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Heavy Snow in Eastern Sawatch Mountains Above 11000 Ft, Colorado

Heavy Snow December 8, 2021 – December 10, 2021 · Eastern Sawatch Mountains Above 11000 Ft, Colorado

What the National Weather Service wrote

Storm total of 9 inches over the past 48 hours.

The wider storm

December 8th began a very active period of heavy mountain snowfall across most of western Colorado, from the Continental Divide westward. Several feet of snow fell across the southwest mountains causing heavy travel impacts on US Highway 160, closing Wolf Creek Pass for a time due to blowing snow and near white out conditions. Heavy snow was also reported along the western side of the Continental Divide, the Sawatch Mountain range.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 997137. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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