After pummeling portions of the northern Rockies and the Plains with heavy snow, the storm system responsible for the wintry weather will begin to spread cold and snowy conditions to areas farther south that are not as accustomed to seeing flakes fly so early in the season.
Written content by Brandon Buckingham, AccuWeather Meteorologist via AccuWeather
Prior to the arrival of snow and ice across the southern Plains, snowflakes will fly across much of Colorado and the central Plains during the day on Sunday. In the wake of another difficult day of firefighting across northern Colorado on Saturday, heavy snow should largely help out firefighters and their ongoing efforts to extinguish the East Troublesome and Cameron Peak fires.
Residents in Denver will also have to deal with their fair share of cold and snowy weather Sunday as the storm barrels through the area. Mother Nature could also play an impactful role as the Kansas City Chiefs travel to the Mile High Stadium to take on the Broncos as cold, breezy and snowy conditions are expected. By the time the snow tapers off Monday morning, 6 to 10 inches of snow is expected across the Denver metropolitan area.
Wintry weather will continue to expand southward into the day on Monday, spreading down the Interstate 25 corridor into New Mexico. During the day, a wintry mixture of precipitation could even extend south of the Interstate 40 corridor in the Texas Panhandle.
Just last year, Amarillo observed their biggest ever October snowfall on record, tallying up nearly a half of a foot of snowfall, and while those snowfall totals are not expected with this storm in the city itself, portions of the northern panhandle have a shot at picking up some impressive totals.
In addition to the threat for accumulating snowfall, there will also be an icy element to the storm system across the southern Plains early this week. A significant ice storm could be in the offing for portions of the southern Plains.
As warm air near the surface of the ground clashes with the much colder air mass surging southward across the Plains, an atmospheric setup conducive for an icy mixture of precipitation is expected to develop across portions of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and possibly even into Missouri, as the storm system sits overhead. Read more from AccuWeather.
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