Snow totals from yesterday’s moody spring storm range from a few inches to more than three feet.
Here in Summit County the snowstake at Arapahoe Basin showed 6 inches in 24 hours. That was the deepest in Summit, where snow occasionally fell on Main Street but never stuck around.
Further north, snow sites in Estes Park and Nederland ranged from 5.5 to 6 inches. Forecasters predicted 12-14 inches for Rocky Mountain National Park, and the forecast delivered. A Facebook post from the park claims more than a foot at higher elevations.
Overperforming by feet of snow was the Medicine Bow range of south-central Wyoming, where totals ranged from 16 to 39 inches.
A weather station in Centennial, Wyoming, in the middle of the range, read 39 inches in 24 hours on May 18. That is equal to more than 3 inches of rain and easily more snow than the range saw for weeks at a time this winter.
A Wyoming meteorologist tells the Cowboy State Daily, “Despite all the travel problems and power outages associated with this spring snowstorm, some of the areas most affected by the non-winter of 2026 is getting the precipitation it so needs.”
Just north of the Medicine Bows, traffic on I-80 yesterday was deadlocked for whiteouts and gusty winds that threatened to topple semi-trailers. Today the interstate there is open again.
The snowstake at Snowy Range Ski Area showed nearly 21 inches yesterday, but it will not last. Temperatures were back into the 50s today with patchy sun. Snowy Range closed for the season more than six weeks ago on March 30.
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