Coldest Weather of the Winter Next Week?

**Update 12/12 @ 6:30MST**

• Cold still on track
• 1st call snowfall (east of Foothills) = 2-4"
• 1st call snowfall (western mountains) = 1-3 feet
• Full post to follow later today....
  

As I've been alluding to for a couple weeks now, it looks like the middle of December is going to be abnormally cold for Colorado (as well as much of the western half of the nation). While the exact magnitude of the cold is still somewhat unclear, I can tell you that we may have several days (or more) of temperatures 25+ degrees below average.

If the cold gets as bad as I think it very well could, we're probably talking about several days during which high temperatures will only make it to the upper single digits or low teens (!) and overnight lows could drop to -15 -- which would probably be record-breaking.

My gut feeling is that the 7 day period from December 14 through at least December 21 may be one of the coldest stretches this entire winter, if not, quite possibly, the coldest stretch.

While this doesn't look like a pattern that is going to produce a lot of snow east of the Front Range (though light snow is likely this Sunday), the mountains may see quite a lot during this period.

I'll keep you posted....