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If you want snow ... go to Colorado

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Denver's about to get hammered by a blizzard again. This map from the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (big version of inset map) shows the likelihood of 4 or more inches of snow, with the red indicating a virtual certainty. Many areas in central and eastern Colorado are expecting a foot or more over the next couple of days, and some will get more than 2 feet. Click here for the latest snow forecasts from the HPC.

New Year's travel won't be any better than Christmas travel ... it seems likely that Denver's airport will get backed up again. The skiing in the Colorado Rockies, though, will be superb. So winter is not missing everybody.

Give it another month or two, and this whole thing may flip around where Denver is basking while the eastern U.S. is shivering and shoveling. But it will be at least that long. Don't look for any big winter storm threats or prolonged cold outbreaks in our area until at least mid-January. Brief cooldowns and small winter weather threats, maybe. But for now, the real action is to our west.


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Kevin Myatt works on the copy desk for The Roanoke Times and is its principal weather geek, writing a weekly weather column and advising the newsroom on weather topics. He helps guide students on a storm chasing trip to the central U.S. each May and was an editor for "Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States."

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