At least one forecast is calling for big snow to hit Denver come March – and while that might sound absolutely outlandish during a year where the snowpack has spent quite a bit of time at record lows, the prediction of 14″ of snow over a seven-day stretch (or 10″ over three days) in the Mile High City is hardly noteworthy from a historical standpoint.
For starters, 16.5 inches of snow or more has fallen 10 times during a single day in Denver since records started in 1882. Four of those dates were in December, two of those dates were in April, and four of those dates were in March, including the March 14 storm of 2021 that dropped 19.9 inches of snow on the Mile High City over just 24 hours (3rd-highest single-day snowfall for Denver overall).
The 14-inch forecast related to incoming weather isn’t talking about a single-day storm, either. It’s talking about multiple rounds of multi-day snowfall, one of which might bring 10 inches over three days. To put that in perspective, the 20 largest snowstorms that have hit Denver since 1882 have all hit with 17.3 inches of snow or more. The second-largest storm in Denver history was a three-day storm in March 2003, which dropped more than three times what’s forecast to hit between March 6 and March 8 at 31.8 inches…