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Blizzard threatens to bury Colorado, Plains

POSTED: 5:20 p.m. EST, December 20, 2006

 

Story

Highlights

• NEW: Denver International Airport

closes at 4:45 p.m. ET

• Sections of I-70 and I-40 closed, as are schools

• Hundreds of airline flights canceled

• Parts of Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas under

blizzard warning

 

DENVER, Colorado

(AP) -- Heavy snow blew across Colorado on Wednesday.

The blizzard canceled hundreds of airline flights and shut down a major

highway, as the storm plowed onto the Plains after pummeling New

Mexico.

The National Weather Service posted blizzard warnings for most of

eastern Colorado and adjoining sections of Nebraska and Kansas.

Up to 5 inches of snow had fallen by the morning rush hour in the Denver

area. Two feet of snow was possible in the foothills just west of Denver, with

2 to 3 feet a possibility farther north. Up to 20 inches could accumulate on

the Plains of eastern Colorado. Wind up to 30 mph could pile the snow into high

drifts.

United Airlines, the busiest carrier at Denver International

Airport, canceled more than 630 flights for the rest of the day, and Frontier

Airlines planned to cancel up to 40 afternoon flights, representatives said.

" This is a step that we need to take because of what Mother Nature

is throwing at us, " said United spokesman Jeff Kovick.

Eastbound Interstate 70 was closed for 90 miles from Limon to the Kansas

line and police shut down about 60 miles of westbound I-70 from Colby, Kansas,

to Burlington, Colorado. Travelers stalled by the closures starting filling Kansas

motels during the morning, said Stan Whitley, a spokesman for the state

Department of Transportation.

Dozens of schools were closed in eastern Colorado and

northwest Kansas, along with many courthouses in eastern Colorado.

The lumbering storm dropped more than a foot of snow in the state's

southwestern mountains Tuesday, with 19 inches at the Wolf Creek ski area and

17 at Durango Mountain Resort.

" We've been waiting for a big storm to hit, so this

was the best early Christmas present, " Durango Mountain Resort spokeswoman

Loryn Kasten said.

The broad storm also spread rain

across parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska on Wednesday, with snow in western Kansas and Nebraska,

where police reported vehicles sliding off I-80 in the Nebraska Panhandle. Ice

accumulating on branches and power lines also caused power outages in the area.

 

The storm rolled into Colorado from New Mexico, where

roads around the state were still snowpacked and icy Wednesday. Numerous

schools opened late or remained closed.

Up to a foot of snow fell at higher elevations of northwest and

west-central New Mexico on Tuesday, and snow and sleet closed

sections of I-40 across eastern New Mexico and in the Texas Panhandle.

Albuquerque International airport was closed for several hours Tuesday

as snow covered runways.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/12/20/snowstorm.ap/index.html

 

Intense cold

and air problems keep going as predicted according with the US rectified chart.

 

US dasha: Ve/Sa/Ra/Sa/Ma

 

 

 

CO dasha: Ve/Ra/Sa/Ma/Ra

 

 

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