Historic November snow piles up across Colorado

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AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reports from Colorado where historic amounts of snowfall have fallen as of Nov. 8, with more snow expected. Some areas, such as Trinidad, received up to 23 inches of snow.

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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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