11/16/15 – Winter Weather Advisory Issued

National Weather Service Pueblo has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for our location from 5:00pm today through 11:00am on Tuesday.

There are many more winter weather highlights issued for areas adjacent to our Colorado Springs and campus communities, as demonstrated in the image below.  If you have travel plans this evening, or on Tuesday, please stay up to date with the latest forecast information at www.weather.gov/pub

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Additional information from the Winter Weather Advisory for our UCCS campus:

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON
TO 11 AM MST TUESDAY...

* LOCATION...SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY...INCLUDING COLORADO
  SPRINGS.

* CAUSE AND TIMING...A POTENT PACIFIC STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE
  REGION LATER TODAY THROUGH TOMORROW MORNING. THE SNOW WILL
  BEGIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND LAST INTO TOMORROW MORNING. THE
  SNOW COULD BE HEAVY AT TIMES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
  EVENING.

* SNOW ACCUMULATION...3 TO 6 INCHES.

* WIND...BECOMING NORTH 25 TO 35 MPH. GUSTS TO 55 MPH WILL BE
  POSSIBLE BY THIS EVENING AND INTO OVERNIGHT.

* IMPACT...HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW WILL CAUSE POOR
  VISIBILITIES AND DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO TRAVEL IN THE ADVISORY AREA DURING THE
TIME OF THE ADVISORY...LISTEN TO THE LATEST WEATHER FORECAST AND
CONSIDER TRAVELING AT ANOTHER TIME OR BY ANOTHER ROUTE.