Winter Storm Warning For April 17th

Ahem:

A slow moving storm system is blitzing southeast Wyoming and the Front Range of Colorado with heavy snow. Already, Buckhorn Mountain in the Front Range near the Wyoming border has picked up over 25 inches. Snow rates have been as high as 4 inches per hour.

Interstate 25 has been closed from north of Ft. Collins, Colo., to the Wyoming boarder due to snow and ice. U.S. Highway 287 has been closed from northwest of Ft. Collins to Laramie, Wyo.

Abundant moisture flowing into the area, upslope flow, and cold, unstable air aloft will support increasingly heavy snow right into Saturday over Colorado's Front Range, including the Denver metro. The addition of thundersnow will continue the high snowfall rates, resulting in foot-plus accumulations.

Snow totals by Saturday will range from 2 to 4 feet across the higher mountains from southeastern Wyoming through much of east-central Colorado; this includes the foothills just west and southwest of the Denver metro.

The Denver metro itself will have snow totals between 5 and 10 inches, to close to 2 feet in the western suburbs heading up into the Front Range. Moving toward the Nebraska and Kansas lines, the high Plains of eastern Colorado will mainly deal with a cold rain.

Travel will likely continue to be impacted along parts of Interstate 25, with deteriorating conditions expected along the Interstate 80 and 70 corridors through this region.

Yes, indeed, global warming is a force to be reckoned with.

There's my two cents.