The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for areas in Summit County above 9,000 feet in elevation.

The advisory is set to take effect at 9 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7, and last until 7 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 8, and applies to areas including Breckenridge, the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels on Interstate 70 and the mountains of Summit County.

Snow accumulations with totals from 4–8 inches are expected along with wind gusts as high as 60 mph, the advisory states. Travelers should plan for slippery road conditions and wind gusts producing blowing snow and poor visibility over mountain passes.

Current travel conditions can be viewed at CoTrip.org.

Summit County’s ski resorts are expected to reap the bounty of the weekend storm, with further accumulations expected to continue into next week. The weather blog OpenSnow.com projects that, over the next 5 days, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area will receive 9 inches of snow, Breckenridge Ski Resort will receive 5 inches, Keystone Resort will receive 7 inches, Copper Mountain Resort will receive 8 inches and Loveland Ski Area will receive 10 inches.

OpenSnow founding meteorologist Joel Gratz stated in a blog post that following the weekend storm, two storms next week should continue the snow accumulation, with the most snow possible around Friday, Feb. 14.

The expected weekend snowstorm will break a recent warm and dry spell in Summit County that, despite its lack of precipitation, did not cause the Blue River Basin, which includes Summit County, to slide out of its standing at 110% of the 30-year snowpack median.