Coloradans heading to the mountains this weekend to enjoy fresh powder should reconsider their plans, with an incoming winter storm likely making travel difficult or impossible on major highways, according to weather officials.

National Weather Service forecasters issued a winter storm warning for most of Colorado ’s northern and central mountains from 11 p.m. Friday to 11 p.m. Saturday and “strongly recommended” that people change their travel plans.

“Snow and blowing snow will reduce visibility to a quarter mile or less. Near blizzard conditions are possible, especially Saturday morning. Travel will be very difficult to impossible, with road closures possible,” forecasters wrote in the alert.

The heaviest snowfall through the mountain corridors is expected between midnight Friday

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