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Heavy Snow in Eastern Sawatch Mountains Above 11000 Ft, Colorado

Heavy Snow December 4, 2023 · Eastern Sawatch Mountains Above 11000 Ft, Colorado

What the National Weather Service wrote

Reported by the public.

The wider storm

A prolonged period with a long wave trough developed over Colorado at the beginning of December. At the beginning of the events and enhanced jet streak oriented from the SW to the NE formed over southern Colorado, which produced High Wind Warning Criteria winds. The lower elevations did not see much for snow, at most 5 inches, but the mountains produced magnitudes of around 1 foot and more.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1153671. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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