While about two inches of snow fell in Denver overnight (along with eight inches in mountainous terrain just west of Nederland), drier-than-normal conditions continue to persist in Colorado.

As of January 19, Colorado’s snowpack sits at about 59 percent of the norm for the date – still at record lows (records date back to 1987).

As of Monday morning, the National Weather Service isn’t calling for much additional snow this week, either, with about one to two inches of snow expected in the ‘high-end’ scenario through Thursday across a large swath of central and eastern Colorado, per the National Weather Service. Meanwhile, a bit of relief could be on the way in days that follow, but not much.

Per a longer-term outlook from Pivotal Weather, between four and seven inches of snow should hit mountains in central and western Colorado Thursday night through Saturday evening. This report is echoed by Joel Gratz’ OpenSnow forecast, with Gratz noting that peak totals could hit about eight inches.

Unfortunately for Centennial State skiers and snowboarders, this round of snow will likely be the most significant through the end of the month, with only about seven to nine inches of total snow expected in parts of the state that get hit the hardest through February 2. This means a little bit of snow will move through after the upcoming weekend and prior to the month’s end, but it will be nothing to brag about.

There will be some snow through the second half of January, sure – it might even be able to push Colorado above record lows for a brief moment. That said, it’s likely that any snow that hits between January 22 and January 25 won’t be enough to keep enough to keep the state from dropping back to record setting lows by February 1.

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