Colorado Greets Summer's Arrival With Winter Snow; Also More Storm Videos

Snow in Colorado over the weekend. Photo via Twitter @CoDude5280

The Summer Solstice brought a rare winter storm to Colorado and other sections of the Rocky Mountains.

Some of the higher totals included 4.9 inches in Cameron Pass and 4.2 inches in Berthoud Pass.  Mountain summits really got clobbered, with a report of two feet of new snow at Steamboat Springs.

The new snow prompted the Arapahoe Basin ski area to extend its season to the final days of June.

June snow happens from time to time in the Rocky Mountains, but this was awfully late in the season and awfully deep for the Summer Solstice

Here's the mid-winter like scene in Rabbit Ears Pass, Colorado over the weekend:



Storms continued to batter other parts of the nation Sunday. A tornado touched down around South Bend, Indiana. There were also many reports of wind damage across the South and Midwest.

Here's a close range video of a tornado hitting South Bend, Indiana. The twister badly damaged a day care center behind the CVS Pharmacy in the video:



Here's traffic cam footage in Georgia the other day showing extreme thunderstorm winds thrashing and collapsing traffic signals. Glad I wasn't in one of the cars there: