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Heavy Snow in Eastern San Juan Mountains, Colorado

Heavy Snow November 10, 2000 – November 11, 2000 · Eastern San Juan Mountains, Colorado

What the National Weather Service wrote

A slow moving upper level disturbance moving across the area brought a moist air flow...which produced significant snow amounts in parts of the eastern San Juan mountains. Twenty four inches of snow fell at the summit of Wolf Creek Pass in Mineral county...and 12 inches accumulated at Platoro in Conejos county. Ten inches was logged around South Fork in Rio Grande county. Two to 4 inches of snow fell in the rest of the southern mountains of Colorado and in parts of the adjacent plains.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5160882. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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