A huge winter front blanketed all of southeastern Colorado on Wednesday and broke records in the region’s two big cities. Pueblo saw 5.8 inches of snowfall, nearly doubling the previous record for Dec. 3 of 3.2 inches in 2005. That snow also had a high moisture content, doubling the day’s previous liquid equivalent measurement record of .19 inches from 2005 to 0.48 inches.
In Colorado Springs, the recent storm just barely beat an over 120-year record for Dec. 3. The record for the liquid equivalent on Dec. 3 was .32 inches, set in 1913. On Wednesday, that record was beaten by a measurement of 0.34 inches of liquid equivalent.
The heaviest snowfall, according to the National Weather Service in Pueblo, landed in the Sangre De Cristo Mountain range, where some areas got over a foot of snow. The Cheyenne Mountain area accumulated up to 10 inches of snow as well…