February will go down history as Denver’s least snowiest on record, the National Weather Service said Sunday.
The official monitoring site at Denver International Airport recorded less than one-tenth of an inch of snow last month, the least recorded since Colorado snowfall records began in 1882.
The record replaces February 1992 and 1970, when only three-tenths of an inch was recorded in the city.
The site received a little rain, however, to net four-tenths of an inch, making it the fourth-driest February on record, tying 1954, 1925 and 1908.
Typically March is Colorado’s snowiest month, but March 2008 was the third driest on record. Last year just 5.4 inches of snow fell, or 6.3 inches below normal.
March 2003 was the snowiest on record with 35.2 inches.
Still, heavy snow in northern Colorado pushed the Platte River basin’s snowfall to 98 percent of its 30-year average, including Denver’s paltry contribution.
The statewide snowpack is 112 percent of average, led by the Colorado River basin at 118 percent of average and basin of Yampa and White rivers at 114 percent, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Lakewood, which measures the state’s snowpack.
