4/7/24 Sunday 9:40 am
When I woke up yesterday, I thought we had just another disappointing storm coming in on the low end of expectations. By late morning the leftovers showed up and they were formidable. At least, for those of us west of Durango. Snow squalls developed as the colder air moved across the area—periods of heavy snow from Dolores to Dwest and Lightner Creek. The snow fired back up in the higher elevations as well, delivering a few more inches to the overnight totals.
At the end of the day, the models did a pretty-good on the accumulations. I stuck with the lower amounts and they were all within range of verifying.
I don’t need snow reports, however, I am curious how far east the snow squalls occurred. I was driving home from shopping. I was on 160 heading west, as I left the Durango city limits I could see the squalls just as I passed Lightner Creek. By 1 pm the temperature at DwII was down to 29 degrees with snow, blowing snow and high winds. Squalls would blow through, then the sun would come out and start melting everything. This happened until late in the afternoon. If this storm had occurred in February we would have had considerably higher totals.
Monday will be the coolest day of the week, with a good chance of snow showers in the higher elevations. There will be a chance of rain in the lower elevations and mixed precipitation in the mid-elevations.
Spring returns By Wednesday and temperatures will warm up and things will dry out. The next chance of a storm will be, you guessed it, next weekend!
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We had snow squalls 15 miles east of Bayfield on Hwy 160 off and on yesterday afternoon… mostly graupel. Gusty winds. Springtime in the Rockies!😊
I am about 7 miles s of Bayfield and we had intermittent snowshowers all day
Dave Tucker