Skip to player
Skip to main content
Skip to footer
Search
Connect
Watch fullscreen
Like
Comments
Bookmark
Share
Add to Playlist
Report
Tracking snow across the Front Range
AccuWeather
Follow
1/30/2025
AccuWeather's Tony Laubach was live from Castle Rock, Colorado, where snow was making travel tricky for drivers on Jan. 30.
Category
🗞
News
Transcript
Display full video transcript
00:00
Snow is falling today across the Eastern Colorado Front Range.
00:05
Yeah, so our Tony Laubach, AccuWeather meteorologist, joins us live from Casserole, Colorado
00:11
with a look at what we can expect today. Tony, good morning.
00:17
Good morning, Ari. Tony in the gloves, as you always like to remind me, the mother in you,
00:22
to keep safe and warm out here. Fortunately, it's not overly cold.
00:27
We don't have a lot of wind out here, so the AccuWeather real field temperature
00:30
and the actual temperature are hovering right about 30 degrees.
00:34
For most of you, that's pretty chilly. For me, it's almost summer-like.
00:37
But here, I-25 behind me, see traffic a little slower than the last time you saw us here
00:42
about an hour ago as we're just starting to get into sunrise here as the snow continues to come down.
00:47
About a half an inch so far here in Castle Rock, although we are starting to pick up heavier amounts,
00:51
especially as you get a little bit further south toward Colorado Springs and particularly out east.
00:56
Along I-70 near Lyman, that's where some of the heaviest snow is coming down right now.
01:01
But it has already caused some problems. We'll show you this video.
01:04
This, just about an hour ago, right on I-25, about a mile north of where I'm situated here,
01:10
just a little slide off here with two cars that collided with each other.
01:14
Some of those slick conditions exist, especially as you get onto the on-ramps and off-ramps
01:19
where you're starting to make those moves between lanes.
01:22
That's where things are starting to get a little bit slick.
01:24
I've noticed a lot of the side streets also pretty slick as well.
01:27
I've seen a few cars that are having some issues with some of the turns,
01:30
especially on some of the intersections here.
01:32
We're in kind of some hilly terrain, though, so a lot of the intersections kind of have turns
01:36
that dive down or up hills, and that makes it a little difficult for some drivers to get around.
01:40
So it's going to be a slow go here this morning, especially south of Denver,
01:44
particularly Colorado Springs, even down to Pueblo and Trinidad, further down I-25
01:49
and southern Colorado, seeing some pretty good snow.
01:51
So it's going to be a messy morning commute for a lot of the I-25 urban corridor
01:56
here in northeast Colorado.
01:58
As we go through the rest of the morning, I think really the biggest impacts are going to be out east.
02:03
I think I-70 east of Denver between Denver and Lyman, that is going to be a huge trouble spot.
02:08
One of the terrain features here we call the Palmer Divide,
02:11
which is usually very instrumental in tornadic production out this way.
02:15
It's going to be an issue with the snow because we see a lot of upslope in that area.
02:19
Elevated terrain out as you get a little further east, and that is going to cause some issues out that way.
02:24
So it wouldn't surprise me if we see some significant issues on I-70 east of Denver.
02:29
For the metro area itself, if you're waking up with us, like again, south and east, you're going to do all right.
02:35
We're going to be a lot of disappointed snow lovers today, I think, especially as you get further north.
02:40
Areas from, say, Thornton, Westminster, up toward Fort Collins, Greeley, up in my neck of the woods,
02:46
likely not to see much of any snow at all up that way, but could see some significant accumulations again
02:51
along a band from Colorado Springs, Castle Rock, northeast into the eastern plains there.
02:58
So that's going to be the issue for us here today.
03:00
That snow is going to clear up pretty quickly, guys, and then believe it or not,
03:04
we're going to be talking about 60s here in the next couple of days.
03:09
Tony, I'm glad you have the gloves, but now it's like, where's your hat?
03:12
You won't need it in the next couple of days.
03:14
This is Tony Lovack in a snowy Castle Rock, Colorado, this morning.
Recommended
3:50
|
Up next
Tracking snow and late-week storms
AccuWeather
11/6/2024
3:20
Heavy-hitting snowstorm causes travel problems in Colorado
AccuWeather
1/30/2025
2:01
Historic snow buries the High Plains
AccuWeather
3/8/2024
1:11
Heavy snowfall causes roads to close in Colorado
AccuWeather
11/6/2024
1:02
Nasty road conditions as winter storm buries Colorado in snow
AccuWeather
1/30/2025
4:07
Snow covers streets across Hampton Roads
AccuWeather
2/20/2025
4:41
Historic November snow piles up across Colorado
AccuWeather
11/8/2024
0:32
More snow falls on Colorado
AccuWeather
1/25/2025
3:15
Snow piles up in Colorado, shutting down interstates
AccuWeather
11/7/2024
2:21
Winter storm dusts Kansas City area with snow
AccuWeather
2/14/2025
1:10
Heavy snow causing highway closures in Wyoming
AccuWeather
1/5/2022
1:34
Tracking snow in the southeast
AccuWeather
1/8/2021
2:36
Winter makes a comeback in Colorado
AccuWeather
3/17/2022
2:15
Drivers stranded as heavy snow shuts down interstate in Wyoming
AccuWeather
10/13/2021
2:57
Heavy snow falls in Colorado as winter storm arrives
AccuWeather
12/9/2023
5:07
Sierra snowpack secures Southern California water
AccuWeather
4/27/2025
3:49
Snow piles up in eastern Colorado
AccuWeather
11/9/2024
3:33
Heavy snow falls across Virginia's Tidewater region
AccuWeather
2/20/2025
3:40
Midweek winter blast arrives in the Windy City
AccuWeather
2/13/2025
2:40
Truckers come to a halt as snowstorm begins in the Northeast
AccuWeather
1/29/2022
0:49
Snow removal continues as snow piles up in California
AccuWeather
2/20/2024
0:56
Snow piles up in the High Sierra
AccuWeather
2/21/2024
2:51
Nashville sees its snowiest day since 2016
AccuWeather
1/7/2022
1:48
Snow and ice create treacherous travel conditions in and around Nashville
AccuWeather
1/16/2024
1:50
Spring snow sweeps across Colorado
AccuWeather
3/21/2022