00:00The winter weather has started in Colorado, and it shows no sign of stopping at least today.
00:06Which is never an issue for meteorologist Tony Laubach, who lives for the snow.
00:11He joins us live from Pueblo, Colorado. And Tony, our favorite report was the one that
00:18gave us the measurement in the height of cows. Did you see that one?
00:21I did see that one. The cows aren't as friendly with me. They typically don't gravitate toward
00:30me for some reason. I'm a cat person. And if you saw the snow report, because I mean,
00:35it was like, up to the bellies of cows. If I tried to put my cat, I would have to stack
00:39all five of my cats up on top of each other, just to get even like maybe something on the surface.
00:46And I'm going to tell you, my cats get along real well together. That would be a death sentence
00:52trying to do that. This is coming from my wife, who would be laughing at me now as she tries to
00:56put our cats into Christmas bows every year. Anyway, we're back. All right. We're done.
01:00We're done. We're done. We're done. Although that would be a catastrophe, but the snow is not a
01:05catastrophe. Oh, my God. I'm full of dad jokes. This is what happens when you get me up in the
01:08morning. But we are talking about snow. See, I just got booed in my ear from the producers.
01:12All right, everybody stops. We got to talk serious. We got to talk snow, because this is
01:16I'm going to start to put the word historic on this, because this has been a one, two, three
01:21punch of some of the craziest snows that we've seen in a long time during the month of November.
01:26November, kind of one of these weird months for us here along the Colorado Front Range,
01:30where we get these type of storms every now and again. It's not rare, but it is certainly not
01:35something we see year to year to year to year. This is definitely going to be one that's going
01:39to be remembered for a long time, especially across the eastern half of the state. So basically
01:45from the continental divide east, which includes the non-Rockies part, the high plains. But that
01:50I-25 corridor, that is where the big impacts have been. Let's show you some of the measurements
01:54from southeast Colorado. This is where the second round has really taken aim. It's been southeast
01:59and eastern Colorado. And you look at some of these numbers. Trinidad, which was where I ultimately
02:03was hoping to go, but I was unable to get there because of that closure of I-25. You see at the
02:07bottom, though, they're closing in two feet of snow. They're going to add to that easily today,
02:13probably getting close to three feet by the time it's all said and done. Colorado Springs,
02:16just to my north, about a foot. And then here in Pueblo, the only six inches here. But as you can
02:22see, it's snowing pretty good. We'll show you some of the video out a little bit further east
02:26where they were on the second round. And you see some of the snow there coming down.
02:31We had over a foot of snow in areas like Rocky Ford, La Junta, out toward Lamar. They're adding
02:36to that big time this morning with snow rates one to two inches per hour. Highway 50, one of the
02:42major routes, the east-west routes in southeast Colorado, remained open yesterday despite many
02:47areas, including, as you mentioned, that closure on I-25. That was one of the only places open that
02:52got you from Pueblo out to Lamar. That road, mainly wet. CDOT crews doing an excellent job
02:57keeping up with that. I-25, as we've been mentioning, was closed. That one's basically
03:02from Pueblo to the border and then beyond into New Mexico. They closed that for quote-unquote
03:07safety reasons. With all the heavy snow expected, you saw that report in the Trinidad, which is
03:12just north of the New Mexico border. You saw the snow issues they were having there. So they just
03:16didn't want people to get stuck and stranded. We had a lot of the sheriff's departments out on the
03:21eastern plains getting onto social media warning people, do not drive because the conditions were
03:27so bad. I-70 did get open again here this morning. I would imagine as this heavy snow continues to
03:32shift to the northwest, we're going to see the closure of I-70 once again. So folks, I know some
03:37of these roads are open and I know you look at the map. You say, okay, maybe I can drive. It is
03:41highly recommended you do not travel in eastern Colorado probably through tomorrow. These closures
03:47are likely going to be on and off. They're trying to allow what they can to get through. One of the
03:52things, too, I talk about all the time is how they deal with these closures, particularly into Kansas.
03:56You get these closures, you see these images sometimes, and you're like, hey, the conditions
04:00don't look bad. They have to close the interstates as you go and fill people up at the various small
04:05towns along the way there. And Ari, we had this conversation on Wednesday. Sorry, Grandmother Ari,
04:11I'm properly gloved here this morning. So I thought you would be happy to know that.
04:16I told him, I was like, I'm sorry, I'm such a mom. I'm like, honey, why aren't you wearing gloves
04:20outside? He's wearing gloves now. He is. And you know, Tony, I want to let you know,
04:25that was such a perfect report. He wanted a cat. Yeah, I got that.
04:33I liked it. I love it. I love it, Bernie. All right, Tony, stay, stay safe. Stay warm.
04:39The snow's coming down all day.
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