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DENVER — Temperatures plunged late Thursday night as an Arctic air mass descended on Colorado after a day that saw high temperatures in the 50s.

Cold drizzle and light snow started falling in metro Denver before 9 p.m.

Ice formed on the roads under the small dusting of snow that fell early Friday morning.