Heavy Snow in Northern Sangre De Cristo Mountains, Colorado

A moist Pacific weather system moved across the Rockies and into the central plains of the U.S.from the 8th through the 10th. Abundant moisture was wrapped around the system, and brought snow to the southwestern and south central mountains the afternoon of the 8th through the 10th...and to the southeastern plains the morning of the 9th through the 10th. Totals from a persistent band of snow ranged from 4 inches at the Pueblo Memorial Airport to 7 inches at Manzanola and Swink in Otero county. Fort Reynolds in Pueblo county reported 9 1/2 inches of accumulation by the afternoon of the 9th. Across Monument Ridge, north of Colorado Springs, storm totals ranged from 10 to 18 inches in the Monument and Black Forest region east into northeast El Paso county. Near blizzard conditions were experienced during the afternoon of the 10th in eastern El Paso county, forcing U.S. Highway 24 to close for a time. Other snowfall totals included around one foot at Beulah and 20 to 25 inches around Rye in Pueblo county in the Wet Mountains. Twenty two inches fell at Aspen Acres Campground in Custer county, and a remarkable 44 inches at Cuchara at 9,000 feet in the Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains.