Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/01/2008 3:21:46 PM PDT by goldstategop
A heavy spring snowstorm moved across Colorado on May Day and was expected to dump up to 16 inches of snow in the high country.
Wintry weather was blamed for a rash of minor accidents that closed westbound Interstate 70 for about 90 minutes just west of Denver on Thursday.
"There's a lot of slide-offs, fender-bender types," State Patrol Master Trooper Ron Watkins said. "There's nothing like serious injuries or anything, but it caused the road to be closed."
Watkins said up to 40 cars were involved in minor accidents on U.S. 36 near Lyons, 30 miles northwest of Denver. No injuries have been reported there.
The storm dropped up to 5 inches in Douglas County and Boulder County received more than 3 inches.
Loveland ski area, one of about three Colorado resorts still open, reported 6 inches.
The National Weather Service said 8 to 16 inches of snow could fall in the northern mountains. Up to 11 inches was forecast for the central mountains.
"Don't be fooled by the date," forecasters said in a heavy snow warning.
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference officials canceled the opening day of their 2008 softball tournament in Golden.
In the mountains, snow prompted authorities to require chains on commercial vehicles on more than a half-dozen mountain passes.
Meanwhile, the National Weather Service issued a red flag warning for high fire danger in the southeast corner of the state. Baca County banned open fires because of dry, windy conditions.
Rain and snow is likely in the Denver area Thursday with chances continuing through the evening. Winds will be out of the north at 10 to 20 mph with highs in the upper 40s. Little or no snow accumulation is expected in the urban corridor.
The moisture will come to an end overnight with cloudy skies and lows around 30.
Friday will bring some partly sunny skies to Denver with a slight chance of early precipitation and highs in the low to mid 40s.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Been up and down that road many times but never in snow. US 36 is a mountain road and I can’t imagine trying to go up or down that to Estes.
Been up and down that road many times but never in snow. US 36 is a mountain road and I can’t imagine trying to go up or down that to Estes.
We had snow flurries here in central Vermont earlier this week, and a hard freeze the past couple of nights.
Snowed today in Salt Lake City.
We got about an inch of snow that built up on the grass in SW Denver metro, it has melted now. Temperature 45 degrees, it’s been a very cool spring. The good news about that is it will slow the runoff of snowmelt in the mountains. There is so much snow up there, people are worried about flooding.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The lefties will never admit that they were wrong. They’ll just move onto something else or come up with some cockamamie idea that because of global warming the earth is now cooling. It doesn’t have to make any sense. It will evolve or they’ll just go on to the next hysteria.
If the snow came just a four days later maybe the Viva Mexico demonstrators would stay home - not home in Mexico but their northern illegal home.
i went over red mountain pass in a blizzard years ago. it was frightening only when i returned in clear weather to see the 1000 foot drops and abscence of guardrails.
p.s. when i lived in colorado (durango from 1990-2001) it snowed twice on the 4th of july.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Snowing here in Colorado right now. We had a few inches earlier, but it melted. The snow is still falling, though.
http://www.ouraylovers.com/red-mountain-pass.htm
I thought the name sounded familiar - pretty country.
“p.s. when i lived in colorado (durango from 1990-2001) it snowed twice on the 4th of july.”
Very windy and a few snow flurries here in
Durango today.
That actually fits the reality. The main effect of warming would be in the higher latitudes and would amount to an extension of the summer. Last year the summer was a bust here in the higher latitude of Alaska. The growing season didn't happen. Snow was the usual the rest of the year.
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