Severe U.S. storm brings heavy snow, baseball-sized hail

Reuters via Drudge ^ | Sat Mar 23, 2013 7:23pm EDT | Mary Wisniewski-- CHICAGO

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(Reuters) - A major early spring storm brought heavy snow, severe thunderstorms and floods as it moved east across the United States on Saturday, closing highways, forcing flight cancellations and causing a pileup involving dozens of vehicles.

The weather system forced the cancellations of more than 100 flights in and out of Denver International Airport on Saturday and blowing and drifting snow closed several roads in Colorado, including Interstate 70 in both directions east of Denver to the Kansas state line.

 

"Travel on the eastern plains is strongly discouraged," said Mindy Crane, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Transportation. "It is snowing half an inch an hour with sustained winds of 25 miles an hour with gusts up to 40 miles an hour."

A chain-reaction crash involving some 50 vehicles and at least four tractor-trailers shut down Interstate 25 about 30 miles north of Denver for several hours on Saturday, the Colorado State Patrol said in a statement. A tanker involved in the accident burst into flames.

Several injured people were taken to the hospital but no fatalities were reported, police said.

Kyle Fredin, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said some counties in far eastern Colorado had seen a foot of snow by mid-afternoon.

Snowfall accumulations in the Denver metropolitan area could top 10 inches, with higher amounts in the foothills west of the city, he said.

The snow was expected to move east to Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio, over the next 24 hours, before moving into the mid-Atlantic states, Kines said.

[TurboZamboni]

Baseball sized!...see what sequester cuts do?

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Flash map at above link.

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whoops...lost the link:

THE WINTER THAT WON'T END...

[mountainlion]

Obama really screwed up in Israel again.

[gusopol3]

Would have been softball sized without the sequester ?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Wonder how a solar panel survives in a baseball size hail storm.

[Iron Munro]

[Mark17]

Baseball sized!...see what sequester cuts do?

Well, if it wasn't the sequester cuts, it must have been global warming. (Not)

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Lets try this:

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More from Drudge:

Another snow blast coming for Midwest, East...

20 Million in Path...

Watches/Warnings...

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Excellent!

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[trisham]

I’m sick of snow. We’re hearing forecasts of not more than a dusting in this part of Massachusetts, and I hope that doesn’t change. My sympathies to those south and west of us.

[Gay State Conservative]

For a second my eyes tricked me by registering “basketball-sized hail”.That would sure be a hoot.

[Gay State Conservative]

More news about “global warming”...parts of northwestern Europe,including Britain,are having the coldest,snowiest March in decades.

[TurboZamboni]

just put a DHS armored vehicle over each one.

[catnipman]

I live north of the City of Boulder and it went down to zero degrees Fahrenheit last night here. But I wasn’t surprised in the least. After all, for over a decade now, the global warmists’ models have been predicting that global warming would make it colder. At least I’m pretty sure they said that. Didn’t they?