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According to the National Weather Service, the highest snow total for the weekend was 42 inches, which was measured at Buckhorn Mountain, west of Fort Collins in Larimer County.
Close behind was Pingree Park with 41 inches and Red Feather Lakes, 40 inches, also in Larimer County.
The only other areas of Colorado to measure that much snow are in the Aspen Springs area. The Horsetooth area measured 27 inches of snow, while in the cities of Fort Collins and Loveland, the totals ranged from one and a half to two feet.
Photo in the Horsetooth area, courtesy of Judea Frank.
Credit National Weather Service
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With less than a week until the beginning of spring (March 20), residents in the Florida Panhandle and south Alabama will get a preview of storms that are typical of the Vernal Equinox.
“This is a situation [of] the first real push of juicy, warm air from the Gulf of Mexico; the atmosphere is going to be quite unstable Wednesday night into early Thursday morning,” said Jeff Huffman, a meteorologist at the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network (FPREN) in Gainesville.
“There’s going to be numerous watches and warnings out and I just want to remind you, don’t’ focus on the area that’s got the greatest risk,” Huffman said. “Because I do believe the greatest risk, the most widespread of the storms, will occur to our north,” said Huffman. “But even here in the Pensacola area we’re going to be unstable enough through the night Wednesday night that we could have some rough weather here
Firefighters rescue puppy stranded in truck during Colorado snowstorm
By: KMGH Staff
and last updated 2021-03-16 11:57:36-04
ELIZABETH, Colo. â A snowstorm in Colorado left a father with tough choice to make over the weekend. He had to decide who would stay and who would have to hunker down after his truck was stuck in snowdrift. I was doing pretty good, and I have a pretty large truck, and all of sudden, I was mid-door deep and stuck, said Seth Rodenbaugh, an Elizabeth resident whose car got stuck less than a mile from home.
On Sunday, as Rodenbaugh traveled with his 5-year-old son and Great Pyrenees puppy, snowdrift accumulation meant the car would have to be abandoned.
Due to unsafe road conditions, Cheyenne police have been using armored vehicles and bomb squad trucks and getting help from snowmobile owners to respond to calls. Citizens who encounter an emergency situation should continue to call police and we will do all we can to assist, police posted on Facebook Monday evening.
City crews have been working around-the-clock to clear the roads after Winter Storm Xylia dumped more than 30 inches of snow on the capital city.
Due to the scale of the storm, Public Works Director Vicki Nemecek says snow removal operations in residential neighborhoods and the downtown may take several days to complete.