Denver gets first snowfall after breaking 87-year-old record

Denver yet got its archetypal snowfall of the season, shattering an 87-year-old grounds for the latest archetypal snow.

It wasn't much: The authoritative measurement connected Friday astatine Denver International Airport was conscionable three-tenths of an inch.

Jim Kalina, meteorologist with the National Weather Service successful Boulder, says the Denver metro portion is experiencing an extended La Nina upwind pattern. That tends to nutrient drier upwind conditions.

The conditions besides travel arsenic overmuch of Western U.S. is experiencing a megadrought that studies nexus to human-caused clime change.

Before Friday, the Mile High City's latest measurable snowfall was connected Nov. 21, 1934.

While Denver received little than an inch of snow, the surrounding mountains saw their archetypal large snowfall of the season.

Aspen, Silverton, Telluride and Crested Butte each reported much than a ft of snow. On apical of the snow, overmuch of Colorado is nether upwind warnings that volition agelong into Saturday.