John Farley
Supporter
During the period from March 12 to 14, a major snowstorm impacted much of the Rocky Mountain region. Most of the media attention went to northern Colorado and southern Wyoming, where the storm produced record and near record snowfall in a number of areas. But there was also some interesting weather in the mountains of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico that got far less attention, but did offer up some nice photo ops for me in Santa Fe, NM. I have put together a Web page with some photos of some rather impressive convection that produced brief heavy bursts of graupel and ordinary snow in parts of Santa Fe and the nearby foothills, and marked the beginnings of a much more significant snowfall in the mountains of northern NM that lasted for 30 hours and produced snow totals in excess of 20 inches. The Web page also includes some discussions of why the heavy snow was widespread over northern Colorado and southern Wyoming, but much more limited to the mountains in New Mexico and Southern Colorado. You can access the Web page at: