Snow coming! Ready for some football?
Rocky Mountain News
Published October 9, 2006 at midnight
The only ones cheering louder than the Denver Broncos cheerleaders tonight will be the high-country ski resorts because nothing says national exposure like a good snowstorm on Monday Night Football.
Molly Cuffe, Director of Communications for Ski Country USA, said the phones have been ringing off the hook since 4 this morning, and the web site is getting hits this morning as word of a Colorado snowstorm is spreading.
"We don’t have any resorts open yet, but A-Basin and Loveland are in a race and could open this weekend," Cuffe said.
"But whenever we get national exposure, people start making plans for their ski vacations and they wait to see who is getting snow. This helps us a great deal."
Bob Koopmeiners, meteorologist at the National Weather Service, is predicting a mixture of rain and snow showers this morning turning to all snow this afternoon and continuing into the evening.
The weather service is predicting 4 to 8 inches overnight from Leadville to Estes Park.
A snow advisory issued for the Front Range foothills will be in effect until 6 a.m. tomorrow. Denver may receive up to an inch or two.
"It could be in the upper 20s tonight for the football game," Koopmeiners said.
"We’re advising anyone with a swamp cooler or sprinkler system to blow them out and get ready for what may be a hard freeze Wednesday night," Koopmeiners said.
Also it would be wise to disconnect garden hoses from houses as well.
Heavy rain and snow is falling over southeastern Utah into southwestern Colorado, where flash flood watches have been issued, especially through the San Juan and La Garita mountains.
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