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Downtown Denver/Cherry Creek area got about 1"-1.5" per hour this evening while we were there, guessing about 8-9" so far from looking at the cars. Much less here about 7 miles away, around 4.5". Still snowing hard. Gorgeous. First storm this winter that was not wind-driven. If it were December not April, worthy of a postcard!

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Channel 7 weather just reported a bit over 18" for Fort Collins, wow!  Trying to remember if anything last year compares, but this is certainly by far our biggest snow this winter.

 

I had a three day storm total of 22" in February 2012. DEN got about 16" with that one. This was easily the biggest storm for me since then.

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I don't believe this is correct. The records I see from the WRCC show the previous coldest record low after 4/8 being 7 in 1959: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?co2220

 

Therefore, the low of 6 was DEN's coldest temperature on record so late in the season. The high of 12 Cheyenne saw was also their coldest high this late in the season. Pretty remarkable.

You could be right...but I pulled my data from the following, which shows a low of 6F on 4/12/1997:

 

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bou/include/showProduct.php?product=aprn.txt&parentdir=cli

Huh. Well I would trust the local NWS records over the regional climate center, so you're probably right. Weird that there is that discrepancy.

 

 

The issue is the data site.  DIA was 6F on 4/12/1997.  However, Station 052220 listed on the wrcc link is Stapleton, where records are still kept.  It was only 8 there on 4/12/1997.

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The issue is the data site.  DIA was 6F on 4/12/1997.  However, Station 052220 listed on the wrcc link is Stapleton, where records are still kept.  It was only 8 there on 4/12/1997.

 

Thanks for clearing that up. I know that was right around the time they started keeping records at DIA, so it makes sense.

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BTW, found that they started taking snowfall observations at DIA (versus just Stapleton) sometime in 2007.  Here's an interesting comparison:

Stapleton vs. DIA        Jan       Feb       Mar       Apr       May       Jun       Jul       Aug       Sep       Oct       Nov       Dec        Ann2008  3.1/1.9   5.1/5.1   5.4/4.5   2.9/2.9   1.0/3.4     0/T       0/T       0/T       0/0       0/T     3.2/1.7   7.1/10.3  27.8/29.82009  2.8/4.9   0.8/T     6.7/13.8  5.5/7.4     M/0       0/T       0/0       0/T       0/0     9.0/17.2  6.6/9.3   6.8/11.1  38.2/63.72010  0.9/2.6   7.4/5.8  11.6/12.8  1.5/0.5   2.0/1.3     0/T       0/T       0/0       0/0       0/0     3.4/1.5   2.0/3.3   28.8/27.82011  6.6/8.0   9.0/5.3   1.8/2.5   1.8/1.2     T/1.0     0/T       0/T       0/0       0/0     5.0/8.5   4.3/4.5  16.0/16.5  44.5/47.52012  3.2/4.9  18.3/20.2    T/T     3.1/1.0     0/T       0/T       0/0       0/0       0/T     7.4/5.5   1.1/1.7   2.5/5.2   35.6/38.52013  2.5/4.6  10.2/14.1                                                                                                      12.7/18.7
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BTW, found that they started taking snowfall observations at DIA (versus just Stapleton) sometime in 2007.  Here's an interesting comparison:

Stapleton vs. DIA        Jan       Feb       Mar       Apr       May       Jun       Jul       Aug       Sep       Oct       Nov       Dec        Ann2008  3.1/1.9   5.1/5.1   5.4/4.5   2.9/2.9   1.0/3.4     0/T       0/T       0/T       0/0       0/T     3.2/1.7   7.1/10.3  27.8/29.82009  2.8/4.9   0.8/T     6.7/13.8  5.5/7.4     M/0       0/T       0/0       0/T       0/0     9.0/17.2  6.6/9.3   6.8/11.1  38.2/63.72010  0.9/2.6   7.4/5.8  11.6/12.8  1.5/0.5   2.0/1.3     0/T       0/T       0/0       0/0       0/0     3.4/1.5   2.0/3.3   28.8/27.82011  6.6/8.0   9.0/5.3   1.8/2.5   1.8/1.2     T/1.0     0/T       0/T       0/0       0/0     5.0/8.5   4.3/4.5  16.0/16.5  44.5/47.52012  3.2/4.9  18.3/20.2    T/T     3.1/1.0     0/T       0/T       0/0       0/0       0/T     7.4/5.5   1.1/1.7   2.5/5.2   35.6/38.52013  2.5/4.6  10.2/14.1                                                                                                      12.7/18.7

 

It's odd how poorly both stations have done for snowfall the past 6 years or so, compared to most the area. Boulder saw it's snowiest season on record in 2009-10, with 134.5"...they also had above normal snowfall in 2011-12 and 2008-09. Longterm, Boulder averages 20" more a season than Denver.

 

I live about halfway between Boulder and Stapleton, and I've averaged about 20"/season more than the airports in that same time frame.

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