Colorado city gets enough snow in 24 hours to break ‘monthly’ record set in 1912

Wet and heavy snow that fell in the area of Fort Collins between 7 p.m. on Friday and 7 p.m. on Saturday helped to set a pretty remarkable weather record this weekend.

For starters, the 1.66 inches of precipitation easily became the wettest single 24-hour February period on record for the area. Even more impressive – that 1.66 inches of precipitation was more precipitation than any previous entire month of February in Fort Collins, according to the Colorado Climate Center out of Colorado State University. The previous February precipitation record was 1.65 inches for the entire month, set in February 1912.

Snowfall totals in the Fort Collins area varied greatly per reporting from the National Weather Service, with the nearby Horsetooth Mountain getting the most snow in the immediate area – 17 inches over the weekend. Meanwhile, only a couple inches of snow were reported in most of the more urban part of the Fort Collins area (find more snow totals from the weekend here).

It’s likely the February precipitation record for the Fort Collins area will be broken several more times as the month continues, with more rounds of snow expected to hit the state in upcoming days.

Find the most updated forecast on the National Weather Service website.

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Photo Credit: Jeremy Poland (iStock). (Jeremy Poland)
Photo Credit: Jeremy Poland (iStock). (Jeremy Poland)

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