00:00This snowstorm will go into the books at 5.8 inches for Denver as measured out at the airport.
00:05And that will make it the largest May snowstorm since 2003.
00:10Fortunately, temperatures were just warm enough to keep the issues on the roads to a minimum.
00:16Unfortunately, that heavy wet snow piling up on already leafed trees.
00:20And you see scenes like this behind me, very large limbs, pretty much all across the metro area, littering streets.
00:25We saw numerous large limbs on vehicles. We saw large limbs on homes as well.
00:31Crews spent most of Wednesday out cleaning up a lot of that debris.
00:35That will be what this snowstorm will be remembered for here as we talk about May snowstorms,
00:41especially after what has been a historic low snow season for Denver.
00:46So it would figure after temperatures in March topping out at 90 degrees,
00:50the earliest time we've seen temperatures 90 degrees in the metro area.
00:54Of course, we'll get one of our bigger snowstorms in the month of May.
00:58And that is what happened with this.
01:00Totals, again, ranging from near half a foot out to the airport.
01:03The western suburbs picking up double-digit totals out of this snow that started on Tuesday.
01:08Heavy, heavy snow, one to three inches per hour in that initial band.
01:12And then we started to see that moderate snow continue throughout the overnight into the morning hours,
01:17leading to the mess of trees that we see all across town.
01:20Crews will continue to clean that up.
01:22And then temperatures, believe it or not, folks, we're talking 70s and 80s in the days to come.
01:27The roller coaster of May here along the Colorado Front Range.
01:31Reporting from Denver, Colorado for AccuWeather, I'm meteorologist Tony Laubach.
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