Another round of winter weather will sweep across Colorado’s Front Range and Eastern Plains on Friday, with forecasters expecting treacherous road conditions and nearly 3 feet of snow in some areas. Metro Denver and the southern foothills will see 7 to 14 inches of snow starting Friday morning and continuing into Saturday,

Residents across New Mexico and Colorado hunkered down in biting wintry conditions Thursday that made roads impassable, as forecasters predicted there could be historic amounts of snow in the region.

Several feet of snow were expected to fall in parts of New Mexico and Colorado over the next three days in what meteorologists said could be the worst blizzard to hit the region in decades, as the authorities warned of dangerous road conditions and power outages.

New Mexico's governor has declared an emergency after a powerful winter storm has left tens of thousands of people without power.

A winter storm knocked out power to tens of thousands of New Mexicans, and some schools and government offices closed Thursday as more than 2 feet of snow fell in some parts of the state. Nearly 36,000 households were without electricity in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque areas,