Hope you have your weather bingo cards
ready, because tonight's Colorao
seen a little bit of everything.
Some spots could wake up tomorrow with two
feet of snow or just some very wet roads.
Yeah, it's all over the place.
But this, of course is Colorado and April,
so a simple snowstorm isn't eno.
Our first tornado of the year touched
down near DIA this afternoon.
Fortunately, we haven't heard oy
damage from the land spout. Endeavor.
We're getting plenty of rain to,
with the occasional clap of
Thunder and smattering of hail.
It's wet enough to make some
high school sports and Jeffco
call off their games tonight.
Our reporters are watching the
roads where the totals could be
the most intense and all of the
problems at the airport as well.
But first, we're going to
get to Danielle Grant.
Danielle, it has been a
crazy afternoon and night. It
certainly has been a wild one, you guys.
I'm here in the backyard.
Mother Nature just turning on the faucet.
It is coming down really good.
Plenty of beneficial rain pushi.
Here across the Denver metro
area and more heavy snow up in
the mountains here across town,
it has been all rain all aftern.
This is our vantage point right
in front of the 9 News studios.
The winds are kicking up from time to
time and certainly the roads are soggy.
We have a couple puddles here
in the backyard.
The storm system still anchored
across southwestern Colorado.
It'll dig into the southeastern
corner of the state.
That's when we'll really capitae
on that upslope flow late tonigt
into early tomorrow morning as
we zoom in into the high country
areas right there around I-70 h.
Heavy snowfall coming through
toward Glenwood Springs, Eagle.
The Vail Valley,
across the Front Range mountain,
the southern Front Range foothills too.
And for now it has been just rain here
in the city of the temperatures still
hovering above the freezing mar.
Hence the reason I anticipate us
sticking with rain throughout the night.
You'll notice into Douglas and Elbert
County that snowfall starting to
inch a little closer toward the city,
but I do anticipate most of the
snow staying further to the Sou,
around 6000 feet.
Snowfall that's going to be up in the
mountains, but the rain has bee.
Tremendous,
especially out there toward Weld County.
We're looking at one to two inc.
Some flooding concerns out there too,
even into the southeastern cornr
of Denver and Aurora,
looking at one to two inches aly
and more on the way as we Fast
forward throughout the future.
Cast here we are within the next
couple of hours, about 11:00,
o'clock still raining across the
I-25 corridor with that snow ing
closer toward the southern subu.
That's where it stays, however,
that rain Snow line just hugging parts
of Douglas and Ravahoe counties.
This is 6:00 AM.
Tomorrow morning,
if your drive takes you to the South,
you'll wake up to some rain and
then quickly it transitions to
snow toward Castle Rock and the
Palmer Divide lunchtime.
And this storm system is
pretty much long gone.
We still have the winter
storm warnings in place.
That's everywhere in red.
Further to the S,
Douglas Elbert County looks more like
4 to 5 inches toward Colorado Springs.
A bit more and certainly up in the mountains.
One to two,
potentially.
3 feet of snowfall coming throu.
Number still holding steady in e
40s here for the urban corridor
and it really is going to take
its time cooling off.
All about the rain tonight here in the city.
Snow sitting just to the South.
I do have a brief break with a
little sunshine and some warmer
weather on the way for us Thurs.
We'll chat about that 7 day
forecast in just a bit,
but Nine News reporter Luis de .
He is out and about in Castle
Rock right there on I-25.
Louise, are you seeing rain?
Are you seeing snow? What's going on?
Most of this afternoon and into this evening,
Danielle, we've been seeing mosy
rain really just in the last few
moments here it's starting to tn
into a little bit of that wintry mix.
Despite that, those CDOT still s
that they are in full storm shit
mode with 80 plows throughout te
entirety of the Denver metro into the
overnight hours and another 20 0
really focusing on that I-70 corridor.
And Speaking of which,
if you had a few miles into the
mountains on the I-70 corridor,
it is a very different sight frm
what we are seeing right now.
Speaking of which,
you should be seeing that video.
Right now on your screen from ts
afternoon we were out there in
Evergreen when the snow pretty h
started to form and start falli.
The Evergreen Fire Protection
District's Assistant Chief tolde
on the phone today that they'lle
their fire trucks tires chainedp
tonight as they expect feet of .
Now.
The difference in weather as we
drove back into the metro this
evening was quite stark where
snow quickly turned to rain.
So much rain that C dot is a
little bit concerned and keeping
track of possible flooded stree.
Our roads could be a slick.
Due to wet pavement conditions
and hydroplaning, if you're goig
anywhere in the high country,
in the higher elevations
along the Front Range,
especially in the mountains ande
higher elevated areas of the I-5
corridor along the Palmer Divid,
you have to be extra careful
and be prepared for the worst.
And he did also hear them just
mention the I-25 corridor just ,
which is right over my shoulder.
You can see their car
still going out and about.
They're really going to be focu.
C dot is between the areas of Castle Rock
here and over down to Monument, really.
Because if it isn't snowing,
it's going to be raining.
If it isn't raining,
it's going to be snowing.
I can create a lot of that slush
and a lot of those slick roads.
Jeremy
and Kim, it's a fine line and it
could go either way. All right.
Thanks, Louise. The weather
created headaches at the airport
to flights were delayed,
grounded as families anxiously waited
for their loved ones to arrive.
9 News reporter Kelly Reinke spe
to some folks at the airport
than the waiting for hours Kell.
Yeah, this is probably the busit
we've seen in the last couple of hours.
Families were arriving here when they
thought their loved ones were going to land,
only to be met with update after
update that the flights were delayed.
Planes were grounded at DIA,
which meant that the flights tht
were coming into Denver had to
be diverted to other airports.
Around 5:00 o'clock or so,
we met Olivia past Waters and
her sisterinlaw, Isabel.
They were waiting for Olivia's husband,
who is coming home from a mility
deployment in the Mediterranean.
She has not seen him and.
Over 200 days and the weather
made her wait even longer.
It was supposed to land at like 5:00 o'clock.
And then they were like delayed, delayed.
And then the plane circled for too long.
So they have to go to Salt Lake to get gas,
have to embarrass him,
the goose, everything.
She loved her.
Sign from the airport,
we could see Colorado's
first tornado of the year.
The Lance spout touched near
Keensburg this afternoon,
and people that were driving toe
airport this afternoon could see
that weather coming in and they
were just praying that the fligs
will not be delayed too long.
Olivia again.
We met around 5:30.
She is still here at the arrivals terminal,
but she's now standing Kim.
So hopefully that means that her
husband will be coming out soon.
My goodness, you wait that long
and then you have the delay
when you get to the airport.
It's a double whammy. Well,
I hope you get to see that mome.
Yeah. How anxious and nervous she is.
Yeah, all right.
She can make it a little longer, I guess.
OK. Fingers crossed. Thanks, Ke.
This afternoon storm brought ply
of light lightning and also kept
firefighters busy in some spots.
A lightning strike hit a home on block of St.
in the Table Mountain area of North Arvada.
Fortunately, everyone got out of the home OK.
Lightning also took down a treen
Denver's Sunnyside neighborhood.
What a way to welcome in
severe weather season.