This is creating blizzard conditions for Colorado and 4 other states from the Rockies into the Great Plains. We have a First Alert Weather Day posted for Blizzard or Blizzard-like conditions ...

The sun disappeared behind a grey overcast, and a great stillness fell over the eastern Colorado plains ... Then, for 48 hours, a blizzard—the worst in 33 years—moaned down out of Wyoming ...

A weekend blizzard that battered parts of California ... Those states were California, Oregon, Idaho and Colorado. In the Sierra Nevada range, people were warned of a "high to extreme avalanche ...