Home / Colorado / Central Chaffee County Below 9000 Ft

Heavy Snow in Central Chaffee County Below 9000 Ft, Colorado

Heavy Snow May 5, 2026 – May 6, 2026 · Central Chaffee County Below 9000 Ft, Colorado

What the National Weather Service wrote

There was 3.8 inches of snow measured.

The wider storm

Another upper trough passed over Colorado near the end of the first week of May. Persistent upsloping into the mountains/plains interface, combined with some good synoptic forcing, gave us accumulating snowfall over several areas.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1338784. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

Tornadoes near your address

See every tornado that passed near a place you know, measured to its path.