(CBS4) – A major Colorado snowstorm has dropped huge amounts of snow in the Denver metro area and in northern Colorado, and it’s not done. Plan on another 5 to 8 inches in the Denver metro area Tuesday and another 3 to 6 inches in the Ft Collins area where there is already more than a foot on the ground.
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Denver International Airport reported 7 inches of snow as of 5 a.m. and there were hundreds of canceled flights on this busy Thanksgiving week travel day. So, right now this is 5th snowiest storm in the last 3 years. That ranking should go up.
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The highest snow totals reported so far are as follows:
Coal Creek Canyon, 20 inches
Fort Collins, 14
Boulder, 14
Loveland, 12.5
Elizabeth, 12
Louisville, 11.2
❄️FORT COLLINS SNOW❄️
We’re live in Fort Collins where we’ve seen 11 inches of snow in less than 12 hours!!!!
Downtown is a ghost town, aside from hard workers clearing snow.
Some areas saw more than 2 inches of snow falling every hour overnight!!@CBSDenver #cowx #4wx pic.twitter.com/I5SYBXzQEX
— Dillon Thomas (@DillonMThomas) November 26, 2019
Some parts of Fort Collins and Boulder will likely approach 20 inches before this storm departs later on Tuesday.
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Colorado ski resorts are seeing lesser accumulation from this storm, but there’s still plenty of powder at your favorite ski area:
Monarch, 9 inches
Steamboat, 8
Beaver Creek, 5
Snowmass, 5
Aspen Mountain, 4
Breckenridge, 3
CBS4’s Mekialaya White reports in Denver on Tuesday morning in the snow. (credit: CBS)
A big chunk of Colorado’s Eastern Plains (plus the Castle Rock area) is now under a Blizzard Warning through 5 p.m. Interstate 76 and Interstate 70 are closed east of the metro area. A Winter Storm Warning continues for the Denver area through 5 p.m. Tuesday. The Colorado National Guard has also been called in to help with the response to the storm.
A rock slide near Idaho Springs closed Interstate 70 westbound after 7 a.m.
You probably could have guessed it, but the few school districts that were scheduled to have classes on Tuesday have pretty much all canceled school.
Holiday travel for the most part will have to wait until Wednesday as our roads are going to be very icy and snow packed. Tuesday will not be a day to be out and about. Stay home if you can!
The snow will quickly clear by Tuesday evening. In the wake of the storm, we will be left behind with bitter cold temperatures. We’ll drop to the single digits on Tuesday night. We will be cold but dry on Thanksgiving. And then we’re watching another storm on Friday that is heading our way.
Ashton Altieri
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