Precipitation/snowpack news

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From The Pueblo Chieftain:

Wolf Creek Ski Area reported 12 new inches of snow Tuesday afternoon, bringing the storm total to 71 inches…Officials at Monarch Mountain reported 10 inches of new snow Tuesday, bringing the ski resort’s base to 60 inches of fluffy white stuff.

From The Aspen Times (Kristen Wyatt):

“We’ve had 22 inches of snow in the last 24 hours,” said Mark Esper, editor of the Silverton Standard. “It started out as a wet, slushy snow and now it’s all nice and fluffy.”[…]At Aspen/Snowmass, the Aspen Skiing Co. was reporting close to a foot of new snow at both Aspen Highlands and Buttermilk at about noon Tuesday. Both ski areas had 11 new inches, along with 8 inches at Snowmass and Aspen Mountain. The Skico was reporting 19 inches of new snow at Highlands in the past 48 hours, and 15.5 inches at Buttermilk over the same period. Snowmass had 13 inches over the previous 48 hours and Aspen Mountain picked up 10 inches, the company reported.

From Steamboat Today (Nicole Inglis):

Steamboat Ski Area has reported 3 feet of snow in the past seven days, and the city of Steamboat has received about 2 feet…Art Judson, an unofficial weather observer for the Na tional Weather Service, said he’s logged 18 inches of snow at his home on Anglers Drive since Friday. The National Resource and Conservation Center, which runs SNOTEL data sites, re corded 55 inches atop Buffalo Pass in the same amount of time. And this isn’t any Champagne Powder, Judson said. The snow at his house is about 11 percent water; Steamboat averages about 7 percent…

SNOTEL reports the snowpack about 6 miles north of Steamboat Ski Area at about 170 percent of average as of Tuesday.

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