The classrooms in the nearby Green Acres Elementary School were empty Monday. But there was heavy sledding activity on the hill behind the school. Despite temperatures in the low 20s, children and parents bundled up and hopped on lime- green and hot-orange sleds for the afternoon.

"We haven't had enough snow out here to go sledding," said Todd Schneider, who helped push his three children - Abbey, 15; T.J., 12; and Christopher, 4 - down the hill on sleds. "They've been driving us crazy."

Most parts of the metro area saw somewhere between 2 and 4 inches, not enough to close any school districts, cause any major power outages or cancel many flights out of Denver International Airport.

"It just seems like a regular March snow, doesn't it?" asked Polly White, who helped staff the state's emergency operations center Sunday evening.

The center ended up closing around 10 p.m. Sunday, and the National Weather Service downgraded its winter storm warning to a snow advisory around 3 a.m. Monday.

Meanwhile, cold air from Canada arrived later than expected, meaning some of the precipitation that fell as snow in the foothills Sunday fell as rain in the metro area. Areas along the I-70 corridor west of Denver reported 4 to 10 inches. Echo Mountain, a ski and snowboard park northwest of Evergreen, got 18 inches, said Doug Donovan, the park's general manager.

Christie and Eernest Bloomer of Idaho Springs dropped their 16-year-old son, Austin, off at Echo Mountain so he could ride the new powder. Clear Creek schools had a snow day Monday.

Not as happy about the weather were truckers putting on chains before heading up I-70. Truck driver John Kandler of Ohio watched other drivers strap on chains so he could learn from them.

Today should be cloudy and cold in the region. There is a chance of more snow Wednesday, but Paul Potter of Skyview Weather in Castle Rock said that while the mountains may pick up some snow accumulation, Denver probably won't.

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