A cold upper low moving out of the Pacific Northwest combined with a back door cold front to bring heavy snow to the Southern Sacramento Mountains.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS EPZ wrote it up.
A cold upper low moving out of the Pacific Northwest combined with a back door cold front to bring heavy snow to the Southern Sacramento Mountains.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Maximum snowfall reported in the Southern Sacramento Mountains was 11.4 inches 1.8 miles southwest of Cloudcroft. Other reports across the zone included 9.2 inches in Cloudcroft, 8.1 inches 4.9 miles northeast of Cloudcroft and 7.3 inches in Sunspot.
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