Snow totals for March 13-14, 2021 Colorado snowstorm
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Courtesy Carla Ambrose
More than 2 feet of snow had fallen in the Red Feather Lakes area by Sunday morning on March 14, 2021.
and last updated 2021-03-15 09:27:28-04
DENVER â The snowstorm arrived in earnest Saturday evening in Colorado and after heavy snow throughout Sunday, the storm has moved out of the state, leaving feet of snow in many areas.
The National Weather Service said Monday morning that 27.1 inches of snow have now been measured in this storm at Denver International Airport, where the official Denver snow records are tallied.
On Friday, March 2, 1990, a young, brash, confident meteorologist addressed the daily news editorial meeting at KCNC-TV (then “Colorado’s News Channel,” now “CBS4”) and stated that a blizzard would strike Colorado’s Front Range on Tuesday of the next week.
His declaration was met with skepticism bordering on pure disbelief. According to conventional wisdom, it was “impossible” to know Colorado’s weather more than one to two days in advance. Historically, that had been true: A young science, meteorology had been growing over the past century much like a puppy does from eight weeks to six months old.
Many of the essential physical and thermodynamic elements of weather were well understood during the first half of the twentieth century; the problem was how to “model” those behaviors into the future. The size of the atmosphere is mind-boggling. In just the lower parts, where most of our weather is formed, it’s roughly 854 million cubic miles in volume, moving at