Snow returns to Colorado's high country near Leadville and Twin Lakes

Colorado's high country is starting to look a little more like winter.

Fresh snow coated some of the highest peaks near Leadville and Twin Lakes Tuesday, creating a wintry scene.

Leadville only dropped to 43 degrees Tuesday morning, but several thousand feet higher, temperatures were cold enough for snow.

The weather pattern that brought the snow was associated with our first strong fall cold front of the year. This also ushered in significantly cooler temperatures statewide.

September snow on the highest peaks in Colorado isn't unusual. In Leadville, the normal low is already around freezing by the middle of the month.

And snow will eventually work its way lower. Denver's average first measurable snow is Oct. 19.

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