Major cooldown and snow chances on the way for the weekend

Saturday and Sunday's First Alert Weather Days bring mountain snow and rain to the Denver metro area. It's quite the change in our weather pattern in Colorado, as a cold front will push in Saturday bringing snow to the mountains and rain to the Denver metro area and Colorado's Front Range. Temperatures will drop to the upper 60s on Saturday for the urban corridor. It will be breezy on Saturday with wind gusts up to 25 mph possible. On Sunday, daytime highs will be below normal only reaching into the mid-50s as fall officially begins at 6:43 a.m. Sunday morning.

The mountains will pile up some accumulating snow Saturday night into Sunday above 8,500 feet in elevation. There is a Winter Weather Advisory in effect 6 pm Saturday through noon on Sunday for Rocky Mountain National Park and the Medicine Bow Range, and The Mountains of Summit County, the Mosquito Range, and the Indian Peaks where 4-9 inches of snow is expected.  By Sunday afternoon we are expecting drier conditions, but it will stay cool. Behind this system, the sun returns and temperatures reach back into the 70s to start the week.