I had the local television newscast on the other day while I was working on my computer, and heard a story comparing our current weather here in Denver (mostly upper 80s with a few 90s thrown in) to a September snowstorm in a previous year. I wasn't listening very closely, and thought they were talking about last year. I decided I would use a photograph of that storm in today's blog post, to contrast the difference between this year and last. I looked back at last year's blog posts, and saw no storms, and kept looking back until 2020, still finding nothing. Then I checked the internet and found that the last time Denver had measurable snow in September was back in 2000. Snow in Denver in September is evidently very rare. It turns out the newscasters were talking about the anniversary of a snowstorm that took place 88 years ago, on September 26th, 1936, which was just a few years before I started this blog. A total of 16.5 inches fell in downtown Denver, and 21.3 inches at Stapleton International, a convenient, close-in airport that was replaced by Denver International Airport back in 1995, when the city fathers decided an airport close to the Kansas state line would be much more practical. In any case, we did get snow here in October of last year, but often the first snowfall can be as late as December. The photograph above was taken on October 29th of last year, marking that year's first snowstorm, dumping between 8 to 9 inches on the city. Which no doubt melted the very next day, when temperatures returned to the 70s and 80s. And thanks to casinos in both Blackhawk and Central City, Colorado, not to mention online betting sites, you can probably place bets on when Denver's first snowfall will take place this year. Good luck with that.
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