{"id":4442,"date":"2011-12-26T04:34:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T11:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2011-12-26T05:13:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T12:13:14","slug":"recent-snows-put-denver-snowfall-far-ahead-of-last-year-and-above-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/recent-snows-put-denver-snowfall-far-ahead-of-last-year-and-above-average\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent snows put Denver snowfall far ahead of last year and above average"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4443\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4443\" title=\"ThorntonWeather.com Snow Report\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/TW-Snow-Report-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ThorntonWeather.com Snow Report\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/TW-Snow-Report-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/TW-Snow-Report-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/TW-Snow-Report.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recent snows have put Denver ahead of the game on snow totals while the mountains remain drier than normal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While none of the snowstorms seen so far this year in Denver have been major ones, they have delivered the much needed snow that was missed last year.\u00a0 December&#8217;s snowfall totals will finish well above average and have helped put the city&#8217;s seasonal snowfall totals above normal\u00a0to date .<\/p>\n<p>December&#8217;s snowfall total for the month stands at 16.5 inches (20.1 inches in Thornton).\u00a0 This is nearly double the 1981 &#8211; 2010 historical average for the month of 8.5 inches.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stay up to date with Thornton&#8217;s weather:\u00a0\u2018Like\u2019 us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThorntonWeather\">Facebook<\/a>, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ThorntonWeather\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and add us to your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102594403520791765288\">Google+<\/a>\u00a0circles<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Leading up to Christmas, one storm slammed southeastern Colorado with blizzard conditions.\u00a0 A second storm took a more northern track delivering a shot of snow to northern Colorado (see image below).\u00a0 The snow cover ensured a white Christmas and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/weather-in-denver\/nasa-satellite-images-capture-a-snow-covered-colorado-picture\">NASA satellite imagery showed the Centennial State blanketed in white for the holiday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the season to date, the Mile High City has recorded 29.5 inches of snow (versus 34.6 inches in Thornton).\u00a0 This puts us ahead of the pace of the average of 22.5 inches that we normally see through the end of December.<\/p>\n<p>This stands in stark contrast to last season when Denver saw a paltry 22.8 inches of snow over the entire season and Thornton recorded 21.3 inches. \u00a0For comparison, in an average season we see 53.8 inches.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/snow-totals.php\">Denver and Thornton&#8217;s latest seasonal snow totals<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not all is well in Colorado however with the snow.\u00a0 While the plains are seeing above normal totals, the mountains are lagging.<\/p>\n<p>Some ski areas like Cooper Mountain near Leadville have yet to even open for the season.\u00a0 Others have had enough snow to allow skiers on their slopes but have runs that they have not yet been able to open due to the lack of snow. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/colorado-ski-report.php\">Get the latest ski area snow reports here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/snow-basins.php\">Snowpack across the state<\/a> is below average in seven of the eight major basins with only the Upper Rio Grande reporting above normal (101%).\u00a0 The South Platte basin which includes the Colorado Front Range mountains stands at only 85% of normal and Western Slope basins are seeing as little as 65% of normal.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Snowfall totals from Denver's December 21 - 22, 2011 snowstorm.\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-5rJ4I9wSBls\/TvhkXO8M0eI\/AAAAAAAAFko\/EGgIdl-5YXc\/s580\/2011-12-26_050956.jpg\" alt=\"Snowfall totals from Denver's December 21 - 22, 2011 snowstorm.\" width=\"580\" height=\"354\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowfall totals from Denver&#39;s December 21 - 22, 2011 snowstorm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While none of the snowstorms seen so far this year in Denver have been major ones, they have delivered the much needed snow that was missed last year.\u00a0 December&#8217;s snowfall totals will finish well above average and have helped put the city&#8217;s seasonal snowfall totals above normal\u00a0to date . December&#8217;s snowfall total for the month &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/recent-snows-put-denver-snowfall-far-ahead-of-last-year-and-above-average\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recent snows put Denver snowfall far ahead of last year and above average<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[156,547,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4449,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions\/4449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}