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Heavy Snow in Upper Gila River Valley, New Mexico
Heavy Snow January 25, 2021 – January 26, 2021 · Upper Gila River Valley, New Mexico
What the National Weather Service wrote
A maximum snowfall amount reported was 9.2 inches at Gila Hot Springs. Another report from 6 miles northeast of Cliff was 6.3 inches.
The wider storm
A strong upper trough was moving through the Desert Southwest with a 130 knot jet streak associated with it. Cold air was already in place behind a system which moved through a couple days earlier. The Gila and Sacramento Mountains received up to 10 inches of snow with the highest totals just outside of Silver City.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 937319. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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