Snow piles up in Colorado, shutting down interstates

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AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reported live from Colorado on Nov. 7, where large amounts of snow were closing long stretches of major interstates.

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00:00Wintry scenes are emerging we have blizzard warnings in parts of the

00:03southern Rockies as a slow-moving storm brings additional heavy snow into the

00:08weekend. That's right now AccuWeather storm chaser and meteorologist Tony

00:12Laubach he's following this major storm this for this first major winter storm

00:16he's live right now in La Junta, Colorado with the update. Tony go ahead.

00:23Yeah Damian we are in the midst of round two. If you remember about a day or so

00:29ago I was talking about the closure of I-70 with the first round that went

00:33through we are now in the midst of the second of three rounds that this

00:37incredible winter storm is going to produce for a good chunk of Colorado

00:42east of the Rockies here in La Junta, Colorado. You see the snow is pretty deep

00:46I've actually measured over a foot pretty consistently from Rocky Ford and

00:51points east and a lot of this coming from the earlier storm that we had about

00:55a day or so ago so we're piling snow on top of snow and it's come down in

00:59bursts and some of those bursts have been pretty pretty heavy but it's been

01:03the travel that has been the big deal we're gonna take it back toward the west

01:06to I-25 because really it's going to be the closures that we are going to start

01:09to see really piling up that has already been the case this year I-25 this is at

01:14mile marker exit 91 south side of Pueblo at stem Beach where they are

01:20pulling traffic southbound off I-25 they are trying to get ahead of a lot of

01:25the issues that they are likely going to have in that heavy snow particularly

01:28south of Pueblo really starts to add up they're talking anywhere from two to

01:33three feet plus in some of those areas and that includes the I-25 corridor so

01:37they don't want people on the roads I-25 from Pueblo to Raton, New Mexico that's

01:42about a hundred mile stretch of I-25 in addition we've got the closure of I-70

01:47from Denver to Burlington that likely going to be a long-term deal as we're

01:52going to see that snow continue into Friday and Saturday in addition to that

01:56we've got numerous state and US highways that are closed folks if you are

02:00anywhere in the state of Colorado or you are getting into Colorado from outside

02:04the state travel is not recommended by any stretch the Lincoln County Sheriff I

02:09saw on social media posting if you were on the roads you will get stranded this

02:13snow is coming down heavy and again this is on top of snow that we've already

02:16seen over previous days some locations well over a foot and for many of them

02:21the snow hasn't even really gotten going yet so we're gonna add another double

02:25digits to that as we go through the day on Thursday now as we get into Friday

02:30after a little bit of a lull we're gonna start to see the last round of this

02:34storm that's gonna come through that's gonna be a little bit further north

02:37Denver under winter storm warnings now we've seen those just recently upgraded

02:41so they're concerned with double-digit snow totals in the Denver metro area as

02:44well so for the first storm of the season guys this is a biggie and I've

02:48been in Colorado a long long time typically we kind of work our way in but

02:53November's kind of one of these weird months for us where we can sometimes get

02:56some big-time snows and we are gonna see that here over the next few days and

03:00you're not kidding Tony look at these numbers here 34 inches of snow at

03:03Levada Pass Colorado San Isabel 32 inches Cuchara 31 inches of snow Las

03:09Vegas New Mexico two feet of snow there in Las Vegas New Mexico beautiful scene

03:13in Colorado Springs

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