Thanks in part to last week’s blockbuster snowstorm, Denver finished with its snowiest November since 1994 and its coldest since 2000.
November finished with 13.7 inches of snowfall, based on observations at Denver International Airport, the city’s official climate data site. That’s nearly double Denver’s average monthly snowfall of 7.5 inches for November.
Denver’s more centrally-located Stapleton Airport weather observation site recorded 14 inches of snowfall in November, the snowiest November there since 2015.
Through the end of November, Denver had already seen nearly half of its full season average annual snowfall. With 26.2 inches of season snowfall so far this winter season, Denver was running more than twice above the season-to-date average of 12.7 inches. It’s also the snowiest start to a winter season in Denver since 2009.
Of course, all that snow can largely tie back to last week’s 9.5-inch snowfall, the biggest overall snowstorm in the city in over three years. That snow event alone accounts for more than a third of Denver’s snowfall so far this winter.
With an average monthly temperature of 36.2 degrees, Denver also recorded its coldest November since 2000 (2014 also had an average November temperature of 36.2). This is also Denver’s coldest first 11 months of a year since 1997.
December could feature more snowier weather along the Front Range and throughout the state. The Climate Prediction Center’s (CPC) outlook for the month of December puts all of Colorado in the zone of higher chances for a wetter-than-average December. Though Colorado is also in the CPC’s warmer-than-average zone, an overall wetter outlook this time of the year typically translates to extra snowfall.
