March is typically Denver’s snowiest month, but snowfall in the city this year didn’t live up to expectations.
The city received 5.1 inches of snowfall in March, . Denver normally collects 11.5 inches of snow in March, typically making it the snowiest month of the season in the city. The snowiest day this past month was March 25, with a meager 2.2 inches of snow.
Seasonally, April is typically the second snowiest month in Denver, averaging 8.8 inches, with December coming in third, averaging 8 inches, according to the weather service.
Below-average snowfall in March dropped the city’s 2022-2023 overall seasonal average below normal, according to the weather service. At the end of March, Denver had 46.4 inches of snow this season. Typically when the month wraps up, Denver has 46.7 inches of snow.
So far in the 2022-2023 season, Denver received 10.9 inches of snow in November,13 inches in both December and January, and 4.7 inches in February.
“We got off to a good start this season, especially in January, but we’ve fallen behind,” said David Barjenbruch, a meteorologist with the weather service.
While the snow volume fell off in Denver, cold weather intensified. The average monthly mean temperature in Denver in March is 41.6 degrees. March of 2023 finished with an average mean near 35.9 degrees, 5.7 degrees below the overall monthly average.
March 2023 was the fifth-consecutive month with a below-average monthly temperature in Denver, Barjenbruch said. The last period in Denver with five consecutive months of below-normal average temperature was June through October of 2009.
The warmest day in the month was March 15, with a high temperature of 71 degrees. The lowest temperature in the month was 13 degrees, recorded on both March 18 and 28.
April in Denver, like March, is considered a transitional weather month, and “fast-changing” weather can be expected. Precipitation in April is typically recorded as rainfall, but snow, sometimes heavy snow, is not out of the question.
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