October 2021 was extremely dry for all of eastern Colorado and drought has exploded once again across the region. Other notable highlights during the month include the return of La Niña for a second winter in a row, magnificent fall colors, a drizzly Halloween, and the lack of any accumulating snowfall yet in Boulder or Denver. Here’s a quick and colorful graphical recap of our weather during October and how it relates to climatology.
After an unseasonably warm weekend across the Front Range, this week starts and ends with seasonal to below normal temperatures. A series of cold fronts will traverse through our area as a storm system strengthens over the midsection of the country. This pattern will favor snow for the higher terrain mid to late-week, but just dry, breezy, and chilly conditions for the Plains. Denver and Boulder are both rapidly approaching record territory for the latest first snow.
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