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AP Photo/David Zalubowski
An overhead sign warns that Interstate 70 is closed to the east as a tractor trailer heads out of Aurora, Colo., as a late winter storm packing wet, heavy snow and high winds swept over the intermountain West on Saturday, March 9, 2013.
A powerful storm dumped snow on the Rocky Mountains on Sunday, after having forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights and the postponement of a Major League Soccer game.
The fierce Pacific storm was moving east across the Plains into the Midwest, and blizzard conditions were possible in parts of Nebraska and northwest Kansas, The Weather Channel reported.
Forecasters also said that parts of the region could expect wind gusts of up to 50-miles-an-hour and white out conditions.
Meteorologists said there could be accumulations of 3 to 6 inches in portions of Iowa, Minnesota, central Wisconsin and northern Michigan as well on Sunday.
Snow 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.
The late-winter blast has already dumped up to 10 inches of heavy, wet snow in the Denver metropolitan area, The Weather Channel reported.
More than 600 flights in and out of Denver International Airport were canceled on Saturday, according to the Associated Press.
"Many of the canceled flights are commuter flights that go to mountain towns," airport spokesman Heath Montgomery told Reuters, adding that the facility remained open.
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Looking ahead, passengers could expect delays of up to 30 minutes as crews de-iced departing aircraft, he said, according to Reuters.
The Colorado Rapids postponed their Major League Soccer game against the Philadelphia Union until Sunday, the team said on its website.
And as the storm moves farther east, rain is expected to move into western New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia on Monday, the Weather Channel reported.
Brennan Linsley / AP
A man walk struggles to walk as blizzard conditions set in at the U.S. Air Force Academy, in southern Colorado on Saturday.
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Nothing like a long lustrous winter basking in hearts..
Seems like a named storm eases the way for weather welfare.
I asked what heavey rain ment. Now I'am asking what heavy snow means. How fat are the snow flakes to consider them heavy. Are the real big ones considered fat flakes.
Perhaps Phil would like a re-do on seeing his shadow!
Or at least promises of such.
We got almost 7" of light, fluffy snow in the foothills--finally! It's melting nicely into the ground.
I think Al Gore eats baby seal
Sometimes, I wish I could live somewhere like that and get all snowed in for a week. No technology, no driving in or out. Just quiet beauty of nature, board games, and cappuccino's!!
Skied all day in Winter Park, CO, at Mary Jane with family and friends. The snow was great and we had a great day.
4" is hardly heavy snow.
FamaousAmous,
When that "no technology" includes no power, water or heat, it gets old real fast! A week is a long time to go without basic necessities even when you are prepared for it.
And it is absolutely gorgeous today. Ah....Springtime in the Rockies. LOVE IT!!!!
When are we going to start naming forest fires, floods and droughts? Who got to call it "Triton" anyway? I'll bet it wasn't the National Weather Service. Personally, I prefer "George".
Naming all storms? ....ok..Around here a couple feet of snow was melted by the rain over the last 23 or so hours
i believe i will name the mud-hole that use to be my yard....Gil.
What does the name of a storm have to do with your soggy yard?
The National Weather Service does not nor do they have plans to name winter storms. That is strictly a Weather Channel thing.
Rainstorm Gil caused it. so i am simply honoring its memory.
@Gil ---- Because if I could name the storm that has just made my yard soggy it wouldn't be Gil. I have mud everywhere. But I'am thankful for the moisture.
The National Weather Service actually issued a bulletin to it's regional Weather Forecast Offices at the beginning of winter directing them to NOT use the names that The Weather Channel was giving winter storms.
Maybe we should consider corporate sponsorship of storms. The sponsor would pay a fee to get distributed amongst those negatively effected. All news media would be obliged to use the corporate name when they reported on it.
Services would use the designated name so you could expect to see things like "This snowplow brought to you by Coca Cola". This could help save some money for the municipalities and you could even have things like "The Red Bull FEMA Team" on the scene helping out.
wow bet that upset ...dozens
Tens of people were really upset.
I just read in Egypt that a bunch of people were killed after a soccer game. Maybe it was for the best. GM Tramp.
GM Mary ...gotta love soccer.
Spring time in the Rockies..Blizzard on Sat..Close to 60 on Tuesday. A truly cool place to live.
Beats the same ol same ol...I simply cant imagine the absolute boredom from the same old beach....same beautiful weather everyday, umbrella drinks, bikinis, no such thing as carharts, snow-shovels, wind cutting you to the bone.. and all that...nope not me by god i love it here...snow.. floods ...tornado's...torrential downpours... the things that make life ...(or perhaps us)..."special".....
Yeah and gangs, traffic, smog and high crime rate and people wall to wall. Yeah I guess all of that can be excused for having that beautiful weather. Not me scooter boy..Oh and by the way girls like Lindsey Vonn are hanging out in Vail...:)
Tramp,
Reading your post, the first thought that came to mind was Carhart Bikinis. I think it's an idea with potential. Maybe not the most comfortable fabric for that use, but my visualization sure looks good.
We also have Southpark!
stupid people do stupid things, next it will be naming rain showers!
You don't already? what are ya a weirdo? i always do.... why just last night i had ...
a lLittle bit of mary all night long ....today i expect
a little Monica in my life .....and then....
a little bit of Erica by my side
a little bit of Rita is all I need
a little bit of Tina is what I see
a little bit of Sandra in the sun
a little bit of Jessica here I am....
ta da da da da da da...da da da..
ta da da da da da da...da da da
(GM all try to get that tune out of your head now,...i been trying ...dont work).
I suddenly have a craving for combo number 5!
In the winter they make it sound like the worst snow storms and weather ever, In the summer it is the worst drought ever. I wish they would make uo their minds.
USGS: Global Warming Drives Rockies Snowpack Loss Unrivaled in 800 Years, Threatens Western Water Supply
http://
thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/06/13/244161/usgs-global-warming-rockies-snowpack-loss-western-water-supply/?mobile=nc
Maybe that's because virtually the entire Rocky Mountain Range is still in Severe, Extreme, or Exceptional Drought, cit?
And I say 'still' because your article is from nearly 2 years ago - but things continue to get even worse.
Data from the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab show that, the December average, snow covered the most area on record in 2012, from data dating back to 1966. This was OVER 1+Million Sq kilometer higher than the average anomalies and has been INCREASING in coverage since the lowest recorded in 1980. During Jan 2013, the Northern Hemisphere snow coverage was @ the HIGHEST levels on record...
BTY -2010 was the third highest...
Currently the Arctic is in a negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation which allows for more cold Arctic air to intrude or mix with air at lower latitudes. These cold air outbreaks can result in low temperatures and increased storminess in mid latitudes. ie the Rockies and the Mississippi water basin, resulting in the current high levels of snow & later WATER into their depleted aquifers...
Through the month of Feb 2013, the Arctic gained 766,000 square kilometers of ice (296,000 square miles), which is 38% higher than the 1979 to 2000 average for the month...
The Arctic sea ice has now returned back into the AVERAGE ZONE of 2 deviations. Just like it did last year, resulting in one of the highest sea ice extents in March 2012...
The Antarctic sea ice was quite extensive throughout the austral summer period. Monthly average sea ice extent for February 2013 was 3.83 million square kilometers (1.48 million square miles) and minimum daily sea ice extent for the Antarctic region was 3.68 million square kilometers (1.42 million square miles) on February 20. Sea Ice extent was also well above average for the Ross Sea region relative to the entire 1979 to 2013 satellite record...
See reference - //nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
But you can believe the Media Headlines instead of the FACTS...
Soccer fans... OH NO.......hope they don't riot in the streets, you know how those "fans" get...
Imagine the horror of innocents being pelted by multi-armed individuals with free ammo just lying around waiting to be picked up by ANYONE. NO background checks, NO waiting periods, NO age limit, NO shortage of NO prepared anti-snowball-er swat team,..just pure unadulterated mayhem as white ball's are thrown at random, ..drive by balling, ..."stand-by" victims everywhere .."turf" battles, .."forts" hastily constructed without building permits,.. Gangs hurling at one another from opposing sides of the street with total disregard for the poor vehicular commuters inside..... oh the humanity...., oh the horrors,..oh the indignities suffered....good luck CO. im pullin for ya.
"Twas in the midst of winter i finally learned....
That there was within me an invincible summer".
I do not feel sorry for the people who lost their homes do to big storms that are built right on the coast, not at all. Boohoo, your over priced million dollar house is gone, where it never should have been built in the first place.
Yeah, those Colorado people that have their homes right on the coast in this snowstorm will really regret it.
krzybosguy What coast of Colorado are you talking about? Is it the Kansas coast or the Nebraska coast or the New Mexico coast. The Colorado folks better watch out for the illegal New Mexicans swimming across that New Mexican coast.
Let me guess....Harvard right?
Hi and GM Scooter
I was thinking more like Berkley....based on Krz comment of
GM Jack,
Cant be, if it were Berkley he would be a lib and hence be crying about those poor people.( And of course screming "ban it")
Perhaps, Scooter
However, with that thought, he could be OSW? (Occupy Some Where?) rather than OWS.
OSW ....?
Outstanding Idea Jack i would recommend about 750 miles west of there. looks like a great spot for it.
Guys he a disappointed republican Rmoney voter because he's not sorry that people have lost their homes. Why? Because the people who lost homes may need help. You know like help from the government. You all know anyone wants the free stuff. By the way where do you go for the free stuff? Every time I go for the free stuff I'm told there is no free stuff. I'm always asked where did you hear there is free stuff? I just say Rmoney and the other republicans say there is free stuff and I want my free stuff. Remember it was Rmoney said he lost because every who voted against him got free stuff.
Not all big storms are built right on the coast.
My weather station read 50.3-50.8 mph winds for 4.5 hours and gusts to 61.4. So, tv sucking on Saturday, turned to the weather channel and NOTHING. Guess, if you're not on the wimp coast or Obamaville, they don't report. Still blowing at 35 this morning but the drifts are beautiful.
Native. Firstly, heavy snow is just that. It's snow with more water content than usual and therefore heavier. Secondly, just because we have one snow storm doesn't mean global warming isn't real.
"Booty-Pop " snow? ....If so at what point does that "heavy snow" or the snow "retaining more water"....become obese or in laymans terms a "fatass" ...snowflake ?
Secondly, just because we have one snow storm doesn't mean global warming is real.
Snow in the Rockies......Huh who would of ever thunk it????? Next it will be hot on the sun!!
Fatass snow now that is funny, I don't care who you are.
John.....There is difference between heavy snow and snowing heavy. If someone says it's snowing heavy out there, it just means there is a lot of snow coming down. Now, if they say thee snow is heavy then that is water retaining snow and it is heavy. Just because it is "snowing heavy" does not make the snow heavy
Heavy wet snow blows.
No mention of the mountains here. Denver is 20 miles out on the plains. I wonder what the ski areas actually got.
Somebody said Timberline got 22", but that's in the Cascades, not the Rockies.
Sorry folks, I have no sympathy for those dumb homeowners who build on the shoreline , who get washed away, then rebuild there again. I also have much disgust for those freeloading , freespending political hacks who spend everyones hard earned tax dollars to replinish the shorelines which nature will just come back and wash away again! Its time to throw those idiots out of office and bring a lawsuit to get our wasted money back!!!
This so called "snow storm" amounted to a lot of wind and very LITTLE snow.
we got about 12" in flagstaff az. anything less than that i just call a az. s**t blizzard.
good they need the water
Their was a television commercial many years ago that said---" It is not nice to fool with Mother Nature". I think that fits well right now. She will do whatever she wants to do, and their is nothing we can do about it.
Dam-it don't tell me what it is doing out there, no one cares. All I want to friggin know if this is coming through my state Indiana.
Un, just to inform the mods...it quit snowing in Denver about 24 hours ago and a lot of the "blanket" has melted.
I live in Pueblo, CO, send some of that snow down here to Pueblo where we really need it. We never got a flake out of this storm damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
I asked Santa for some snow for Miami,Fla. and I am still waiting.
colorado high,smokem if you gotem.this state is the worst state in the union next to washington.child molesters and drug addicts,come one,come all.this state keeps you guessing whats next,child porn.
Heat wave Harry is going to sweep through the desert southwest this week!!!
May there be NO loss of lives in this snowstorm. May there be NO loss to houses and infrastructure in this snowstorm. Its better to be indoors and stock up all the essentials to face the winter and the snowstorm. GOD Bless the Americans. GOD BLESS THE USA.
Kevin Valentine Moraes
Mira Road (Thane)