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Watch: Rattlesnakes flee hail storm, return to sip melting ice

Trail cameras captured the rarely observed phenomenon at a rattlesnake rookery Monday in Northern Colorado.

Trail cameras monitoring a rattlesnake rookery in Colorado have captured footage showing several snakes slithering for cover in a hail storm, then emerging to drink from melting ice pellets.

Project RattleCam shared the accompanying footage Tuesday, explaining: “There was a brief hail storm at the rookery yesterday. The snakes fled, then drank the melting ice.”

The hail storm struck with the air temperature at 81 degrees, Project RattleCam explained via YouTube.

Viewers may note that as the storm strengthened, the snakes were quicker to seek shelter in the rocks. But they were just as quick to emerge to capture what water they could from the melting pellets.

Project RattleCam, a collaboration between scientists at Cal Poly, Central Coast Snake Services, and Dickinson College, focuses on prairie rattlesnakes in Northern Colorado.

However, a California Cam is expected to launch in July.

The group’s mission is to “uncover the secret lives of snakes.”

Woman holes out for eagle to win $100K in Colorado event as softball-sized hail cancels final round

Little did Hung know how important that finale would become.

When Taiwanese golfer Juliana Hung holed out from 70 yards away on No. 18 during her second round of the Inspirato Colorado Women’s Open, little did she know how important that finale would become.

Hung’s eagle gave her a one-stroke advantage heading into what was expected to be a wild final round of the tournament at Green Valley Ranch Golf Club.

But when a freakish hail storm pounded the Denver golf course on Friday, organizers had to cancel the final round, meaning that Hung edged Dana Fall by one stroke to take the top prize of $100,000.

CBS Colorado had more on the storm:

General Manager of Green Valley Ranch Golf Club Matt Bryant met up with CBS Colorado Traffic Reporter Brian Sherrod to discuss the impact from the hailstorm. Bryant says the hail started hitting the field around 10 p.m. Thursday. It left hundreds to thousands of dents on the field, causing them to cancel their Colorado’s Women’s Golf Tournament.

Bryant tells CBS Colorado he has been working there for 18 years and this is the first time ever he’s had to cancel this tournament. Bryant says along with the dents, they have to remove the broken tree limbs from around the course. Bryant hopes the course will be reopened by the weekend but says it all depends on the weather.

“When you have hundreds of thousands of hail stones hitting the greens, it’s just like a battlefield,” Bryant said. “We have to do different grounds practices to get the greens back into smooth condition. Hopefully, we will be able to open this weekend.”

Hung, 22, broke the Epson Tour 54-hole scoring record earlier this year when she shot 19 under par at the IOA Championship in California. The record had been set in 2019 by Fernanda Lira and later matched by Alexa Pano in 2022 and Gabi Ruffels in 2023.