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Heavy Snow in East Slopes Sacramento Mountains Below 7500 Feet, New Mexico
Heavy Snow March 8, 2024 · East Slopes Sacramento Mountains Below 7500 Feet, New Mexico
What the National Weather Service wrote
Social Media photos showed around 9 inches of snow in Sixteen Springs Canyon. Six inches of snow was also snow about 4 miles west-northwest of Mayhill where there were reports of cars sliding off of Highway 82 east of Cloudcroft.
The wider storm
A broad positively tilted trough extended from the eastern Dakotas through the Four Corners region. A back door cold front pushed into central New Mexico with the easterly winds providing for good upslope flow on the eastern side of the Sacramento Mountains where up to 9 inches of snow fell.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1166852. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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