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Russo Loco

September 30, 2022 12:05PM

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guymonmd Wrote:
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> It looks like there was a significant late snow
> storm in 1932.
> Snow in late April and early May in Silverton is
> fairly common, but I would not expect that much
> accumulation out of most of the spring storms.

IIRC we got ten or twelve inches of snow in Telluride – just over the hill from Silverton – in mid-June, 1973, and I've seen a photo of snow there on the 4th of July around a century ago.

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