Snowfall

Officials with the Kaibab National Forest say record-breaking snowfall this winter has led to limited road access this spring. Some areas remain impassible due to snow, and other areas where snow has melted are extremely muddy.

At the Flagstaff Pulliam Airport, 140.1 inches of snow has been recorded since July 1, second only to the 153.9 inches in the July to March timespan in 1948 through 1949.

The Flagstaff area has received almost one hundred inches of snow so far this winter. That’s about average for the region, but it follows a stretch of dry winters that have drastically shrunk local rivers and reservoirs. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with Salli Dymond, a forest hydrologist at Northern Arizona University, about what this winter’s snowpack means for the future.

Snowfall for the month in Flagstaff officially hit a cumulative 60.4 inches Monday – making it the third snowiest January since record-keeping began in 1898.

The Arizona Department of Transportation has reopened all highways in northern Arizona that the agency had closed because of heavy snowfall throughout the region.

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