Brown Snowstorm

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Storm drops dark brown snow in Colo.

FRISCO, Colo. (AP) — Snow that some residents described as dark as

chocolate brown was reported across parts of Colorado Thursday, a

result of a wind storm in northern Arizona that kicked up dust that

fell with the snow overnight, officials said.

" It's pretty much statewide, " said Ethan Greene, director of the

Colorado Avalanche Information Center. " We've had reports from the San

Juans, Winter Park ... all over. "

 

Greene said it's not unusual to see plumes of reddish dust from the

desert Southwest drop on the Rocky Mountains in the spring.

 

Exceptionally dry conditions in northern Arizona contributed to the

dust, Greene said.

 

 

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