Tuesday night will bring a new round of snowy weather for parts of the U.S. after other parts of the West were left buried under several feet of snow over the weekend.
The latest batch of wintry weather is heading for the Pacific Northwest. In the past week, the nation’s first major snowstorm of the winter season left behind mounds of heavy, wet snow in portions of Colorado and New Mexico.
How much snow fell? Several ski areas in the mountains of the two states picked up as much as 3-4 feet of snow, as did portions of the eastern Plains of Colorado.
In fact, some counties in the Plains of Colorado were buried under between 30 to 42 inches of snow, averaging 3 feet overall, David Barjenbruch, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Boulder office, told the Denver Post . “This is one that will be remembered for a while,” he said.
Huge snowfall totals reported
The highest reported snowfall total was 54.9 inches at a location 7 miles northwest of San Isabel, Colorado (southwest of Pueblo), the National Weather Service said.