No fooling – more snow on the way

March will bid adieu to the Front Range and eastern plains as neither lion nor lamb, but April 1 could have a trick or two up its sleeve.

A northwest flow that is pushing an upper level trough from the region today may squeeze out some snow over the mountains, but no precipitation is expected over the plains, where temperatures will warm into the 40s, according to the National Weather Service.

That is expected to change on Wednesday, however.

An upper-level trough moving in from Utah will bring increasing moisture to the mountains tonight. A winter weather advisory is likely to be issued for the mountains from this evening through midnight Wednesday. Snowfall ranging from 2 to 6 inches is expected by Wednesday morning, with additional amounts falling throughout the day, the weather service said.

Forecasters said snowfall along the Front Range will start slowly Wednesday morning and continue for several hours. Light to moderate amounts are expected within the Interstate 25 corridor and out across the Palmer Divide. Snow depths of 2 to 4 inches in the Denver metro area and 3 to 6 inches on the Palmer Divide are predicted.

The system will move out Wednesday night, the weather service said, but winter weather isn’t over yet. Another storm system will move in from the Southwest on Friday, forecasters said.