Here's where Fort Collins snow totals, Colorado snowpack stand after this week's storm

Miles Blumhardt, Fort Collins Coloradoan
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Fort Collins officially received 3.3 inches of snow during this week's storm and picked up 0.34 inches of precipitation, according to the Colorado Climate Center.

The National Weather Service forecast called for 2 to 4 inches. Snow started falling late Monday night and continued into Tuesday.

Here is a look at snowfall totals from around the area, where we are for the snow season and how snowpack is looking in the mountains.

Here are Fort Collins-area snowfall totals from this week's storm

  • Virginia Dale (7.2 miles south-southwest): 10 inches

  • Red Feather Lakes (5.9 miles northeast): 9.1 inches

  • Livermore (9.9 miles west-southwest): 9 inches

  • Estes Park (1.8 miles south): 6.8 inches

  • Horsetooth Mountain (3.2 miles north-northwest): 5 inches

  • Laporte (1.4 miles northwest): 5 inches

  • Laporte: 4.5 inches

  • Drake (4 miles west-southwest): 4.2 inches

  • Fort Collins (2.5 miles west): 4 inches

  • Fort Collins (official station on CSU campus): 3.3 inches

  • Fort Collins (2.3 miles northwest): 3 inches

  • Windsor (2.9 miles west) 3 inches

  • Greeley (1.1 miles east-northeast): 2.6 inches

  • Fort Collins (2.5 miles northeast): 2.5 inches

  • Fort Collins (1.7 miles southeast): 2.3 inches

  • Fort Collins (2 miles southwest):

  • Loveland (1.5 miles north): 2 inches

Previous storm: Biggest snowstorm of the season shocks Fort Collins with nearly 10 inches of snow

Fort Collins on track for average snowfall total for the season

  • Fort Collins has received 47.3 inches of snow on the season. The average for the season is 51.4 inches. April has a high variance of snow but averages 6.2 inches.

  • March has been the snowiest month this season with 15 inches. Average snowfall for the month is 9.4 inches. January was second-snowiest month with 10.8 inches, followed by November with 9.2 inches.

  • It snowed only four days in March, but the 8.8 inches recorded at the official station on the CSU campus on March 27 was our largest snowfall of the season.

  • Fort Collins has received 5.34 inches of moisture since Sept. 1, 2022.

Colorado mountains on pace for banner snowpack year

Statewide snowpack is at 139% as of April 5. About this time of year is peak snowpack, as mountains generally lose more snow than they accumulate later into the year.

Here's a look at snowpack by basin:

  • South Platte (Fort Collins, Denver): 106%

  • Laramie/North Platte: 129%

  • Yampa/White: 146%

  • Upper Colorado headwaters: 132%

  • Gunnison: 162%

  • San Miguel/Delores/Animas/San Juan: 180%

  • Upper Rio Grande: 136

  • Arkansas: 94%

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This article originally appeared on Fort Collins Coloradoan: Fort Collins area snow totals from early April storm, season so far