Get ready for snow, and lots of it. Wednesday and Thursday look like powder days. Saturday, Sunday and Monday as well.

• Tuesday during daylight hours it will be dry, then snow arrives around sunset entering the state from the west northwest. This storm is forecast to last through most of Wednesday. The European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts high resolution model from Monday morning shows accumulation totals from this storm to be between 1-10 inches (south to north), with the Park Range (Steamboat, Howelsen) slated to receive the most; 5-10 inches.

• After a short pause in the action Wednesday afternoon/evening, a second storm is forecast for Wednesday night through Thursday, bringing more snow to the southern mountains on a southwest flow, giving the San Juan Mountains accumulations between 5-10 inches.

Snow totals on Thursday morning from both storms show the northern mountains receiving up to 12 inches, potentially more; looking at you Steamboat.

The central mountains could receive between 4-8 inches, with Pitkin County (Aspen/Snowmass), northern Gunnison County (Crested Butte) and southern Eagle County (Vail and Beaver Creek), Summit County (Breckenridge, Copper, Keystone, A-Basin) and Lake County (Cooper) receiving the most.

The northern side of the San Juans (Telluride and Silverton, sometimes Kendall) are forecast to receive 4-8 inches, with the potential for Wolf Creek to receive similar.

• Friday is forecast to be calm before a multi-day storm with multiple waves of storm energy crosses Colorado from Saturday to early Tuesday morning.

The ECMWF high resolution model forecast for Saturday has snow accumulating in most central and northern mountain ranges all day before snow begins to work its way into the southern mountains before midnight.

Sunday is going to be a powder day up north and in the northwest part of the state.

• By sunrise Sunday, snow is forecast to be falling from a line starting in Greeley southwest toward Durango, with accumulations in the mountains from 0.2-1.2 inches of snow-water equivalent every three hours, equaling between 3-18 inches in a 15-hour period.

• Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is going to be another powder day, this time nearly everywhere. On top of the snows from Friday and Saturday for Saturday and Sunday skiing and riding, another 3-12 inches is forecast to fall by Monday morning, with snow showers continuing on Monday.

The higher snow accumulations will be in the northern and northwest mountains, but the central mountains should get between 5-10 inches of snow, and the southern mountains between 4-8 inches as well. Of course, Colorado has had a few surprise storms to start 2024, however as the weekend nears, more details regarding more focused snow totals will be learned.

Snow on Monday continues into Tuesday morning with another 1-7 inches forecast before finally a short break from the storms on Tuesday.

Of note: The storms beginning Saturday, particularly Saturday, are trending warmer than the previous storms mid-week and the storms last weekend. If the moisture contents are higher with these storms too, heavier snows can accumulate.

Today’s 24 hour snow total from Colorado resorts:

Arapahoe Basin – 1″

Aspen Mountain – 2″

Aspen Highlands – 0″

Beaver Creek – 1″

Breckenridge – 1″

Buttermilk – 0″

Cooper – 0″

Copper Mountain – 1″

Crested Butte – 1″

Echo Mountain – 1″

Eldora Mountain – 3″

Granby Ranch – 0″

Hesperus – Closed for season

Howelsen Hill – 0″

Kendall Mountain – 0″, open weekends

Keystone – 0″

Loveland – 1″

Monarch – 0″

Powderhorn – 2″

Purgatory – 0″

Silverton – 2″

Snowmass – 0″

Steamboat – 4″

Sunlight – 0″

Telluride – 1″

Vail – 1″

Winter Park – 1″

Wolf Creek – 0″