DENVER (AP) -- While some Americans are gazing at tulips and mowing lawns, people in Colorado and Wyoming are getting out their snow shovels. A late snowstorm is set to sweep over the Rocky Mountains and High Plains, bringing rain that's expected to turn to snow in the Denver area by Tuesday night, with up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) possible. Higher elevations might see as much as a foot (30 centimeters), the National Weather Service says. It could be Denver's biggest snowfall of the season. "We just had our driest winter on record," Kenley Bonner, a meteorologist in the weather service's Denver office, said. "We were kind of joking earlier in the season that winter's not going to come until spring, and it did exactly that." The snow is expected to continue into Wednesday, followed by plunging temperatures and a widespread freeze overnight, the weather service said. All that heavy, wet snow could snap tree branches and knock out power, Bonner said. Utilities are preparing, with Xcel Energy putting 165 employees on standby across the state. The forecast is unusual, but not unheard of. Denver typically sees its last snowfall around April 28, although May storms do happen. The...
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