Pedestrians brave the weather in downtown Denver, Colorado. "This is a very epic cyclone," said Greg Carbin, chief of forecast operations for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Weather Prediction Center. Hundreds of drivers were stranded on Colorado highways, including 500 in the Colorado Springs area alone. Parts of seven states were under blizzard warnings, and 20 states were under some level of high wind alert, Carbin said. Meteorologists call the rapid change in pressure a "bomb cyclone" or "bombogenesis."

Source: Otago Daily Times March 14, 2019 20:03 UTC