Heavy snow belts Rockies and Plains; Texas city to see 67-degree temperature drop
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 05:30
in Earth & Climate
A blast of cold air being dragged southward by a dip in the jet stream threatened the Rockies, Plains and parts of the Midwest with snowfalls this week that meteorologists said could be “historic.”Nearly two feet of snow is forecast for the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming, where heavy snow started falling Tuesday. Several inches could also fall by the end of the week in a band from North Texas t...