Hundreds Of Flights At Denver International Airport Impacted By Colorado Snowstorm
After a snowstorm Wednesday night into Thursday morning, a number of flights were canceled at Denver International Airport.
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After a snowstorm Wednesday night into Thursday morning, a number of flights were canceled at Denver International Airport.
Most neighborhoods along the Front Range received at least 3 inches of fluffy snow through Wednesday night while some areas had much more.
The Denver metro area and northeastern Colorado got walloped with snow on Wednesday night into Thursday morning, and it led to icy roads and school closures.
Friday's total at DIA amounted to 0.3 inches, which meets the threshold for an accumulating snow.
After weeks without snow some much needed precipitation fell across Colorado.
People in the Denver metro area welcomed flakes of fluffy snow at daybreak.
The first widespread mountain snow of the season is on the way to Colorado and in some areas it could end up being several inches.
The first big storm of the fall season was brewing a few thousand miles away from Colorado Friday morning.
One of the first genuine cold fronts of the season moved over Colorado Sunday night causing up to 2 inches of snow in the higher mountains. Denver has been mainly dry but much cooler.
In addition to all of the severe weather in the last 24 hours our latest storm system also brought in colder temperatures with it. Cold enough to dust many peaks with Summer Snow!
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A vigorous storm system moving across Colorado will continue to bring rain and snow to the state on Wednesday after causing the first severe weather of the year on Tuesday.
One of the strongest storms of the season will cross Colorado on Tuesday and Wednesday bringing 1-2 inches of rain to lower elevations and more than a foot of snow to some mountain areas.
Denver is now in the snowiest season since 1984 and breaks into the top 10 for all-time snowiest seasons!
It will continue to look and feel like winter with much colder than normal temperatures and scattered flurries and light snow showers.
After a relatively dry fall and winter, Mother Nature turned things around for Denver and Colorado's Front Range during early February and hasn't looked back.
Most areas along Colorado's Front Range received 2 to 7 inches of snow.
The most recent April snowstorm to hit Colorado brought more than a foot of snow to the foothills of Boulder County.
Xcel Energy reported about 3,400 customers without power in the Denver metro area.
The snow was heavy enough to break tree limbs and down power lines in some areas.
The official snow total in Denver from the most recent storm to hit Colorado was 5.7 inches. The season total is now 73.3 inches which is almost two feet above normal and we're not done!
The best chance for rain showers in Denver is 2-6 p.m. with decreasing chances through midnight. There's also a possibility of some snowflakes.
March 2021 will go down in the history books as colder and much snowier than normal. In fact, Denver missed the all-time snow record for March by about an inch.
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