Monsoon Storm Dumps Hail On Colorado's Grand Mesa, Making It Look Like Mid-Winter

By Chris Spears, CBS Denver:

DENVER (CBS4) – Western Colorado received some much needed precipitation from the North American Monsoon on Wednesday and some of it fell in the form of ice. Late afternoon thunderstorms dropped enough hail on the Grand Mesa to make it look more like a winter wonderland.

The images below from CDOT show the scene at over 10,000 feet late Wednesday. Some areas received as much as an inch of rain from the slow-moving thunderstorms.

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