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Heavy Snow in Southern Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico
Heavy Snow January 8, 2012 – January 9, 2012 · Southern Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico
What the National Weather Service wrote
The maximum snowfall reported was 6.2 inches in Sunspot. Cloudcroft received 5.5 inches for the event.
The wider storm
A deep upper low moved through Eastern Arizona and then across the New Mexico/Mexico border. A strong back door cold front moved across the region providing good upslope conditions over the Sacramento Mountains where over 6 inches of snow was reported.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 359736. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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