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Rain, snow fall into our forecast

Equipped for the elements, Needham Elementary School physical education instructor Robin Oliger stops traffic to allow school children to cross onto school grounds Friday morning as rain moved through the area.

Color it another wet weekend in Southwest Colorado, with elevations above 9,000 feet predicted to see 6 to 12 inches of snow.

The Grand Junction office of the National Weather Service has issued a winter-storm warning at those elevations to be in effect through 9 a.m. Sunday.

“You could definitely see some snowflakes in Durango,” meteorologist Dennis Phillips said. “And the models are showing from three-quarter of an inch to 1½ inches of precipitation, so probably about an inch from all this.”

The region is heading into an active weather period during the next week, he said, with a short respite Sunday or Monday before the next storm moves in Monday night.

Iron Horse Bicycle Classic organizers may be in for another nail-biter because Phillips said Memorial Day weekend is looking like it has the potential to be a wet weekend.

“People filling up their reservoirs are happy, but everyone else, not so much,” he said. The Climate Prediction Center “kept telling us the spring would be wetter than usual, and we were saying, ‘Are you crazy? It’s so dry.’ But then, here we are.”



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