A May snowstorm forced schools across the metro Denver area to close Wednesday — the first snow day of the school year.

Most districts said their last snow day was Nov. 8, 2024, when the first major storm of the season that year dumped nearly 3 feet of snow across large sections of the Front Range.

None could recall a May closure.

“We don’t keep records of school closure dates and I can’t find anyone who remembers a snow closure in May,” Scott Pribble, a Denver Public Schools spokesperson, said in an email.

Paula Hans, a Douglas County School District spokesperson, agreed.

“While we have had a number of weather closures as late as mid-April, we have not had a districtwide closure for weather in May in recent years,” Hans said in an email.

The storm hit unevenly.

The Denver metro area, especially Boulder, and northern Colorado were hit the hardest as a system moved in Tuesday evening, dropping the most significant snowfall in months.

Cities across the Denver metro region received between 5 and 12 inches, according to the National Weather Service.

The storm offered a brief boost, but is unlikely to change concerns about the state’s historically low snowpack.

Mountain snowpack acts as a natural reservoir, supplying water to Colorado and other Western states as it melts.

This year’s snowpack is among the worst on record, raising the risk of water shortages from Denver to Las Vegas.

Denver Water — which depends on snowpack for a water supply that serves roughly one in four Coloradans — declared a Stage 1 drought in March to preserve water levels and avoid stricter restrictions this summer.

Other cities — Arvada, Aurora, Boulder, Golden and Thornton — have already followed suit.