Ask anyone who grew up in or around Denver about Halloween, and you’ll probably hear about trick-or-treating in a snowsuit with the princess costume hidden under a puffy coat. It’s one of the Front Range’s favorite stories. 9NEWS checked the record books, though, and Halloween snow is mostly a myth. Denver has had snow pile up on Halloween only 16 times in 139 years, which works out to about 12 percent of the time.
Even when it does snow, it usually isn’t much. Of those 16 snowy Halloweens, only four got more than 3 inches. The big exception was 1972. Denver got 8 inches of snow on Halloween, the high only reached 30 degrees, and another 5.8 inches fell the next day. That’s still the snowiest Halloween on record, and it’s probably why your parents still talk about it…