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Winter Storm Triton: Snow and Ice Reports
Winter Storm Triton: Snow and Ice Reports
Jan 2, 2025 10:53 PM

The Weather Channel named Winter Storm Triton on March 7, 2013. Triton brought a swath of snow beginning March 8 in California and continuing through March 11 in Upper Michigan. Lake-effect snow in the wake of Triton added to the totals in northern Michigan into March 12.

California

Top snow total: 7 inches at Bear Valley Springs, just southeast of Bakersfield.

Arizona

Top snow total: 26 inches at Forest Lakes.

Official Flagstaff snow total: 12.3 inches on March 8 and 2.9 inches on March 9 for a storm total of 15.2 inches. This may seem impressive for Arizona, but for Flagstaff the 12.3 inches on the 8th is not even a top-10 single-day snowfall for the month of March, let alone the entire year.

Nevada

Top snow total: 14 inches at Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort at an elevation of 9200 feet in the Mt. Charleston area.

Utah

Top snow total: 9.5 inches at Loa in central Utah.

Wyoming

Top snow total: Estimated 13.5 inches at Sage Creek Basin SNOTEL, 35 miles south of Rawlins, at 7850 feet elevation.

Triton Snow Reports

Colorado

Top snow total: 26 inches at Wolf Creek Ski Area.

Official Denver snow total: 5.4 inches on March 9.

New Mexico

Top snow total: 26 inches at Taos Ski Area.

Kansas

Top snow total: 9 inches at Burr Oak in north-central Kansas.

Missouri

Ice reports: 0.01" of ice glaze from freezing rain led to a multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 44 near Strafford, just east of Springfield, closing the eastbound lanes early Monday morning, March 11.

Triton Snow Reports

Nebraska

Top snow total: 14 inches at Ogallala in western Nebraska.

Official Omaha snow total: 9.0 inches at Eppley Airfield on March 10-11.

Iowa

Top snow total: 14 inches at Sioux Rapids and Cherokee in northwest Iowa.

Official Sioux City snow total: 9.8 inches on March 9-11.

South Dakota

Top snow total: 11 inches at Hamill in south-central South Dakota.

Minnesota

Top snow total: 12.5 inches near Spring Valley in southeast Minnesota.

Official Rochester snow total: 8.7 inches at the Rochester Airport as of 7 a.m. CDT Monday.

Wisconsin

Top snow total: 10 inches near Longwood, about halfway between Eau Claire and Wausau.

Michigan

Top snow total: 19.5 inches near Winona in Upper Michigan.

PHOTOS: Winter Storm Triton

Winona, Minn.

Seven inches of wet snow from Winter Storm Triton caused this tree branch to snap in Winona, Minn., on March 11, 2013. (iWitness Weather/Tom Grier)

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