(Accuweather) – The Mile High City has piled up three times its normal March snowfall total this month and is less than 3 inches away from having its snowiest March ever.
With an official 1 inch of snow that fell on Tuesday and another 0.6 of an inch that came down early Wednesday, Denver has now amassed 32.5 inches of snow this month, eclipsing the 1891 total of 31.3 inches in March of that year. March 2021 is now tied with 1944 for the second-snowiest March in the city’s history.
The city has a good chance of surpassing the shared 1944 total of 32.5 inches in the remaining days of the month and would need 2.8 inches of snow over the last week of March to top the all-time March record of 35.2 inches set in 2003.
The 32-plus inches of snow Denver International Airport has recorded so far this month is almost three times more than the 10.7 inches that falls in the city during a typical March.
A vast majority of this snow fell over the course of just two days when the fourth-biggest snowstorm in the city’s history unloaded 27.1 inches of snow. This historic storm, with the help of a few smaller snow events, propelled this month to the number four spot on the list of the snowiest Marches on record. READ MORE
