Although the storm wreaked havoc on trees and power lines, it might have been what the area needed after an usually dry February that cast southern El Paso County into "moderate drought," according to Randy Gray with the National Weather Service in Pueblo.
Some definitions use only snowfall data, while other use only snow depth data and yet others use both data sets to define a white Christmas, said Randy Gray, a Pueblo meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
Randy Gray, a weather service forecaster, said the snow in thePueblo area melted almost as fast as it fell, bringing about 0.3inches of rain with it. The snowfall amounted to about 9 inches inthe Rye area and 7 inches in Beulah.