Spring or Winter? Winter Storm Zeus Hits U.S.

weather.com & Associated Press Published: Apr 23, 2013, 10:42 AM EDT

Boulder, Colo.

Elementary school students are dropped off at class as Winter Storm Zeus dropped snow over Boulder, Colo., Tuesday April 23, 2013. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center says avalanche danger there is considerable. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Winter Storm Zeus hit the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest, leaving as much as a foot of snow in its wake. For the majority of the region, the late-season snowstorm was more of an oddity than anything else. But it's the latest in a round of snowstorms that have hit the region in recent weeks.

"Zeus piled on to what has been a very snowy and cold April in parts of the Rockies, northern Plains and Upper Midwest. Denver, Colo., Cheyenne, Wyo. and Minneapolis, Minn. are just a few of the locations that have dealt with multiple rounds of snow the last few weeks," says weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce. "Duluth, Minn. and Rapid City, S.D. have seen so much snow that this is now the snowiest April on record."

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