Snows Powder Colorado Slopes; Nebraska Is Iced
Heavy snow fell in the Colorado Rockies and freezing rain hit Nebraska as winter-like weather roared down out of the Western mountains Friday.
Colorado residents woke up to find 16 inches of snow at Wolf Creek Pass, 14 inches at Steamboat Springs and 10 inches at Silverton. The storm also dumped up to five inches of snow in Cheyenne, Wyo., and in western Nebraska’s Kimball County.
An advisory for more heavy snow was issued Friday for Colorado’s northern mountains, officials at the National Weather Service said.
The weather service also posted snow advisories through Friday night for higher elevations across the West.
Storms also spread snow and freezing rain over the Nebraska panhandle and southern South Dakota, and warnings of strong, gusty winds were posted over southwest Kansas and northern Oklahoma.
Rain also dampened various parts of the Midwest, with three-quarters of an inch recorded at Kansas City, Mo., and 1.29 inches at Scottsbluff, Neb., during a six-hour period Friday. Lighter rainfall was reported as far east as the Tennessee Valley.
It was 2 degrees above zero Friday morning at Ely, Minn., the coldest temperature reported in the Lower 48 states.
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