Snow fell across the Rocky Mountains and the Front Range of Colorado and Wyoming between May 5 and 6, 2026. Cheyenne, Wyoming, received almost 12 inches of snow, the most from a snowstorm since mid-March 2021. Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado received almost 3 feet of snow, and about 6 inches fell on Denver, which had its biggest May snowstorm since 2003.
This false-color corrected reflectance (Bands 7-2-1) image has been overlaid with a snow cover data layer — the normalized difference snow index — to show the snow coverage from the storm on May 7, 2026. This false-color band combination is useful for distinguishing snow and ice (darker cyan) from clouds (brighter cyan to white). The data come from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra platform.