Affected areas include the Elk and West Elk Mountains, Ruby Range, Grand Mesa, San Juan Mountains, Uncompahgre Plateau, La Garita mountains and Sangre de Cristo Range.
Also Tuesday, the Colorado Department of Transportation announced that it will close U.S. Highway at Wolf Creek Pass at 6:30 a.m. Thursday to conduct avalanche control operations.
Drivers will experience delays of up to two hours as crews trigger snow slides and then clear the roadway. CDOT hopes to reopen the pass by 8:30 a.m.
The risk of avalanches is high, the avalanche center said, because the recent winter storms dropped heavy snow fall onto a weak snowpack.
Natural and human-caused avalanches are likely on slopes steeper than 30 degrees.
Backcountry travel is not recommended. Backcountry travelers should stay off and underneath slopes steeper than 30 degrees.
There’s a slight chance for snow in Montezuma County between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. Tuesday night. The high temperature on Tuesday is expected to be near 41 degrees; and the overnight low, near 29.