Winter Storm — La Garita Mountains Above 10000 Ft, Colorado

2009-10-28 to 2009-10-29 · La Garita Mountains Above 10000 Ft, Colorado

Wider weather episode

A slow moving winter storm system produced significant snow across a widespread area of southern Colorado. Some snow amounts include...around a foot near the Royal Gorge (Fremont County)...Monarch Pass (Chaffee County) and Rosita (Custer County)...14 to 16 inches around Woodland Park (Teller County)...Rye and Beulah (Pueblo County)...Salida (Chaffee County)...Cuchara and La Veta (Huerfano County)...17 to 19 inches near the Spanish Peaks (Huerfano County)...Maysville (Chaffee County) and Mounument (El Paso County)...22 to 25 inches just northwest of Buena Vista and southwest of Nathrop (Chaffee County)...northeast of Florissant (Teller County)...and the summit of Wolf Creek Pass (Mineral County).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 199589. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.