Left to right, Chris Maldonado, Dave Madison and Petr Janovsky of Professional Snow Removal clear a driveway of a house in north Boulder on Wednesday morning. (Marty Caivano)


Snow stopped falling in Boulder by late afternoon Wednesday, but with near-record-low temperatures, roads are expected to be icy overnight and into the morning commute.

Another inch of snow could accumulate Thursday morning, according to the National Weather Service, before the storm moves out. Skies will begin to clear on Friday — when temperatures climb into the 30s — but snow may be falling again in Boulder by Saturday night.

The cold front that moved in Tuesday evening dropped 6.9 inches of snow before stopping late afternoon Wednesday, said Boulder meteorologist Matt Kelsch. That's more than anywhere else in the metro area, including most mountain areas.

Eldora Mountain Resort reported a foot of upslope snow, but Kelsch said Nederland had less snow than Boulder, with 6.7 inches. At least 2 inches fell in Longmont, and Broomfield — like most of the Denver metro area — got about 1 to 3 inches, Kelsch said.

Packed snow and ice slowed traffic on U.S. 36 from Denver to Boulder on Wednesday morning, with traffic at a near stand-still between Sheridan Boulevard and Church Ranch Road.

Weather-related crashes on Wednesday included one that sent a Boulder woman waiting at a bus stop to the hospital after a man driving an SUV lost control of his vehicle and struck her.

Temperatures Wednesday did not climb out of the teens all day and were in the single digits well before midnight. The record temperature for Thursday morning is 2 degrees below zero, and Kelsch said temperatures may get close to that.

The normal high for this time of year in Boulder is about 50 degrees, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The record high for Dec. 2 is 71 degrees, set in 1926. The record low for Wednesday was minus-9 degrees, set in 1919.

Boulder has received 46 inches of snow so far this year, about twice the average snowfall for this point in the season, Kelsch said.

Contact Camera Staff Writer Erica Meltzer at 303-473-1355 or meltzere@dailycamera.com.