Snow brings needed moisture to JeffCo

Doug Dodge was glad to see the snow start flying last Friday morning.

The Arctic air mass dropped about a foot around Boulder, with more in the higher elevations — a wet break in what has, so far, been an unusually warm and dry winter. The system is accompanied by subzero temperatures — a chilling reminder of what a Montana winter is all about, as the mean temperature for January was 30 degrees, or about seven degrees above average, according to the National Weather Service.

Overall, the storm was expected to bring one to three inches of snow water and up to two feet of snow in mountain locations, according to the National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS).