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First measured snowfall will now be Denver’s second-latest or latest ever

By November 22, 2025 | updated 2 months ago

Rebecca Walker and Pete Schmidt walk 15-year-old blue heeler Rocket around Smith Lake during morning snowfall on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021, at Washington Park in Denver, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/The Gazette)

Denver officially passed the previous second-latest date for its first measurable snowfall of the year Saturday, making this season’s first snow either the second-latest or latest on record.

Nov. 21, 1934 previously marked the second-latest date on record for Denver International Airport to receive its first measurable snowfall, or any accumulation greater than one-tenth of an inch, of the season. The latest date on record is the 2021 mark of Dec. 10 — just 18 days after Saturday.

“A persistent ridge of high pressure is generally rule number one that keeps us drier and warmer, and that’s what we’ve seen a lot of this fall,” a National Weather Service spokesperson said Saturday. “It’s not terribly abnormal, we do have a lot of dry, fall weather here in Colorado. But when it becomes persistent, that’s when we start developing drought conditions.”

The spokesperson added that the next chance for significant snowfall may be next weekend, as temperatures are trending cooler and long-range models are forecasting a potential storm. Temperatures in the area are expected to drop next week, with daily highs in the low-40s and nightly lows in the low-20s.

As of Saturday, Denver has currently gone 217 days since its last measurable snowfall, the six-longest recorded streak in history, the spokesperson noted. That streak will move into fifth place if the city doesn’t receive any measurable snowfall by Monday; it will then move into fourth if the city still doesn’t be Wednesday.

The longest recorded streak without measurable snow is 232 days, a tie between that 2021 record and a streak set in 1887, the spokesperson said. Denver would have to remain without recorded snowfall until Dec. 7 to break that record.

Michael Braithwaite

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