If water is the essence of life, then snow is its most playful expression. Consider the wackiness of snow: It’s one of nature’s most fragile compositions, yet its heft can cause great damage. Each flake so tiny—often .05 inch—but from one comes large swaths of blizzards! And while it’s certainly wet, fresh snow is 90% […]
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Photos: Denver sees first snowfall after breaking 87-year-old record
Story by The Associated Press Photos by Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun Denver finally saw its first snowfall of the season on Friday, shattering an 87-year-old record for the latest first snow. It wasn’t much: The official measurement at the Denver International Airport was three-tenths of an inch, according to Jim Kalina, a meteorologist with […]
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PHOTOS: Short on powder, Colorado’s ski resorts let snowmakers rip
Ski resorts across the country are leaning more heavily on snowmaking guns as warmer, shorter winters threaten a business model based on snow. In Colorado, the reliance on man-made snow has been essential to the start of the 2021-22 ski season, with all of the state’s 13 major river basins reporting precipitation through November well […]
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Yes, it hasn’t snowed yet in Denver. But it’s Colorado’s meager snowpack that should worry you.
Snowflakes began falling in Denver on Dec. 1, 1913, and didn’t stop for four days, leaving the city blanketed under 45 inches of snow. Some mountain towns saw even more snowfall, with 86 inches recorded in Georgetown, 53 in Estes Park and about 44 in Boulder. The anniversary of Denver’s biggest blizzard comes amid a […]
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Wolf Creek Ski Area plans to kick off Colorado’s ski season on Saturday; A-Basin opens Sunday
Wolf Creek Ski area in southwest Colorado is planning to kick of the state’s 2021-22 ski season this weekend. The resort said it will be open Saturday and Sunday. The beginner Nova Lift and the Lynx Lift will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Wolf Creek will then reopen weekends until Mother Nature […]
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Early winter storm brings snow to Rocky Mountains as Colorado ski resorts prepare to open
BILLINGS, Mont. — An early winter storm is forecast to bring the first heavy snowfall of the season to portions of the U.S. Rocky Mountains this week. The National Weather Service on Monday issued winter storm warnings for large areas of Wyoming and southern Montana. The warnings were in effect through midday Wednesday. Up to […]
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Nicolais: April snow showers always throw me for a loop
Last Saturday I laid sod in my yard as the temperatures rose through the 60s and touched 70. This weekend I will be staring out over the area covered in a blanket of snow. There may be nothing to signal spring in Colorado like a late snowstorm. I am a Colorado native and have been […]
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Eagle County man died after being swept off cliff near Beaver Creek, final avalanche report says
A final report by the Colorado Avalanche Information Center has revealed that a man who died after being caught in a small avalanche in Colorado last month was swept over a 75-foot (23-meter) cliff. Eagle County resident Gary Smith and a partner were skiing on a steep slope in the backcountry near Beaver Creek Resort […]
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Weekend snowstorm, at 27.1 inches, was Denver’s 4th largest dating back 140 years
The weekend snowstorm that pounded Colorado was the fourth largest in Denver’s 140-year recorded weather history, according to the National Weather Service in Boulder. Just over 27 inches of snow fell at Denver International Airport between Saturday and Sunday, eclipsing all but three storms recorded in the Mile High City since 1881. Only the following […]
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Denver International Airport shuts down its runways, I-70 through the mountains is closed as heavy snow pounds Colorado
Denver International Airport shut down its runways on Sunday and Interstate 70 through the Colorado mountains was closed as a major storm dropping wet, heavy snow pounded the Rocky Mountain region. The effects of the storm are spilling into the work week, with the Colorado legislature announcing it won’t meet on Monday because of the […]