Our look back at this week in Denver weather history carries with it one overriding condition – wind. In January it is not uncommon for us to experience Chinook winds which are a blessing and a curse. These winds bring warm temperatures which are welcome in our coldest month of the year. However they also […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Winds along the Front Range this time of year can be a blessing and a curse all at once. Chinook’s can warm temperatures well above what they normally would but they can also cause a great deal of damage when they are at their hardest. We see these contrasts in our look back at this […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Certainly cold and snow are to be expected in Denver in January and our look back at this week in Denver weather history has plenty notable events with those conditions. However, as we pointed out in our January weather preview, oftentimes it is the wind that is the real story. Powerful Chinook winds appear during the […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Winter wind in Colorado can be quite nasty oftentimes reaching damaging levels and we see numerous occurrences of that in our look back at this week in Denver weather history. Also notable are storm system just a few years ago in 2006 and 2007 that dumped a good amount of snow on the Denver area. […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Cold and snow dominate our look at the week leading up to the Christmas holiday. Certainly the infamous Christmas Eve Blizzard of 1982 is the one event that most long-time resident will remember as it was truly one for the history books. Also notable was a cold front that moved through in 1988 that dropped […]
Click here for the rest of the story.We all know weather can be dangerous but usually we don’t associate that with winter weather conditions. However, our look in Denver weather history for this week shows that the common winter conditions of wind and cold can not only cause injure, it can lead to death. 2-17 In 1939…more than 2 weeks of unseasonably […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Cold, snow and wind are the dominant conditions we see in our look back at this week in Denver weather history. All three are common this time of year and extremes with those conditions seem to be unusually common as well. 25-28 In 1952…the average coldest 4-day period in November in the previous 81 years […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Weather is a big part of the holidays. With many people hitting the road to visit friends and family the weather can make or break those holiday plans. Our look back at this week in Denver weather history shows a number of Thanksgivings when the weather put a damper on travel plans. 19-21 In 1979…a […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Henry Fenton is probably not a name many folks are familiar with however he will forever be engrained in the Denver weather history books. It was 150 years ago this week that Fenton made the first official Denver weather observations. From the National Weather Service: 10 – 14: In 2014…an Arctic cold front on the […]
Click here for the rest of the story.Wind is always a factor on the plains and the fall usually brings a great deal of it, especially in November. Our look back at this week in Denver weather history shows that event and snow are quite common this time of year. From the National Weather Service: From the 5th to the 7th: In […]
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