A wintry storm is packing a wallop for the western U.S. from Oct. 17-20.
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00:00We're kind of between rounds of this in Seattle, but the two big storms here in the West.
00:04Weekend western wallop because a couple areas are going to see, yes, a wallop of weather because
00:09the first one we're going to track, Jeff, is going to be right across the four corners,
00:12this area of low pressure. That's going to kick off a chance of showers,
00:16some storms, and yes, even some snowfall in the higher elevations.
00:19And this is bringing that chill down that we've been waiting for for so long in Phoenix.
00:23Some of the high elevations in southwestern Colorado into the San Juan Mountains could see
00:27feet of snow above 9,000 feet, but snow levels overall probably around 6,500 feet there.
00:34Lots of impressive snowfall totals will be ongoing. And then as you look across the
00:37northwest, here's that other part of the wallop. We're going to see some
00:40heavy rain totals here across some high rain totals across Pacific Northwest.
00:45Yeah, this next storm is going to bring higher snow levels as well. In other words,
00:49the elevation at which if you travel up from the valley floor, you have to travel higher
00:52up into the balance to get from rain to snow. It's going to be a warmer storm,
00:56but a really, really wet one here with some huge rain amounts on the west-facing slopes
01:00of the mountains here. We'll be watching this very carefully here as we head into the weekend.