Temperatures will finally lift above freezing Tuesday afternoon, after a bone-chilling holiday weekend that brought dangerously cold conditions across Colorado.
Tuesday morning will remain frigid, with temperatures in single digits to teens across the Denver metro and subzero along the I-25 corridor. Further west, Grand County received extreme cold warnings as temperatures plummeted to -44 degrees with wind chill overnight. Despite the lingering cold, the National Weather Service says by this afternoon, much of the state will be warming up.
“[We’re] finally climbing above freezing outside of the mountains,” Bruno Rodriguez, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said. “But there’s still some concerns as well for areas of blowing snow and drifting snow — especially closer to the foothills where we’re going to have breezy conditions basically through the day.”…