Wet and heavy snow that fell in the area of Fort Collins between 7 p.m. on Friday and 7 p.m. on Saturday helped to set a pretty remarkable weather record this weekend. For starters, the 1.66 inches of precipitation easily became the wettest single 24-hour February period on record for the area. Even more impressive – that 1.66 inches of precipitation was more precipitation than any previous entire month of February in Fort Collins, according to the Colorado Climate Center out of Colorado State University. The previous February precipitation record was 1.65 inches for the entire month, set in February 1912.