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Heavy Snow in Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Between 7500 & 11000 Ft, Colorado

Heavy Snow May 5, 2026 – May 6, 2026 · Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Between 7500 & 11000 Ft, Colorado

What the National Weather Service wrote

There was 9.5 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 1338786. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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