Heavy Snow — Oak Creek and Sycamore Canyons, Arizona

2013-02-09 to 2013-02-10 · Oak Creek and Sycamore Canyons, Arizona

Event narrative

Eleven inches of snow was reported in upper Oak Creek Canyon.

Wider weather episode

An extremely cold trough of low pressure from the Pacific moved over the western United states for several days. A series of disturbances moved through this trough producing several rounds of heavy snow over northern Arizona. Some locations had a brief break in snow fall while other locations only saw periods of heavy snow between lighter periods of snow. This trough will be treated as one episode because of the difficulty in separating the events into different episodes.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 436858. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.