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Subscribe to RSSSnow pounded Denver, Colo., Saturday, falling at more than an inch per hour at times. Nearly 500 flights out of Denver International Airport had to be canceled. The Weather Channel's Mike Seidel reports.
A winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of Colorado on Saturday, causing cancellation of hundreds of flights at Denver International Airport, and damaging hail fell in Texas as a huge storm system swept across the central U.S.
The National Weather Service reported snow accumulations up to 14 inches in Colorado. At 5 p.m. MT, it said the storm was pushing out of the state but warned that blizzard conditions would be possible with strong winds until nearly midnight.
As of 8 p.m. ET, nearly 500 flights in and out of Denver had been canceled, according to the flight tracking site flightaware.com.
Travel conditions “will be poor” on stretches of I-70, I-80 and I-25, weather.com reported.
Two children from Irving, Texas, were killed in a car crash on a snowy highway east of Gunnison, Colo., NBCDFW.com reported.
The bad weather caused postponement of a Major League Soccer game: The Colorado Rapids said their game against the Philadelphia Union was pushed to Sunday.
Blizzard conditions were possible in western Nebraska, southeast Wyoming, northwest Kansas and northeast Colorado, weather.com added.
The Weather Service said that moderate to heavy snow was likely for parts of the upper Midwest by Monday.
Severe weather swept across central Texas on Saturday night, the National Weather Service in Fort Worth said in its Twitter feed. The roof of a grocery store in Hamilton, southwest of Fort Worth, was blown into a parking lot as winds up to 60 mph blew through the region, the weather service said.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that a weather service meteorologist said baseball-size hail struck near Decatur, northwest of the Dallas area, and smaller hail struck elsewhere in the region.
More than 20 inches of snow fell on parts of New England and waves pounded the shoreline as the latest winter storm hit a region already battered several times since October. Weather Channel Meteorologist Eric Fisher reports.
The latest storm comes after New England was hit by up to two feet of snow.
That storm, which moved out to sea Friday afternoon, also brought high winds that battered Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, and Long Island, the Weather Channel reported.
Three seaside houses on Massachusetts' Plum Island, about 40 miles north of Boston, had to be demolished after waves undermined them, NBC Nightly News reported.
“We also have now four more that are severely structurally compromised and a total of 12 houses posted with no occupancy,” building inspector Sam Joslin told NBC Nightly News.
The owner of one of the houses lamented his loss.
“I’ve owned the house for a long, long time,” homeowner Stephen Bandoian told WHDH in a phone interview from Florida. “It was a great home, it was a great place, and now it’s gone.”
NBC News' Matt DeLuca and Gil Aegerter contributed to this report.
Brennan Linsley / AP
A man struggles to walk as blizzard conditions near the U.S. Air Force Academy, in southern Colorado on Saturday.
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This story was originally published on Sat Mar 9, 2013 7:00 AM EST
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Here we go again. Is it or isn't it.
GM Mary
NBC is just baiting their hook so some of those folks can rant and rave about "heck, 2 feet of snow ain't nothin' but a dustin' here in ________________,____"— (fill in the blanks)! LOL
I am so glad that areas of the country, which have been experiencing exceptional droughts, are finally getting some much needed precipitation.
was about a foot and a half = two feet of snow in my yard raining now with more moving in. looks like flood season is starting.
GM Mary, Jack
Good morning usual suspects,It is raining here on the Plains hope all is well for everyone.
Hummmmmmmmm ...........
Que Sera, Sera
... " prepare for the worst & hope for the best ....
I grew up on the Front Range in Colorado.
Through my high school years (graduated in the late '80's), it literally rained (at least briefly), almost every afternoon in the Spring and through most of the Summer. We still had an average of 300 days of sun/year.
We had a two-city-lot-sized yard, which was emerald green, from about 1976-1987.
Now, it is zero-scaped because it literally gave up the ghost in the 90's and 2000's (when water rationing started).
Something about the Climate has undeniably changed....
dunno NSAQ....have you considered that maybe your just bad luck............?
Well, Scooter, where I have lived the last 10 years has been flood prone ;-)
Not sure if you are joking or not, but, the tide is turning.
The world-over, sentient creatures have awaken from their Reichwing, "dogmatic slumbers," and are realizing that Global Warming is simply a scientific fact.
simply a scientific fact....
or
a simpletons scientific fact.....?
"the world may never know"
Love that line, But fear not Roland of the Eld line is riding ever forward on his quest to fix the tower.
gm to all the usual suspects
Agreed. Only a fool would not acknowledge that global warming is occurring. Now, if there were just consensus regarding how much of it is man made and how severely we should punish 1st world (but not 2nd world, 3rd world or Chinese) economies to ameliorate it.
GM DB,
Yeah, here in B'bados it is in the 90s everyday, the sun is singing and the birds are shining! Of course, those of us that have to work are envious of those that just enjoy that kind of weather! LOL
that's ok Bill let them 2nd and 3rd world's suffer, we will only clean up OUR part of the air...that will teach em.
&GM
First World Countries have been propped up on Second and Third World Markets/Labor for a minimum of 30, possibly 70 years.
Actually, since the inception of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, at Bretton Woods in 1944, First World Countries have extrapolated wealth, resources, and labor from much of the world, to sustain artificially and asymmetrically inflated lifestyles for the First World.
We can certainly impose symmetrical taxes to offset Third World energy, which is often more progressive than "ours."
Why does global warming always come up when I'm freezing. It was 43 degrees last nite. San Diego, here.
From the weather we've had the last 2 days.....wherever this storm goes...you're either gonna get buried or have hella-T storms.
Never Stop Asking Questions--While I absolutely agree global warming is happening, I sure don't think you can blame it all on '1st world' countries.
I live in MO, and farmers here (and throught the midwestern 'breadbasket states', for decades now, have been over farming our land, stripping the water from our rivers (and we DO have two of the bigger ones, and SEVERAL very large ones also) AND from the Oglala Aquefer, in order that our country can EXPORT grain to those selfsame 3rd world (and also 2nd world) countries who refuse to admit that they have too many PEOPLE.
Put it this way--If I sit in my car with the windows closed, but the engine off, at NIGHT (no sun) with the outside temps around 70, my breathing alone will heat that car up to where it is uncomfortable.
With the population of our world increasing EXPONENTIALLY, just the fact that all those people are EXHALING moisture laden air that is 98.6, is heating up the globe.
If people (here AND abroad) would quit breeding like rabbits, with NO clue as to how THEY personally, will EVER take care of those babies and provide them with enough FOOD, decent clothing, housing, education and medical care--WHO then, eo we blame for the STATE of our world?
NOT just us.
I, for one, have never been so guilt-ridden that I feel the need to reimburse (for example) the people of Nigeria because their leaders sell us oil. I have earned every penny I use to support my lifestyle, and I refuse to apologize because of how I live.
Speaking from a womans point of view. How fat does rain have to be before it's considered heavy.
Turn off the media and you will simply think things are normal, turn on the media and you will be scared out of all reasonable thought, its your decision. its been known to snow in the winter months, when spring gets here then we can start worrying about global warming, because that scares some people even though its been going on for thousands of years and there is nothing man can do to change that except scare you into giving them money to fix what they cant fix. the media is the problem not the solution. there is way to much hyped up drama in the world. its all an effort to generate rich mans welfare. will someone please buy Al Gore a Jet so he will shut up, boycott the news and ignore the weather report its never right anyways.
Sorry to all of you "Global Warming" nuts, but, what is happening now is called "weather"! It happens every year and changes often. Ten years ago, in Colorado, I saw six feet of snow fall in about 36 hours. I was not screaming about a new ice age and I do not see the logic from the crazed enviros who chant "global warming" or "carbon footprint" at every opportunity. All I see are a bunch of libs trying to "liberate" us from our cash! Why do you think that Al Gore made many millions from his little scam. BTW, don't start with your "settled science" crap because their is no such thing as "settled science"! It is an oxymoron like "jumbo shrimp", or "liberal logic"!
You know whats funny? The media has never once raved about the 11 feet of snow we got in March of 2003. NOT ONCE. Nope
WOW, it's snowing in the winter! Who'd have guessed THAT would ever happen????
Wow, 98% of climate scientists say man-made climate change is real. WTF do they knowm I'm some guy with DSL access and lots of free time to snark on the weekends so I think its pretty obvious who's right here....
Next week I'm gonna show some drug companies where they are going wrong with the whole "cure for cancer" thing because, of course, they're all idiots compared to me, some random guy on the internet.
This global warming is freezing me heine off!
They found giant camel bones on the north pole....I knew we were descendants from aliens! Why arnt they sending us their green technology!
Well, Al Gore has proven that global warming can only be caused by man. Now I know why the show "ancient aliens is so popular" We have so much to learn!
Ground control to major Tom....
" I guess while i was stabbing logic to death, I blacked out!" - Science
There is one universal law that can trump all other scientific laws..."Never bite the hand that feeds you"
Governed by the existence of human nature!
we used to have icebergs in the midwest. the sahara was once plush, sea fossils all over the place there. global warming has been going on for 10's of thousands of years. Mixed with cooling, mixed with warming and back again. we had record cold temps last year in alaska, canada and europe. ma nature is gonna do what she wants to do.
Ken (1.20), I'm betting you don't know that the warmer (relatively) the air the more it will snow. For example, given an equal moisture saturation it will snow more at 30 degrees than it will at 25. A higher average atmospheric temperature will cause it to snow more than average during winter. This doesn't mean EVERY winter, but over the long term.
Why don't you educate us as to how many millions it was that Al Gore made. You seem to have all the answers.
Denile isn't just a river in Egypt...
Run for your lives.....we are having winter during winter time....run everbody ...hide.....protect the women and children....Someone boil water and tear up the sheets for bandages!!!!!!
Oh the HUMANITY!!!!!
Now with that said, I do believe in global warming...just not the fear mongering of winter storms or weather people standing out in hurricane winds to tell me it is windy outside...!
Yous westerners never seem to get the mayhem out of these storms - snow, rain, ice but no mayhem. They spread a lot of that over eastern cities though.
Ya got that right cheetah, those poor people on the east coast get , hammered, plowed, slammed, punched, wave after wave, on and on, and those lucky few esp in places like SW-WA. get nothin but sunshine and lollipops....just taint fair i tell ya.
Well, Never Stop Asking Questions, the climate has been changing before man was slime and we had SUV's... First it was Global Warming, but that hasn't happen and now it is "Climate Change" which is always changing... Who can deny that the climate changes every day..... don't need no stinking climate models...
Yeah, R-738279, how about the famous "Hockey Stick" graph which ignored the entire middle ages? How about the fact that Europeans used to grow grapes in Iceland? How about the amount of particulates put out in a single volcanic eruption being more than from the entire history of mankind? (And we average about 4-5 major volcanic eruptions per year!) It is just another way to "liberate" us from our cash and the people who rabidly back it up are just "useful idiots" for the globalists who want to suck the U.S. dry!
Mayhem is in the head, I lived in Minnesota for a time in the 50's and again in the 70's it would get so cold if you dared to show a smile your teeth would crack! and that's no joke, you could hear it happen then there's the water freezing in mid pour we had a pump outside that could not be used in the winter because it would freeze coming out of the spigot, don't tell me running water wont freeze. glad I don't have to deal with that any longer I got tired of my mustache freezing and forming icicles under my nose. went hunting one time and poured some hot coffee out of a thermos and the wholething just froze, had to pee but figured that can wait. don't even attempt to ice fish without a shelter, that's why the east catches hell its because it came from the central states anything east of western Montana sucks. the planes are cold, windy and those great lakes don't improve the conditions at all. when you put your face into a 60 below windshield you will understand. and nothing works if your smart you will never shut your car off, if you are really smart you wont even leave the house. its time to hibernate, and have you noticed the native born always have birthdays in Sept, Oct, or November.
lol I remember my Dad telling me that too about the fall babies. Nothing to do but cuddle up under the covers!
D Buck........yep 20-30 below in Mn...and Mom would shove our butts outside to play. Skating rinks were packed with kids. We made snow forts, had snowball fights, threw snowballs at buses from the top of a high neighborhood hill where drivers would be too tired to catch ya after the climb up the hill. Streets covered with snow, grab onto the bumper and "hop cars" as they went by...skiing on the snow while holding onto the bumpers going down the street. Sliding and tobogganing down hills and streets.....ice skating down street with our skates on(dad used to sharpen skates 50cents so we would repair our dull blades ourselves). Ice fishing without shelters!...........After all that fun...yes it was fun and the norm....when we came in, our jeans and pants were so frozen you could stand them up til they stared to thaw out....It is called winter......it comes and goes...nowadays the streets are plowed quickly and the media is in a frenzy to report an accident before the other stations do.
WCCO reporter was standing on a busy corner reporting the icy road, gawkers watch the live news casters reporting and then crash into each other...they caused the two cars to crash into each other then into the dump truck while reporter iis calling the play by play of the accident as if they had nothing to do with it...now this is the commercial they run showing how quickly they cover the weather news....DOH!...Media just doesn't get it anymore!
We lived on a small lake in WI and the backyard had a good enough hill to slide on all the way down to the lake. We couldn't wait for my dad to test the ice and see if it was thick enough for us. Our parents would also get out the garden hose and ice down our sled path. Those round metal saucers would fly halfway out into the lake.
One time it snowed and blew so much that a huge snowdrift piled up between our house and the neighbor's fence and my sister and I tunneled into it. We had that fort for quite awhile before it melted. Nice and cozy for us and our barbies. Those were good days. But I'm here in NW WI now, and would really like to see spring!
I forgot about the jeans and the caked stiff mittens that you'd wear old socks under with a thumb hole cut out to keep your wrists from getting chapped. lol Miss those old Levi's too, they may have started out hard as a rock, but when they were broken in those babies were yours and no one else's. (sp?)
This is a major reason that New Englanders move west... The weather was bitter and cold in New England seems like Mother Nature is swinging back to cold in the Northeast and hot and dry in the south....
Of course another reason may have been that when they tried riding east the horses drowned.
Scooter, GM
" A way out west they got a name for rain and wind and fire..." Out east of New England you have King Neptune and Polaris!
Jack from Jax They also got the bread basket of the world, mineral riches, oil & gas, and made the robber barons rich... good thing we left...
PS. is Jax from Jax Beer????
Jack from Jax--nice 'Paint your wagon' quote! Of course, THAT 'way out west' was ALASKA!
Good one Scooter!
There won't be a panic until the storms hit NYC...where the major news programs are based - coincidence?
Too late i just couldn't wait for it to hit NYC ..im already wringing my hands and crying in my beer over the mere thought of the total chaos and inconvenience this storm may cause...oh worry...of fret...oh whoa is us....
convection fires?....ya mean a warm front?....wow the depths these people will go to sensationalise and devert is absolutely astounding.
I myself love a warm front. :) May it hold me in it's warm bosom.
GM Stonepipe - How's the head from earlier this morning post? LOL Glad ya had a good time.
Scooter
They are preparing for thunder, lightening and hail. Almost sounds like Moses in the 10 Commandments epic by Cecil B. DeMille. Wonder what other plagues will be encountered? Get out the popcorn and make it buttered, please.
Gee Jack, think can i play Moses in the remake? i knew the guy back when i was a spratling and we uncannily look alike.
(plus Heston's gone and i have most of the same fire arms)
(GM SP)
Scooter
I saw your picture - not sure if it was on a post office wall or not and something about so many buses missing in Iowa, especially after snowstorms - any idea?
But yeah, I saw your picture and you would probably fit him to a "T" as the older Moses. Who do you think should be the younger Moses without the beard in the Pharoh's House? Brad Pitt, George Clooney or Matt Damon? Or, ready for this - Justin Bieber!
Coming from Iowa, how are you about wandering around the desert for 40 years or so? Ya gotta play the part and maybe George Lucas can do the updated version as Director!
This is just a term that means that thunderstorms (convective storms) are expected to initiate along the cold front. It's not sensationalism, it's just the way meteorologists and storm chasers refer to convective initiation. Other similar phrases include "loaded gun", which refers to a situation where there is a tremendous amount of energy available in the atmosphere which is waiting to "fire". Supercells that produce large, violent tornadoes are often found on days where the profile of the atmosphere can be called a "loaded gun" in the morning before the storms.
Meaning there is a lot of available moisture resulting in high dew points. Cold fronts can push into this warmer, moister air and fire up the big ones.
Sigh...yet one more example that i must be getting old, i can remember back when this would have been called a spring storm.
Ya, don't feel sorry for those home owners who houses end up ruined. The lack of common sense for building so close to the sea is what you get.
I don't care if they have been there for a 100 years. They were stupid then to build where nature could easily get to the structure without protection.
Then when it happens, we are suppose to cry boo hoo for them and bail them out with tax money. Either don't build, or carry enough insurance to cover the loss, or don't bitch when mother nature does what she wants.
You heard him folks, lets all move to Steve's..........where its "safe"....fantasy land here we come !!
Scooter he sounds like he could be Sally Ann's brother. uugghh.
If you build on the beach, eventually your house is going to get washed away regardless of sea level rise. Rising seas just means it happens sooner rather than later. But this is also the same as "If you build near a fault-line, eventually you'll have an earthquake", "If you build in the plains eventually you'll get hit by a tornado", and "If you build next to a river eventually you'll get flooded". It sucks for you when it happens, but you chose to live there. Just try not to be too surprised when it does.
You go. I'll stay home.
Another massive winter storm. Again millions of people are being endangered by severe weather. These recent events dramatically demonstrate that the earth is profoundly threatened by a new weather phenomenon, "Global Cooling." If left unchecked the earth will turn into a frozen, lifeless ice cube like Mars. This calamity is being caused by the atmospheric changes brought on by all the rich left wingers. By overheating their large mansions, flying around in their personal jets and spewing toxic waste from their mouths, they block the sunlight from reaching earth. Fortunately, there is a solution. By imposing a 100% tax on left wingers we can save civilization and the earth. Al Gore, we're gonna get our money back
Doug J Miller
I thought both the Earth and Mars are round.
Jack--my ice maker MAKES round cubes!
My ice maker doesn't work. I'd settle for chips of ice.
My icemaker makes half moons!
Good News...if the storm starts at noon today and lasts until noon tomorrow, we only have to go through 23 hours of it. That hour tonight between 2 AM and 3AM is the one that does the most damage ya know.....yipeee we narrowly escape the carnage and wrath of mother nature once again.
See ya all tomorrow, (well at least those of us who survive these two intertwined tangential events ) have a great day all.
You got it Tramp. The time change will save them. Good thinkin.
one question ...with all the storms that some states have been dealing with ..i wonder where is the storm comming from ..good ol h.a.r.r.p or...god
in my opinion ..and in some cases i do want to say it's ha.r.r.p ..for some poltical gain but for this much storm that the east and midwest is gettting and now the ground is COLLASPING...i say IT'S GOD ...lol ......
enjoy :D
First of all - HARRP uses very low frequencies. These frequencies have a wavelength FAR to long to affect the weather. If HARRP used frequencies in the microwave region then I could possibly agree with you...but even then it would be a long shot.
Tinfoil hats block out harrp, as many of you know...
The roads are clear here where I am in CO. Snow is falling but it isn't sticking. This is just another example of the media exaggerating again.
Really? Try driving out here to my house.
We have just had two snow storms and are now experiencing rain. From this report it sounds as though we could be in for more treacherous weather - something we usually can expect in the spring. Overall I would say our winters have been milder with less snow than in the past. When the weather changes we have seen days on end with very cold temperatures. It seems like winter used to be from mid-November into February or early March with snow, off and on throughout. Now it seems we get several big, wet snowstorms and have much colder temperatures between. Springtime in the Midwest is always met with winds, rain, showers or more violent thunderstorms or tornadoes - also flooding from melting ice along our rivers.
Snowing heavily here in Denver at the moment, but the roads - even I-25 - are just wet. The nice weather earlier this week (it was 70 degrees on Thursday!) kept the pavement warm and the snow is melting as it falls - so far. Supposed to be in the 50's by Monday. March is - on average - Denver's snowiest month, so there's really nothing unusual about this storm.
just a spring storm hapens every spring don't it???
Yep.
Big Storm is probably from them messing with the Time ..
All I can think about living on sand in the northeast is all of the wonderful clams that live in the sand in the northeast.
Life does have its little recompenses.
Hope we get two feet from this.
Good lord, why?
You know, this stuff is old news...
Yes, this is typical Colorado weather. Usually pretty nice through November & December, colder than heck in January, February's a mixed bag (it was 65 in Colorado Springs Thursday), and March snowy. I'm 20 miles NE of Colorado Springs and we have snow, but the wind has been sustained at about 35mph, so hard to tell how much snow we're getting.. Horses are in the barn tonight.....
Hi America, minor storm at best, don't believe the hype. Almost all the snow melted when it hit the streets. Did pile up on grass land, great wet snow.
This storm is a dangerous one and everyone in it's path should get ready. It pounded AZ and CO. for hours. It's a long lasting storm. After down pours all night, and the next day until about 5 pm, it cleared up for about two hours then started again. At 1:30am we got a hail storm with pea sized hail, lightning and thunder, intense for about 25 minutes. It has been a funky atmosphere all day today. Overcast and gray. Being in Phoenix it's unusual for long sustained rain.
Time to move to Miami!!!
I will clarify, Denver metro no big deal.
News flash!!! It snows and rains in the winter.
Really? I never would've guessed.
OMG folks, it's only snow and rain. What's the big fuss about? It's everywhere at one point or another.