Wednesday through Saturday — only four more days — of warm temperatures, in-and-out sunshine and scattered snow showers before cooler air and snow return to Colorado’s high country.

Early forecast models call for between 10-30 inches of snow from Sunday to Tuesday, perhaps into Wednesday, as a set of larger scale storms track across the state.

Recap:

On Tuesday, weather around the state was mostly dry and calm, with temperatures in the 30s and low 40s. The high in Vail Village was 39 degrees.

Forecast:

On Wednesday and Thursday, sunny days and potential snow showers nights are forecast for multiple mountain areas around Colorado, mostly focused around the Continental Divide along the Front Range and in the San Juan mountains.

Day time heating will melt and/or evaporate some snowpack accompanied with moisture streaming in from the west coast to form possible pop up snow showers each afternoon. Snow accumulations will be light, however, with a dusting to one inch possible.

On Thursday, a storm clips Colorado from the north, brining similar accumulations to the northern and western mountains, with ski areas and resorts along I-70 perhaps seeing 1-2 inches of snow for Friday’s first chair.

On Friday and Saturday, drier weather and warmer temperatures return ahead of the prolonged storm(s) from Saturday night to Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.

The ECMWF synoptic composite model forecasts a lot of moisture over Colorado Saturday night, just ahead of the colder air to the west. Snow will form into Sunday morning and be heavy at times in the western, northwestern and northern San Juan mountains before all mountain zones begin receiving snow by Sunday afternoon.

Monday’s first chairs could offer between 4-10 inches in the southern mountains, 8-12 inches in the western and central mountains, and 4-8 inches in the northern and eastern mountains. Powderhorn, Wolf Creek, Purgatory, Sunlight and Crested Butte could be the benefactors on Monday.

More snow is forecast to fall Monday, Tuesday and into Thursday with another 14-24 inches in the southern mountains 10-18 inches in the western, northern and central mountains. Tuesday’s first chairs could have between 6-10 inches in the southern mountains and between 4-8 inches everywhere else.

Long Range:

On Wednesday and Thursday snow continues across much of the state, with another 10-14 inches in the southern mountains, 2-10 inches in the northern mountains and 3-9 inches in the central mountains.

More details to come as these storms approach.

Today’s 24 hour snow totals from Colorado resorts:

Arapahoe Basin – 0″

Aspen Mountain – 0″

Aspen Highlands – 0″

Beaver Creek – 0″

Breckenridge – 0″

Buttermilk – 0″

Cooper – 0″

Copper Mountain – 0″

Crested Butte – 0″

Echo Mountain – 0″

Eldora Mountain – 0″

Granby Ranch – 0″

Hesperus – Closed for season

Howelsen Hill – 0″

Kendall Mountain – 0″, open weekends

Keystone – 0″

Loveland – 0″

Monarch – 0″

Powderhorn – 0″

Purgatory – 0″

Silverton – 0″

Snowmass – 0″

Steamboat – 0″

Sunlight – 0″

Telluride – 0″

Vail – 0″

Winter Park – 0″

Wolf Creek – 0″