For the second straight month, temperatures finished well below average in Denver, and snowfall finished above normal as well.
An average monthly temperature of 35.1 degrees made it Denver’s coldest March since 2002, and a full 5.3 degrees below the monthly average of 40.4 degrees. This is based on preliminary information
The cold month was largely due to a bitter cold snap the first week of March. The following week, the so-called bomb cyclone also kept temperatures well below average. The second half of the month, on the other hand, behaved a bit more typically, with interchanging warm and cold spells slowly allowing monthly temperatures to gradually recover closer to seasonable levels.
Thanks to the 7.1 inches of snowfall from the bomb cyclone, Denver finished its typically snowiest month of the year with an above-average total. The 12.9 inches of total March snowfall made it the snowiest March since 2016, when another big blizzard jacked up monthly totals. With February snapping Denver’s 25-month below-average snowfall skid, seasonal snow totals have recovered to near-typical levels for the beginning of April, although Denver’s official snowfall is still slightly below normal.
This is a continuation of what’s been an active winter overall for the Front Range and statewide. All three months so far in 2019 have finished with above-average precipitation in Denver, helping wipe away most of Colorado’s drought.
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April’s outlook appears to turn warmer and perhaps wetter, although the fourth month of the year is also Denver’s second snowiest, .
Chris Bianchi is a meteorologist for WeatherNation TV.
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