On the last day of February (the 29th) in 1912, the Denver Post ran a roundup story of the month’s snowy weather records. Today, February 27, 2015, the city has a new record of 22.2″ of snowfall for the month, breaking that of 1912.
It’s fun to turn back the pages — and the clock– and enjoy the news coverage as if it was happening today.
Here’s the headline:
And the best of the 1912 story:
“All records for snowfall have been broken by the fall this month. Twenty-two and one-tenth inches have fallen during the month, the greatest fall ever recorded by the weather bureau since it began its present system of records, in 1885.
The greatest snowfall in twenty-four hours ever recorded also occurred this month between 6 p.m. February 23 and 6 p.m. February 24. On the evening of February 25 there was 12.8 inches of snow on the ground, which breaks still another record, the next greatest amount which the weather man can show in his books being 10 inches on February 23, 1909.”
