By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist
November 3,2013; 4:05PM,EST
A new snowmaker is in the works for this week and is set to track from Colorado and Wyoming to the Upper Midwest.
Monday night through Wednesday morning, the snow will spread northeastward from western and northeastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming to the vicinity of western Lake Superior.
Cities in this path include: Cheyenne, Wyo., Denver, Colo., Valentine, Neb., Sioux Falls, S.D., St. Cloud, Duluth and Minneapolis, Minn.
Prior to Monday night, a bit of the snow that fell in Salt Lake City Sunday morning will streak from southern Wyoming to south-central South Dakota Sunday night.
The snow on Tuesday should also edge northward to the Black Hills and Rapid City, S.D., where the early October blizzard devastated the region's cattle herd and dropped up to four feet of snow.
The good news is that the upcoming snow event will dramatically pale in comparison to that blizzard.
An inch or two of accumulation is generally expected along the snow's path Monday night through Wednesday morning. Denver will be on the lower end of that range with a coating to an inch in the forecast.
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However, amounts will top two inches in the northern Colorado mountains and the Black Hills.
There will also be a narrow zone of 2 to 4 inches of snow from north-central Nebraska to far western Michigan. The zone currently includes Sioux Falls and Minneapolis, but a slight shift in the storm's track would lead to the zone narrowly missing these cities.
Since persistent cold has been lacking across the region recently, the heaviest snow totals will occur on grassy and elevated surfaces.
That is not to say that those planning to travel on Interstates 25, 29, 35, 76, 80, 90 and 94 should let their guard down. There can still be some accumulation on roads and slick travel, especially where the snow falls during the night and where it comes down heavily during the day.
Airline travelers should also prepare for possible flight delays.
South of the snow, rain will spread across the rest of the Plains, western Gulf Coast, lower Mississippi Valley and Midwest Tuesday and Wednesday. Some of the rain will be heavy, but a repeat of the widespread damaging winds across the Midwest is not expected.
The storm will be rainmaker across the East late in the week. However, AccuWeather.com meteorologists concerned for strong wind gusts to accompany the rain across the St. Lawrence Valley and New England.
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