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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO
259 AM MST FRI DEC 26 2025
..TODAY IN METRO DENVER WEATHER HISTORY
25-26 IN 1904...AFTER A WARM CHRISTMAS DAY WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE
OF 50 DEGREES...A LATE DAY COLD FRONT PLUNGED TEMPERATURES
TO A LOW OF 7 DEGREES...PRODUCED NORTHEAST WINDS SUSTAINED
TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 54 MPH...AND PRODUCED 5.2 INCHES OF
SNOW OVERNIGHT FOR A LATE WHITE CHRISTMAS. THE MAXIMUM
TEMPERATURE ON THE 26TH WAS ONLY 16 DEGREES.
IN 2014...A WINTER STORM BROUGHT A RARE CHRISTMAS DAY
SNOWFALL TO THE FRONT RANGE FOOTHILLS AND URBAN CORRIDOR...
FROM THE AFTERNOON OF THE 25TH TO THE EVENING OF THE 26TH.
STORM TOTALS INCLUDED: 12.5 INCHES...4 MILES WEST OF BOULDER;
12 INCHES...4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELDORADO SPRINGS AND 4
MILES SOUTH OF GOLDEN; 11 INCHES AT GENESEE; 10 INCHES NEAR
ALLENSPARK...5 MILES WEST OF CHATFIELD RESERVOIR...5 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF GOLDEN AND NEAR TINY TOWN; 8 INCHES IN LAKEWOOD
AND LOUISVILLE; 7.5 INCHES IN NIWOT; 7 INCHES IN LONGMONT;
WITH 6 INCHES IN BROOMFIELD AND FREDERICK. AT DENVER
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...5.1 INCHES OF SNOWFALL WAS OBSERVED.
25-31 IN 1980...TEMPERATURES WERE UNUSUALLY WARM DURING THE WEEK
BETWEEN CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S. HIGH TEMPERATURES FOR
THE WEEK RANGED FROM THE MID-50'S TO THE MID-70'S. FOUR
TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE SET. RECORD HIGHS OCCURRED ON
THE 26TH WITH 68 DEGREES...THE 27TH WITH 75 DEGREES...AND
THE 30TH WITH 71 DEGREES. A RECORD HIGH MINIMUM
TEMPERATURE OF 41 DEGREES OCCURRED ON THE 27TH.
26 IN 1877...HEAVY SNOW FELL DURING THE EARLY MORNING AND
TOTALED NEARLY 6 INCHES. PRECIPITATION FROM MELTED
SNOW WAS 0.58 INCH. AFTER THE SNOWFALL...A NUMBER OF
SLEIGHS WERE SEEN ON THE CITY STREETS.
IN 1879...AFTER A MORNING LOW OF 4 DEGREES BELOW ZERO...
THE TEMPERATURE CLIMBED TO A HIGH OF 57 DEGREES IN
THE CITY.
IN 1907...WEST WINDS WERE SUSTAINED TO 40 MPH. THE CHINOOK
WINDS WARMED THE TEMPERATURE TO A HIGH OF 62 DEGREES.
IN 1949...WEST WINDS GUSTED TO 50 MPH AT STAPLETON AIRPORT.
IN 1998...INTENSE...BUT LOCALIZED...DOWNSLOPE HIGH WINDS
DEVELOPED NEAR WONDERVU IN THE FOOTHILLS SOUTHWEST
OF BOULDER. WINDS FREQUENTLY GUSTED TO 100 MPH WITH
A HIGHEST REPORTED WIND GUST TO 104 MPH. WEST WINDS
GUSTED TO ONLY 43 MPH AT DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
26-27 IN 1954...A MAJOR STORM DUMPED HEAVY SNOW ACROSS METRO DENVER.
SNOWFALL TOTALED 8.6 INCHES AT STAPLETON AIRPORT. THE
STORM PRODUCED THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL OF THE CALENDAR YEAR
AND WAS THE ONLY MEASURABLE SNOWFALL IN DECEMBER.
IN 1987...A SNOWSTORM STALLED IN NORTHEASTERN COLORADO...GIVING
METRO DENVER ITS WORST WINTER STORM IN 4 YEARS. TOTAL
SNOWFALL FROM THE STORM RANGED FROM 12 TO 18 INCHES ON THE
EAST SIDE...1 TO 2 FEET IN BOULDER COUNTY...AND 2 TO 3 FEET
IN WESTERN AND SOUTHERN PARTS OF METRO DENVER. THE
LARGEST REPORTED SNOWFALL WAS 42 INCHES AT INTERCANYON IN
THE FOOTHILLS SOUTHWEST OF DENVER. SNOWFALL TOTALED 14.9
INCHES AT STAPLETON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. WINDS WERE LIGHT
ON THE 26TH...BUT INCREASED AS HIGH AS 40 MPH ON THE 27TH...
CREATING NEAR-BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AND FORCING COMPLETE
CLOSURE OF STAPLETON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FOR ABOUT
8 HOURS. THE STRONG WINDS WHIPPED DRIFTS TO 5 FEET HIGH
ON THE EAST SIDE OF TOWN. ALL INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS LEADING
FROM DENVER WERE CLOSED ON THE 27TH.
26-28 IN 1979 A HEAVY SNOW STORM DUMPED 6 TO 10 INCHES OF SNOW OVER
THE METRO AREA AND 15 TO 20 INCHES AT BOULDER WITH UP TO 2
FEET IN THE FOOTHILLS WEST OF BOULDER. HEAVY SNOWFALL
TOTALED 6.0 INCHES AT STAPLETON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
WHERE NORTH WINDS GUSTED TO 21 MPH. MOST OF THE SNOW...
4.8 INCHES...FELL ON THE 27TH.
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