One product issued by NWS for: 7 Miles N Leadville North CO
Hazardous Weather Outlook
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Pueblo CO 521 AM MST Sat Jan 18 2025 COZ058>089-093>099-191230- Western Mosquito Range/East Lake County Above 11000 Feet- Leadville Vicinity/Lake County Below 11000 Feet- Eastern Sawatch Mountains Above 11000 Feet- Western Chaffee County Between 9000 and 11000 Feet- Central Chaffee County Below 9000 Feet- Western Mosquito Range/East Chaffee County Above 9000 Feet- Saguache County West of Continental Divide Below 10000 Feet- Saguache County East of Continental Divide Below 10000 Feet- La Garita Mountains Above 10000 Feet- Upper Rio Grande Valley/Eastern San Juan Mountains Below 10000 Feet-Eastern San Juan Mountains Above 10000 Feet- Del Norte Vicinity/Northern San Luis Valley Below 8500 Feet- Alamosa Vicinity/Central San Luis Valley Below 8500 Feet- Southern San Luis Valley- Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 8500 And 11000 Feet- Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Feet- Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 7500 and 11000 Feet- Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Feet- Northwestern Fremont County Above 8500 Feet- Western/Central Fremont County Below 8500 Feet- Wet Mountain Valley Below 8500 Feet- Wet Mountains between 6300 and 10000 Feet- Wet Mountains Above 10000 Feet- Teller County/Rampart Range Above 7500 Feet/Pikes Peak Between 7500 And 11000 Feet-Pikes Peak Above 11000 Feet- Canon City Vicinity/Eastern Fremont County- Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below 7500 Feet- Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below 7400 Feet-Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet- Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Feet- Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Feet- Crowley County-La Junta Vicinity/Otero County- Eastern Las Animas County-Western Kiowa County- Eastern Kiowa County-Las Animas Vicinity/Bent County- Lamar Vicinity/Prowers County-Springfield Vicinity/Baca County- 521 AM MST Sat Jan 18 2025 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of central...east central...south central and southeast Colorado. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Snow showers continue throughout the day today, especially over the southern I-25 corridor, the southern Sangres, and the Wet mountains, where snowfall rates will be heaviest. These areas will see an additional 4 to 8 inches of new snow through the rest of today, along with potential travel impacts from wind driven snow on area roadways. Please use caution if you must travel today, especially over La Veta Pass and the Raton Mesa. Temperatures and wind chills remain near and just below zero throughout the daytime hours today, with the beginning of a 3 day stretch of dangerously cold wind chills starting tonight. Wind chills look to fall into the single digits to low teens below zero across the plains tonight, with readings in the twenties and thirties below zero over the majority of the high country. The highest peaks of the central mountains will be the coldest, with wind chills around 40F below zero tonight. At 18F below zero, frostbite can set in on exposed skin in less than 30 minutes. At 25F below zero, it takes than 15 minutes. Please take extra precautions if you must be outside tonight! .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday Bitter to dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills will persist across much of southern Colorado through Tuesday morning. Wind chill readings will remain in the single digits to negative readings through the day time hours and drop into the negative teens and negative 20s at night with wind chill readings as cold as 50 below zero Tuesday night across the higher mountains. Frost bite at some of these colder values could occur in as little as 10 minutes, and even at the warmer wind chill values could occur in as little as 30 minutes. Please take precautions to shelter people and animals from this extreme cold! The coldest readings will occur Monday night and Tuesday. Another round of light snow associated with a secondary arctic cold front will spread in for Sunday night and Monday. This could produce an additional 1 to 2 inches of snow in and near the mountains. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather conditions that meet reporting criteria for spotters will be likely over portions of the region. $$ EHR/31