As Jen Carfagno of The Weather Channel correctly states, this is NOT your typical May surface chart!

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All within 12 hours… heavy, windblown snow from Denver to Cheyenne across to Rapid City, severe and tornadic thunderstorms for the Central and Southern Plains to a landfalling Tropical Storm Ana near Myrtle Beach, SC. The 2nd earliest US landfalling TS.

What helped Ana become a fully tropical 60 mph storm was the fact it crossed the unusually warm 80 degree Gulf Stream.

While the 2nd earliest US landfalling tropical cyclone was hitting the Carolina coast, folks in the Rockies and high plains where digging out from record snow.

Rapid City, SD have been buried by 13.5 inches of snow, their 2nd largest May snowstorm on record. Last time this much snow fell was all the way back to May 3-4, 1905 when 14.6 inches fell.

Sturgis, SD this morning.

Denver appears to have received 4 inches of snow from this storm and also tied the record low of 27 also. Following flash flooding and tornadoes earlier yesterday before the snowstorm hit.

It’s been unusually cool across the Southwest. Tucson, AZ only managed 74 yesterday, more appropriate for late March and 5th coolest for the date.

Yep, some snow for the mountains of California and Nevada

Further chill is expected for the Southwest while it remains warmer than normal further east.

More including a video tomorrow morning…

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