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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT  
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO  
259 AM MDT MON OCT 13 2025  
   
..TODAY IN METRO DENVER WEATHER HISTORY
 
 
11-13 IN 1892...FROM THE 11TH TO THE 13TH...APPARENT POST-FRONTAL  
RAINFALL TOTALED 3.33 INCHES IN DOWNTOWN DENVER OVER THE  
3-DAY PERIOD. A TRACE OF SNOW ON THE 12TH MELTED AS IT  
FELL. RAINFALL OF 2.58 INCHES ON THE 12TH INTO THE 13TH  
WAS THE GREATEST 24-HOUR PRECIPITATION EVER RECORDED  
DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER. NORTHWEST WINDS WERE  
SUSTAINED TO 48 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 55 MPH ON  
THE 12TH.  
12-13 IN 2001...OVERNIGHT FROM THE 12TH TO THE 13TH...PEAK WIND  
GUSTS TO 82 MPH AND 70 MPH WERE MEASURED ATOP NIWOT  
RIDGE AND SQUAW MOUNTAIN...RESPECTIVELY.  
12-14 IN 1969...FROM THE 12TH TO THE 14TH...RECORD BREAKING  
EXTREMELY COLD TEMPERATURES FOR SO EARLY IN THE SEASON  
OCCURRED. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 26 DEGREES ON THE 13TH  
WAS TWO DEGREES LOWER THAN THE PREVIOUS RECORD MINIMUM  
TEMPERATURE OF 28 DEGREES FOR THE DATE SET IN 1885. THE  
HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 24 DEGREES ON THE 12TH EXCEEDED THE  
RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE (22 DEGREES SET IN 1885) FOR THE  
DATE BY ONLY 2 DEGREES. IN ADDITION...3 NEW RECORD LOW  
TEMPERATURES FOR THE DATES WERE SET. THE LOW  
TEMPERATURE DIPPED TO 10 DEGREES ON THE 12TH BREAKING  
THE OLD RECORD (22 DEGREES IN 1885) BY 12 DEGREES. ON  
THE 13TH THE MERCURY PLUNGED TO A LOW OF 3 DEGREES  
BREAKING THE OLD RECORD (28 DEGREES IN 1885) BY 25  
DEGREES. ON THE 14TH THE TEMPERATURE REACHED A MINIMUM  
OF 4 DEGREES BREAKING THE OLD RECORD (25 DEGREES IN 1966)  
BY 21 DEGREES.  
13 IN 1990...STRONG DOWNSLOPE WINDS STIRRED UP CLOUDS OF DUST AND  
GRAVEL...RATTLED WINDOWS...AND STRIPPED AUTUMN-COLORED LEAVES  
FROM TREES IN BOULDER. A WIND GUST TO 78 MPH WAS CLOCKED  
IN SOUTHWEST BOULDER...WHILE A 96 MPH GUST WAS RECORDED IN  
NORTHWEST BOULDER. WEST WINDS GUSTED TO ONLY 36 MPH AT  
STAPLETON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.  
13-14 IN 1910...THE 13TH THROUGH THE 14TH...LIGHT SMOKE FROM NEARBY  
FOREST FIRES DRIFTED OVER THE CITY.  
IN 1966...THE FIRST MEASURABLE SNOW OF THE SEASON CAUSED  
WIDESPREAD DAMAGE TO TREES AND SHRUBS. THE HEAVY WET SNOW  
TOTALED 6.9 INCHES AT STAPLETON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT  
WHERE NORTH-NORTHWEST WINDS SUSTAINED AT 20 TO 25 MPH AND  
GUSTING TO 45 MPH CAUSED MUCH BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.  
SOUTH AND EAST OF DENVER...UP TO A FOOT OF SNOW FELL. HEAVY  
WET SNOW ACCUMULATIONS FOLLOWED BY FREEZING TEMPERATURES AND  
STRONG WINDS RESULTED IN EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO TREES...CARS...  
AND UTILITY LINES BY FALLING LIMBS. A WOMAN WAS KILLED BY  
A FALLING SNOW LADEN TREE LIMB IN DENVER. SEVERAL OTHER  
PEOPLE RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES FROM FALLING TREE LIMBS.  
IN 1987...RAIN DRENCHED METRO DENVER. THE SOUTH PLATTE CANYON  
AREA SOUTHWEST OF DENVER RECEIVED THE MOST WITH 1.11  
INCHES AT KASSLER AND 1.49 INCHES UPSTREAM AT STRONTIA  
SPRINGS. AT STAPLETON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...0.62 INCH  
OF RAIN WAS MEASURED...NORTHWEST WINDS GUSTED TO 29 MPH...AND  
THUNDER WAS HEARD.  
IN 2007...A NEW 24-HOUR RECORD OF 2.65 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION  
WAS SET AT DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FOR THE MONTH OF  
OCTOBER; BREAKING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 2.58 INCHES SET IN  
1892.  
13-16 IN 1873...THE 13TH THROUGH THE 16TH...SMOKE FROM SEVERAL LARGE  
FOREST FIRES IN THE MOUNTAINS MADE THE AIR VERY HAZY IN THE  
CITY.  
 

 
 
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