Temperatures likely will hit a high of 37 during the day Monday and drop to the low 20s during the night.Īirlines canceled hundreds of flights scheduled to leave DIA on Sunday as the storm intensified, though about 10 planes did manage to take off early in the morning. Snowfall was forecast to continue into early Monday morning, stopping around 5 a.m., Kalina said. The blizzard led Denver Public Schools and many other metro area districts - including Douglas County, Adams 12, Cherry Creek and Littleton - to declare snow days on Monday, while a smaller number, such as Jeffco Public Schools, announced students would take remote-learning classes for the day.Ī full list of school closures can be found at . Reppert noted that Nederland reported about 36 inches of snowfall and that some areas will likely “see close to 40 inches by the time it’s all said and done.” In that time he anticipated another 2 to 5 inches of snowfall in the metro area. Kalina expected those blizzard conditions to continue until about midnight Sunday. That means as the snow fell, winds accelerated to at least 35 mph and reduced visibility beyond a quarter mile for longer than three hours. While snow began falling Saturday night, the storm reached blizzard conditions around noon Sunday, said meteorologist Jim Kalina with the National Weather Service in Boulder. “Definitely something that we can thankfully look at as a very rare occurrence.” “This has definitely been a historic storm,” said Alan Reppert, senior meteorologist with AccuWeather. That total just beat the 23.8 inches of snow that fell on Denver in December 1982, and is the city’s biggest snowfall since 31.8 inches fell in March 2003. Sunday - with snow still expected to fall for several more hours. The weekend snowstorm became the fourth-largest ever recorded in Denver with 24.1 inches of snow at the city’s official measurement point at Denver International Airport as of 6 p.m. A historic blizzard that blasted Colorado on Sunday dumped 2 feet of snow in the Denver area, knocked out power to tens of thousands of people, stranded others in their vehicles, shut down major roadways and will leave many schools and government offices closed Monday.
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