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A slow-moving storm brought snow and rain Friday to Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n
Radar systems showed the storm moving in a counterclockwise motion Friday afternoon, like a galaxy orbiting a super-massive black hole, with the Four Corners positioned near the center.<\/p>\n
Another storm to the east was blocking Friday\u2019s storm from making a swift exit, said Dennis Phillips, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Grand Junction.<\/p>\n
The coldest temperatures were over the Four Corners, including Cortez, Durango and the southern San Juan Mountains, he said. The system was creating thunderstorms in northern Colorado, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe system is very big,\u201d he said. \u201cIt extends from Wyoming all the way through the Southwest. There is a system downstream that\u2019s blocking this one from swinging through, so that\u2019s why it\u2019s pretty expansive and spinning a lot of stuff in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n
The snow and rain are expected to stick around through Saturday morning before heading east. Forecasters predicted scattered showers through Saturday in Durango.<\/p>\n
Phillips called it a fairly typical storm for this time of year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is what Colorado is all about, sunny one day and snow the next,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Forecasters predict a similar system to blow through the region on Monday and Tuesday. A winter storm warning was in effect for the Southwest Colorado mountains from noon Monday to 6 p.m. Tuesday. Eight to 14 inches of snow were forecast for the San Juan Mountains, affecting towns including Telluride, Rico, Hesperus, Ouray, Silverton and Crested Butte.<\/p>\n
Montezuma County was expected to get mostly rain, with intermittent snowfall on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis time of year, with these storms, sometimes the models have to catch up,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cRight now, it\u2019s not favoring a lot of southern\/southwest Colorado \u2026 but that could definitely change.\u201d<\/p>\n