Click the link to read the article on The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel website (Dennis Webb). Here’s an excerpt:
January 17, 2024
The National Weather Service in Boulder reported that from Friday through Monday, many areas in the central and northern mountains got 2 to 3 feet of snow, with some areas getting up to 4 feet, and wind gusts topping 100s mph in a few areas. Powderhorn Mountain Resort on Tuesday was reporting 8 inches over the past 48 hours. That was after it said it got more than 3 feet of snow over six days through last Thursday, including a whopping 24 inches in just 24 hours early last week. As of last week, all lifts and runs are now open at the resort. Vail Resorts is reporting seven-day snow totals at its Colorado ski areas ranging from 29 inches at Keystone Resort to 4 feet at Crested Butte Mountain Resort…Tom Renwick, a forecaster for the National Weather Service in Grand Junction, said the weekend storm produced about 50 inches of snow at Rabbit Ears Pass in the Steamboat Springs area and 51 inches at Green Mountain north of Vail, and much of the central mountain corridor got about 2 feet at higher elevations. In southwest Colorado, accumulations varied from about 4 to 8 inches in the foothills to a foot in higher elevations, he said. He said the Gunnison area had accumulations ranging from a foot to a foot and a half and Grand Mesa got around one foot in areas…
Snowpack in the Colorado River headwaters basin on Tuesday stood at 96% of normal for Jan. 16, with the Yampa/White/Little Snake river basins at 94% and the Gunnison River Basin also at 94%, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The Upper Rio Grande River Basin’s snowpack has increased to 71% of median from just 55% at the start of the month, the combined San Miguel/Dolores/Animas/San Juan basins stood at 84% of normal Tuesday and the Arkansas River Basin was at 85%.
