Snow is still falling in Colorado on May 6, where a late-season storm dumped more than two feet of snow on some areas.
Early in the morning of May 5, the National Weather Service put much of the interstate corridor from the Wyoming border to near Colorado Springs, including Fort Collins and Denver, under a winter storm warning. Schools and universities were closed, hundreds of flights into or out of Denver were delayed or canceled and tens of thousands of customers in the state have lost power amid the storm.
The snow picked up in intensity with more than a foot accumulating near the entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park by the early afternoon on May 5, forecasters said. Some mountainous areas were struck by "thunder snow" as rain turned to snow across the urban corridor, including outside the weather service's outpost in Boulder.
By midnight local time, nearly six inches of snow had accumulated outside the Boulder office with the precipitation expected to intensify overnight across the Denver metro area. The weather service said the final round of heavy snow moved through the area just ahead of the morning rush hour on May 6, though light snow remained possible throughout the afternoon.
