Denver has not recorded a high temperature below freezing yet this winter and that has never happened before. It will be our coldest day of the season so far. Thanks to new snow on the ground, Saturday afternoon highs will not break out of the teens. For everyone, wind chill values - what it actually feels like on your skin - will be in the 0- to -20-degree range. Temperatures in Colorado Springs will be in the mid-teens Saturday morning. Saturday morning temperatures should bottom out between 5 to 10 degrees, from Fort Collins to Castle Rock. Those out celebrating the New Year will be faced with some bitter cold. By midnight, temperatures will be well into the lower to mid-teens. This will bring temperatures from the 40s in and around Denver down into the teens and 20s in the early afternoon. We haven’t seen cold like this since way early in the year and have definitely not seen temperatures like this yet this season.Ī cold front will drop down from Wyoming on Friday morning. Coldįirst off, the cold that is coming with this storm is going to be pretty intense. Here are the details on the incoming snow and cold for New Year. While some of the snow that is coming will fall on the last day of this month, we will still end the month with below-average snowfall. This season has only produced 0.3 inches of snow thus far - well behind the normal 20-plus inches we should have by the end of December. It’s been quite some time since we’ve talked about a big snowstorm in Denver and while this won’t be a chart-topping storm, it will produce the most snow we’ve seen this winter and sub-zero temperatures.Ī strong trough digging into the Pacific Northwest will conjoin with a weak disturbance near the southern California coast to bring the Front Range its first substantial snow of the season. Thanks to a New Year’s Eve snowstorm, we ended December with almost half of the normal precipitation that is expected but that snowstorm is what kicked off January on a good note.Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu Through December, our dry woes continued with below-normal precipitation falling for the month. The extremely dry conditions over an extended time period only exacerbated our deepening drought. Each of those months, less than a tenth of an inch of moisture fell for the entire month. October and November provided Denver with hardly anything measurable. ![]() June, July and August are some of our wettest months of the year but the recent June through August stretch was anything but wet. Notably, June through December was Denver’s driest last six months of the year on record. After a very wet spring, summer quickly came with dry weather that stayed put through the end of the year. It has been exceptionally dry across Denver since last June. After a bit of a lull in the middle of the month, we snagged another round of snow which gave us enough moisture to surpass what is typically expected for the entire month. ![]() Just a few days later, another round of snow brought a decent amount of moisture with it. January came in strong as snow was falling from New Year’s Eve to New Year’s Day. Things haven’t quite turned around yet but we at least have officially ended our streak of months with below-average moisture. RELATED: Denver weather: Another round of snow coming Thursday Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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