WINTER STORM: 04/17-04/18 - CO

[Dann Cianca]

We've had quite the snow storm here in some areas of the Denver Metro in Colorado. While the lower areas received mainly rain, places in the foothills topped 50"! I'm sitting at just about 8" at my house and have seen moderate rain, sleet, and thundersnow. It's been snowing and raining today as well.

Report (PICS/VIDEO) here:

http://blog.bigskyconvection.com/2009/04/denver-april-17th-snow-storm.html

 

[Verne Carlson]

I just got down out of Coal Creek Canyon from my house west of Boulder where we easily got 3 feet of heavy wet snow. Numerous powerlines are down and power has been out for most of last night and today. I had to snowblow the driveway five times to stay on top of it. Most people are stuck up there. I'm loading up on bottled water, food and fuel and then heading back up.

This one could rival the March 2003 upslope snow event. I haven't seen that much snow up there ever!

 

[Scott Hammel]

Yeah, a very weird evolution over the past few days. I've only gotten a few inches at my house near DU, but where I work over in Littleton had almost triple that. Nothing surprises me with Colorado weather in April though...hail to sleet to rain to snow back to hail all within a few minutes. It's going to be amazing the rest of the week though...hopefully this was our yearly "last hurah!" of winter.