Over a foot of snow is likely in the mountains of Wyoming and northern Colorado.( FORECAST: Cheyenne, Wyoming | Denver, Colorado) The snow should taper off in most areas during the evening hours.Wet snow, possibly heavy in spots, continues in southern and eastern Wyoming and Colorado.( FORECAST: Cheyenne, Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming) Precipitation along Colorado's Front Range corridor should remain rain during the day, but is expected to change to wet snow overnight Thursday night.Snow will taper off in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Nevada.
Some wet snow is also possible in some lower elevations of Wyoming and northern Colorado.Heavy snow is expected in the higher elevations of Wyoming and high country of northern Colorado.While some low-elevation locations will remain too warm for accumulating snow – it is mid-May, after all – other high-mountain valleys and plateaus, and parts of the Interstate 25 corridor, including Denver and Cheyenne, Wyoming, will see accumulations. Colorado: 15 inches in Nederland 11.5 inches near Breckenridge.Wyoming: 17.0 inches at Teton Pass (8,200 feet) 4-5 inches in Rawlins.Utah: 7.2 inches at Alta 5.0 inches near Smithfield 0.3 inches in downtown Salt Lake City.Montana: 31 inches near Nye 6 inches in Bozeman 4.5 inches in east Missoula.Idaho: 11.0 inches near Pierce 9.0 inches near the Red River Hot Springs.Here are a few selected snowfall totals through Thursday morning, local time. The top snow total so far from this storm is 31 inches near Nye, Montana, which is located in a mountainous area in the south-central portion of the state.Īn estimated 9 inches of snow in Bear Canyon near Bozeman, Montana, snapped numerous tree limbs and triggered power outages late Wednesday night, according to the National Weather Service. Heavy snow was reported at the summit of Colorado's Berthoud Pass Thursday morning, with lightning visible in the distance.įor now, a chilly rain is the most dominant precipitation type along the Front Range of Colorado, but some wet snow flakes have been mixing in, already, at times, in the Denver metro area. 287 south of Laramie has also been shut down to the Wyoming/Colorado border. A stretch of Interstate 80 has been closed in Wyoming between Laramie and Cheyenne, according to the Wyoming DOT. Snow levels are falling, with snow reported at Rawlins, Wyoming (6814 feet), Laramie, Wyoming (7,284 feet), Cheyenne, Wyoming (6,116 feet) and Boulder, Colorado (5,289 feet). The majority of snow is now falling over parts of Wyoming and the high country of Colorado, with wrap-around snow still occurring as far west as the mountains of northeast Nevada. Winter storm watches continue in effect for most of the Front Range Urban Corridor of northern Colorado, including the Denver metro area, Boulder and Ft. These warnings include the cities of Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming. Winter storm warnings and advisories are in effect throughout Wyoming and the mountains of Colorado. An unusually strong, damaging late-spring snowstorm is kicking into high gear in the Rockies, bringing feet of snow to some higher elevations, and likely bringing the latest-in-season snow event to Denver in over 40 years.
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