An upper level weather system brought widespread precipitation to the area during the period, with heavy and wet snow producing difficult travel conditions over the eastern mountains and Palmer Divide. Highest amounts were generally in the eight to ten inch range, over and near the higher terrain.
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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 PUB wrote it up.
An upper level weather system brought widespread precipitation to the area during the period, with heavy and wet snow producing difficult travel conditions over the eastern mountains and Palmer Divide. Highest amounts were generally in the eight to ten inch range, over and near the higher terrain.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy snow of 10.0 inches, 1 mile west southwest of Rye.
Heavy snow of 9.5 inches, 3 miles north northeast of Monument.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1017508, 1017509.