of our inclement weather.

If you’re driving through the mountains at this time watch for travel difficulties. Our Winter Storm Watch has been upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning and is in place from this morning until Saturday morning above 6,500’. We could see snow totals between 2-6” at lower elevations around 6,500, 6-12” between 7,000-8,000’ and potentially 12-18” above 8,000’.

Around the valley our wetter weather begins to taper off heading into our Saturday—though a few lingering showers could remain. We’ll dry out more for the second half of the day and the remainder of the weekend looks nice, mild and dry in the 70s. 

Looking ahead, we’ll see more sunshine and a slow warmup back to near normal temperatures heading into next week.