Winter Storm Sadie Brought Spring Snow From the Rockies Into the Midwest, Northeast

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A late-season snowstorm blanketed parts of the Rockies, Plains and Midwest, and Northeast in mid-April.

A broad southward plunge of the jet stream kept below-average temperatures anchored in place throughout much of the central and eastern United States. Pivoting through that jet stream, a disturbance wrung out a narrow west-to-east band of snow that was heavy in spots.

This system was named Winter Storm Sadie by The Weather Channel.

Winter Storm Sadie dropped a swath of snow from the northern and central Rockies eastward to the southern Great Lakes and Northeast.

By Thursday, northern parts of the Denver metro area picked up 6-12 inches of snowfall while the Rockies west of Denver have picked up more than two feet.

Boulder reported 16.9 inches, the city's second 16-inch-plus snowfall in just four days. Thursday's storm pushed Boulder to a new seasonal snowfall record of 151.2 inches.

More than 10 inches of snow fell in parts of southern Iowa and northern Missouri as this system pushed eastward. Just over 6 inches was measured in parts of Illinois and southern Michigan.

Most areas of the Northeast saw just a few inches of snow, mainly on grassy surfaces. However, a few locations in northern Pennsylvania, south-central New York and western Massachusetts reported over 6 inches of snowfall.

Providence, Rhode Island, experienced its third biggest snowfall on record for this late in the season when 1.2 inches of snow was measured on April 18. Worcester, Massachusetts, picked up 5.1 inches, making it the fifth biggest snowfall this late in the season.

Here are the top snowfall totals of at least 3 inches, by state, as of midday Saturday:

Colorado: 30.3 inches near Jamestown

Connecticut: 5.5 inches in Burlington

Idaho: 6 inches in Montpelier

Illinois: 6.6 inches near Kewanee

Iowa: 13.5 inches in Bedford

Massachusetts: 6 inches in Goshen

Michigan: 6.2 inches in Litchfield

Missouri: 10 inches in Unionville

Montana: 18 inches near Red Lodge

Nebraska: 9 inches near Ashland

New York: 7 inches in Endicott and Binghamton

Ohio: 5 inches near Pierpont

Pennsylvania: 9 inches at Leonard Harrison State Park

Rhode Island: 5.3 inches in North Foster

Vermont: 3.3 inches near Readsboro

Wyoming: 24 inches (estimated) near Lander

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