Moisture moving off the Pacific from the west interacted with a frontal boundary dropping southward across the northern areas, favoring moderate snowfall across the mountains of northeast Utah and northwest Colorado, as well as the higher valleys of northwest Colorado. Milder air limited accumulations in the valleys.
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The episode as NWS GJT wrote it up.
Moisture moving off the Pacific from the west interacted with a frontal boundary dropping southward across the northern areas, favoring moderate snowfall across the mountains of northeast Utah and northwest Colorado, as well as the higher valleys of northwest Colorado. Milder air limited accumulations in the valleys.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Grand Junction, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 19, 9:35 PM MST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 winter weather, 1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Generally 10 to 15 inches of snow fell across the area with locally higher amounts of 20 inches at Tower. Winds gusted 40 to 42 mph at Storm Peak Lab but remained below 45 mph.
Generally 5 to 10 inches of snow fell across the area.
Generally 2 to 6 inches of snow fell across the area with 4 to 6 inches around Hayden and Meeker and 2 to 3 inches around Craig. The Meeker COOP reported 5.7 inches of snow. Winds gusted 30 to 35 mph on February 21.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 2024Every state in 2024This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, February 2024
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: 1165837, 1165838, 1165836.