A fast-moving spring storm has forced the closure of several highways on the Eastern Plains tonight.
Interstate 70 has been closed from Burlington to Limon, Interstate 76 from Julesberg to the Kansas state line, U.S. 385 from Kit Carson to Wray and U.S. 6 from Holyoke to the state line because of snow and poor visibility.
Earlier, the storm left much-needed moisture over wide parts of northern Colorado through this morning.
More than a foot of snow fell in some parts of the mountains and areas in the foothills received several inches of snow as well, said David Barjenbruch, a meteorologist and spokesman with the National Weather Service in Boulder.
“The north got lots of great water equivalent that will help minimize fire dangers, at least over the next several days,” Barjenbruch said.
Snow and rainfall was plentiful north of I-70, Barjenbruch said, but south of Denver, especially around the Palmer Divide, areas didn’t fare as well.
Aspen Springs, in Gilpin County, received 19 inches of snow and areas around Nederland, in Boulder County, received up to 16 inches of snow.
Closer to Denver, the Evergreen and Conifer areas, in Jefferson County, received between 4 to 6 inches of snow and Boulder got about 2.5 inches.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
