Heavy Snow — Wet Mountains, Colorado

1998-01-06 · Wet Mountains, Colorado

Wider weather episode

A storm system moved across Colorado on the 5th and 6th, bringing snow to the southern mountains. Four to 10 inches of snow fell in the eastern San Juan Mountains. Wolf Creek Pass picked up around 8 inches, with the Creede area in Mineral county logging around 4 inches. As a cold front swept through the state the night of the 5th, bands of snow developed across the eastern slopes of the southern mountains and nearby plains. Total accumulations ranged from 1 to 4 inches across Teller, El Paso, and Pueblo counties. Walsenburg in Huerfano county and Trinidad in western Las Animas county received 5 to 6 inches, Beulah and Rye in the Wet Mountains received 6 to 7 inches, and Cuchara in the Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains tallied10 inches.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5627687. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.