Many Coloradoans woke up May 1st to find heavy, wet snow had blanketed the Front Range. If the view from their window made them grumble, here's what it looked like from space.
The above images are courtesy of the . In what started out as a dry winter for Colorado, a few late season snow storms had done a . Many thought those late storms were over as the calendar rolled over into May. Mother Nature proved otherwise.
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As the writes:
A May Day snowstorm deposited snow from Colorado to Minnesota, likely toppling single-day snowfall records in multiple states, Capital Weather Gang reported. Some parts of Colorado and Wyoming received more than a foot of snow, including 16 inches (40 centimeters) of snow in Ft. Collins, and just over 12 inches (30 centimeters) of snow in Boulder. The snowfall total in Boulder was a record for the date and possibly the largest May snowfall for that city since 1978.
These satellite photos were captured by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite, you can download a or the at the .
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