Patients across the country including some in Colorado are learning their non-emergency surgeries have been canceled amid a national IV shortage.

The high country will be getting a taste of winter this weekend, potentially seeing as much as 2 feet of snow in some of our southern mountains.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its winter outlook, which predicts a drier winter in Colorado.

While it won’t be a winter wonderland in the metro area this week, Colorado’s mountains could get up to three feet of snow by Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. Southwestern Colorado’s San Juan Mountains could see between 1 and 3 feet of snow between Friday and Sunday,