DayWeather Regional Travel Impact Forecast 4-30-26

0:00Hello, everyone. It is the final day of April, 2026. Time for your day, whether regional travel impact forecast. We are your local and expert source of road weather impact forecasting for commercial vehicle operators and the traveling public. I'd date weather meteorologist on Watzel. Well, as we head into early May, the national map is showing several regions of high pressure developing over much of the northern part of the country, as well as the west coast, while all the weather activity is concentrated over the southern plains, as well as the higher elevations of the western four corners region precipitation that will certainly be welcome. In the overview, that scattered rain and higher elevation snow will affect central Colorado to northern to Mexico through at least midday Friday before eventually tapering a scattered showers, light showers through Friday night elsewhere, training drier starting tonight after some leftover showers, especially over sections of northern Colorado and southern

1:02Wyoming. That high pressure mentioned will bring mainly dry conditions for a large part of the weekend. That's not to say that some leftover showers will be possible in far southern areas Saturday afternoon. Then as that high pressure begins to taper off and fizzle out, we are going to see a split trough pattern developed and bring some precipitation back to the region into next week, Monday and Tuesday with near seasonal to slightly above normal temperatures. The trends are suggesting that will warm up over the weekend, kind of cool off again, Monday and Tuesday, then flip, flop back and forth next Wednesday through Friday. So for I 80 tonight in Nebraska, we are going to be training favorable tonight through Friday and Saturday while light rain showers will affect the plains and a light rain snow mix over the higher elevations from Cheyenne to Rollins. That will continue to produce some scattered slick spots scattered wet to slick spots after some afternoon showers will occur west of Rollins towards Rock Springs and the Utah line. Then going to be training

2:05favorable Friday and much of Saturday, Interstate 25 and Interstate 90, a whole lot of nothing. Meanwhile, I 25 South and a Colorado, still going to get those rain showers in I 70 much of the same story where are still focused on areas south of Denver and north of Colorado Springs, that higher elevation area near Monument could get a combination of rain, then snow tonight, producing slushy and slick areas with about one to three inches of snow accumulation into Friday morning. This slick slushy combination will linger into the morning Friday, then additional rain showers will keep roads wet through Friday night elsewhere further southward towards New Mexico. Good to get those rain showers to keep roads wet and some of the higher elevations crossing into New Mexico towards Santa Fe will get rain and snow showers along I 25, primarily keeping roads wet, but do watch out for a few slushy spots. Then rain is the word into Friday and Friday night keeping roads wet into the start of the weekend.

3:09An additional light on course showers are possible and around a Santa Fe towards Albuquerque Saturday afternoon, otherwise conditions favorable and trending favorable throughout I 25 and I 70 into the start of the weekend. Don't forget you can always contact your state DOT for current road conditions, restrictions and closures. Thanks for watching everyone. Have yourself a wonderful day.