Summer Slips Away on 6-Inch Snowfall in Northern Rockies
Autumn arrived with a shiver and a coat of snow in the northern Rockies and Plains today as a fast-moving storm skated southward from Canada, while the East Coast braced for a tropical storm, a weather system fueled by heat.
On the first full day of fall, Colorado’s higher mountains made the transition from summer with a new accumulation of six inches of snow.
Colorado’s Trail Ridge Road, the highest continuous paved road in North America, was closed during the weekend by four-foot snowdrifts. “It’s still snowing and blowing up there,” a Rocky Mountain National Park spokeswoman said.
Two inches of snow blanketed Great Falls, Mont., overnight, and a one-inch layer was reported at Bozeman and Lewistown, Mont.
Scottsbluff, Neb., chilled to a low of just 30 degrees as the cold air bulled its way southward, tied its record low for the date, set in 1894.
Tourists at West Yellowstone, Mont., bundled up as thermometers dipped to a low of 17 degrees, and frost warnings were posted for northwestern Kansas and northern and western South Dakota.
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