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Purgatory Resort snow report As of 4:51 p.m. MT Oct 19, the Purgatory Resort SNOTEL station (Cascade #2, 8,990 ft) reports 0 in. of new snow in 24 h, 0 in. in 48 h, base 0 in.
San Juan Mountains · Colorado
Today’s numbers Source: SNOTEL (Cascade #2, 8,990 ft). Measured 4:51 p.m. MT Oct 19 .
Measure Value Source Measured Base depth 0″ SNOTEL 4:51 p.m. MT Oct 19 New snow, 24 h 0″ SNOTEL 4:51 p.m. MT Oct 19 New snow, 48 h 0″ SNOTEL 4:51 p.m. MT Oct 19 Snow water equivalent 0″ SNOTEL 4:51 p.m. MT Oct 19 Percent of normal — SNOTEL 4:51 p.m. MT Oct 19
Last 7 days Date Snow depth SWE Precip (accum.) High / low QC Oct 18, 2026 0″ 0″ 3.6″ 54° / 30° valid Oct 17, 2026 0″ 0″ 3.6″ 60° / 29° valid Oct 16, 2026 0″ 0″ 3.5″ 59° / 26° valid Oct 15, 2026 0″ 0″ 3.5″ 55° / 30° valid Oct 14, 2026 0″ 0″ 3.5″ 40° / 31° valid Oct 13, 2026 0″ 0″ 2.4″ 46° / 37° valid Oct 12, 2026 0″ 0″ 1″ 51° / 42° valid
Daily readings from NRCS station 387:CO:SNTL; suspect rows are kept and flagged.
Forecast Day Forecast High / low Est. snow Precip chance Today Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 54° / 37° 0″ 24% Wed Showers And Thunderstorms 52° / 41° 0″ 91% Thu Showers And Thunderstorms 48° / 37° 0″ 100% Fri Slight Chance T-storms 44° / 31° 3″ 73% Sat Chance Snow Showers 45° / 28° 3″ 37%
National Weather Service point forecast. Snow amounts are keyword estimates from the forecast text, not a quantitative precipitation forecast.
Where these numbers come from Depth, new snow and snow water equivalent are read from the Cascade #2 NRCS station at 8,990 ft, synced every six hours and run through range and spike checks. A station sits at one elevation, so it can disagree with the resort’s own upper-mountain report. How PeakCam reads the sensors .