![]() ![]() "Slow to ramp up Saturday, storm makes itself known on Sunday," the state Transportation Department tweeted Sunday afternoon. The Colorado Department of Transportation reported a slew of highway closures, including swaths of Interstate 70 that runs east to west across the state. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center set the avalanche risk as high, warning of "very dangerous avalanche conditions." "Wind gusts of 30-40 mph will cause some blowing and drifting snow."Īirlines issue waivers for Colorado airports: Winter Storm Xylia "Total snow accumulations of 12-24 inches for the Interstate 25 corridor and up to 3-4 feet in the northern foothills," the National Weather Service warned. A foot of snow had fallen in Denver, and more was on the way. Bring on summer.In Colorado, some areas already had almost 30 inches of snow by noon Sunday. Denver officially recorded 80.2 inches of snow, close to 2-feet above normal, which landed the city in one of the top 20 snowiest winters on record. Overall, it was a very impressive snow season for much of northeast Colorado thanks to the late-season snows. 7 ESE Steamboat Springs – 145.9”20S Steamboat Springs – 120.4” SUMMIT COUNTYĪll of these reports came from the Skywarn Colorado Spotter Team and are verified by the National Weather Service in Boulder. ![]() Collins – 57.2” PARK COUNTYġNE Crow Hill – 135.3”NE Bailey – 120.4” PHILLIPS COUNTY Mary’s Glacier – 285.4” DENVER COUNTYĭenver International Airport – 80.2”Denver Stapleton – 78.7” DOUGLAS COUNTYģENE Castle Rock – 94.1”SW Castle Pines – 74.6”1.5 SE Lone Tree – 88.9” EL PASO COUNTYģ.8W Black Forest – 127.1”.5 S Monument Hill – 139.0” ELBERT COUNTYģ.5 NW Arvada – 99.5”1SW Evergreen – 105.3”3N Conifer – 168.0”Coal Creek Canyon – 157.0”Genesee – 167.5”Lakewood – 85.0”3N Golden Gate Canyon State Park – 249.4”Windy Point – 138.5”Ken Caryl – 78.8” LARIMER COUNTYĢN Loveland – 82.8”Ft. On top of this, we were under the influence of La Niña which has proven to bring less-than-normal snows to our area in years past.Įldorado Springs – 132.8”3E Nederland – 194.4”Niwot – 75.9”2SE Longmont – 79.8” CLEAR CREEK COUNTY This pretty much solidified to a lot of folks that this snow season was going to be an under-performer. Then came December when we, again, saw below-average snowfall for the month. ![]() We were coming off of a very dry summer where drought was expanding and heading into winter, where not much precipitation falls, the concern of the drought expanding and worsening was a real possibility. We saw pretty average snow in September and October, but by November, we started falling behind normal and that had a lot of folks worried. ![]() This year’s snow season started off rather slowly. Although, the official amount of snow that is typically expected in June is a trace, not zero, so we can’t say that we are definitely done with snow but the last time we had measurable snow in June was way back in 1918 so our odds are looking good. Now that it’s June, Denver has reached a point where accumulating snow is no longer normal during the month. Considering how it ended, we wanted to make sure that no more snow was expected before talking about Colorado snow totals in and around Denver for the 2020-21 season. ![]()
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