COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – Historically, March 12 through March 18 is the week we typically see the most blizzards statewide. That’s obviously not the case for 2026, but the 11 Alert Weather Team took a look back in the National Weather Service’s archives for the highest-performing snowstorms in history.
Some of these were outside of that timeframe, too. In November 2024, southern Colorado saw two to six feet of snow across the region. In October 1997, there were snow drifts of almost nine feet with almost 10 inches of accumulation at the Colorado Springs Airport, and in March 2019, there was a bomb cyclone that dropped 16″ of snow in some areas with 96 MPH wind gusts.
Colin Gore, a Colorado Springs resident of 53 years, told us, “That cyclone blizzard, that was the most memorable one.”…