May 21, 2019

In photos: Storm bring several inches of snow to Colorado, Wyoming

Snow in Lakewood, Colorado. Photo: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

A late spring storm has pelted parts of Colorado and Wyoming with an abnormally large amount of snow.

The big picture: While snow in May in this area isn't unheard of, this year's storm has ranked well above the average.

The storm so far has brought 3 inches of snow around Denver and up to 6 inches in other parts of Colorado, per CNN.

Denver has historically averaged 1.7 inches of snow in May, per the National Weather Service.

Wyoming is currently sitting at 8.5 inches total snowfall, per NWS Cheyenne's Twitter.

Cheyenne has historically averaged 2 inches of snow in May, according to U.S. climate data.

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Dion Rabouin

The growing coronavirus recession threat

Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios

In just a matter of weeks, top economists and investment bank analysts have gone from expecting the coronavirus outbreak to have minimal impact on the U.S. economy to warning that an outright recession may be on the horizon.

What's happening: The spread of confirmed coronavirus cases in Europe, the Middle East and the U.S., and the speed at which they are being discovered has set the table for the outbreak to have a larger and much costlier impact.

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Mass shooting in Milwaukee: What we know

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in 2012. Photo: John Gress/Corbis via Getty Images

Six people died in a shooting at the Molson Coors Brewing Company in Milwaukee on Wednesday, including the gunman, Mayor Tom Barrett told reporters at a Wednesday evening press conference with local police.

Details: All of the victims worked at the brewery complex, as did the shooter who died of "an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound," police confirmed in a statement late Wednesday.

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Coronavirus updates: South Korea case count tops 2,000

Data: The Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins, the CDC, and China's Health Ministry. Note: China numbers are for the mainland only and U.S. numbers include repatriated citizens.

33 people in California have tested positive for the coronavirus, and health officials are monitoring 8,400 people who have recently returned from "points of concern," Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday.

The big picture: COVID-19 has killed more than 2,850 people and infected over 83,000 others in some 50 countries and territories. The novel coronavirus is now affecting every continent but Antarctica, and the WHO said Wednesday the number of new cases reported outside China has exceeded those inside the country for the first time.

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