Snowpack news: San Juan Basin gets more snow

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From The Durango Herald (Katie Burford):

Monitors were showing 17 inches of snow from the storm at Molas Pass, 14 inches around Cascade and 21 inches at Wolf Creek’s summit, he said. At lower elevations, where snow has fallen off and on since Friday, accumulations were not as great as daily temperatures hovered above the freezing mark. Sunday’s snowfall in Durango was 5½ inches as of 7 p.m., said local weather forecaster Briggen Wrinkle. Since Friday, Durango had received 10 inches of snow.

From The Pueblo Chieftain (James Amos):

The National Weather Service recorded 3.8 inches of snow Sunday, which yielded 0.2 inches of precipitation. Monday’s collection of 0.4 inches of snow and 0.01 inches of precipitation was far more modest. But the snow put the Pueblo area above average for snowfall this month, even while the winter lags behind the yearly average. Pueblo has received about 9.2 inches of snow this month. About 19.1 inches of snow has fallen in the Pueblo area this winter, a few inches behind the yearly average of 22.3 inches, according to Randy Gray, a meteorological technician at the weather service…

Residents in Trinidad and Walsenburg woke up to about 4 inches of snow and a couple more inches fell Monday. Cuchara residents reported a foot of snow falling Sunday night into Monday morning with an additional 6 inches falling by 3 p.m…

Wolf Creek Ski Area reported 17 inches of snow in the 24 hours prior to 9 a.m. and 45 inches since the storm hit earlier in the weekend…

In the Upper Arkansas Valley, between 2.5 and 4.5 inches of snowfall was reported overnight Sunday, giving Fremont County students a chance to sleep in Monday when school officials in Canon City, Florence and Penrose announced two-hour delayed starts. Elsewhere in the area, Chaffee County’s high country got plenty of snow. Weather spotters reported 17 inches of snow one mile southwest of Buena Vista and 17.5 inches of snowfall during the weekend at Monarch Mountain, 11 inches of which fell overnight Sunday to give the ski area a 77-inch base…

In Custer County, between 3 inches and a foot of snow were reported across the county. Custer County Road and Bridge Foreman Dave Trujillo said 8-12 inches of snow fell in the upper elevations and 6-7 inches accumulated in the town of Westcliffe, while 3-4 inches fell in the Rosita area.

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