DENVER — After an honest February, with Colorado snowpack ranges at 88% of the median as of Feb. 28, Denver is coming into its statistically snowiest month—March.
March is a really energetic month in Denver as we transition into spring. The month can convey large snowstorms to town and usually accounts for 20% of town’s annual snowfall.
Whereas March would be the snowiest month, it’s not the coldest. With a imply temperature of 40.4 levels, it is Denver’s fifth coldest month.
The month begins with a standard excessive of fifty levels and ends with a standard excessive of 58.
What was the warmest temperature recorded in Denver in March? That will be March 26, 1971, when it was a balmy 84 levels.
For low temperatures, the month begins with a standard of twenty-two levels and finishes with a standard of 30. The coldest in obtained in Denver in March was -11 levels on the twenty eighth day of 1886.
We usually see greater than 10 inches of snow on common in March, however the month can be recognized for the most important snowfall occasions within the area.
You don’t should go far to recollect the highest two snowiest months of March. They each occurred within the final 20 years, beginning with that large 2003 Denver blizzard that dropped heavy snow for days, shutting down town.
From March 17 by means of the nineteenth, the blizzard pounded Colorado, dumping 31.8” of snow in Denver and greater than 7 ft within the foothills, in keeping with the Nationwide Climate Service (NWS) in Boulder. Even in a metropolis used to a number of snow, there have been indicators throughout that it was simply an excessive amount of.
Buildings and roofs collapsed below the heavy weight, damaging a minimum of 258 constructions and shutting down Colorado roads and interstates for days.
The NWS reported that punishing wind gusts as much as 41 mph created snow drifts as much as 6 ft in elements of the Denver metro, and round 135,000 folks misplaced energy.
Denver Worldwide Airport was closed, stranding 4,000 passengers, the NWS reported. The long-lasting white tent roof on the airport was broken, forcing an evacuation of the principle constructing at DIA.
The snow totals simply added up throughout Colorado. That March snowstorm noticed some areas of the foothills accumulate over 7 ft of snow. Rollinsville in Gilpin County acquired 87.5 inches, and Winter Park measured 77.5 inches.
The 2003 March blizzard additionally dropped 50” of snow close to Golden and 40.3” in Aurora.
The second snowiest March occurred in 2021 when 34.0 inches fell on the Mile Excessive Metropolis. The majority of that 34 inches got here within the March 13-14 storm, which dumped 27.1 inches of snow on the airport, the place the official climate data are recorded.
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