This week’s snowstorm Denver’s biggest in November since 1994

That was a historic snowstorm the Front Range saw this week, for a number of reasons.

As much as 2 feet of snow fell across parts of the Denver area Monday and Tuesday, and some parts of Colorado saw as much as 33 inches of snow from what was likely most of northeast Colorado’s biggest snowstorm in at least three years.

While most of the immediate Denver area saw slightly higher snowfall totals, Denver officially received 9½ inches of snow at the city’s official observation site at Denver International Airport.

The 8½-inch snowfall Tuesday made it Denver’s snowiest day since April 16, 2016.

It also had been a long time since Denver saw a November snow day of that magnitude. Tuesday was Denver’s snowiest November day since 1994, according to official records from the National Weather Service in Boulder.

Denver is now up to 25.7 inches of snowfall, making it the snowiest start to a winter season since 2009. That 25.7 total is also as much or more than two of Denver’s past three entire winter totals. That’s right:

Denver already has seen more snow than what it saw during the entire 2016-17 winter (21.8 inches) and equal to what it saw in 201718 (25.7 inches).

While that’s mostly a commentary on how low those two specific winter snowfall totals were, it’s a testament to an extremely active start to this winter.

So far this November, Denver has received 13.2 inches of snow, making it the snowiest November since 1994.

Denver averages 7½ inches of snow in November. And, of course, this comes on the heels of an unusually snowy October.

Again, all of those numbers are based on the official readings from DIA.

In Boulder, a total of 20.7 inches of snow fell, according to the National Weather Service.

That made it the city’s third-snowiest day on record, and the snowiest overall since 1979.

Fort Collins received 11.6 inches of snow Tuesday, making it the city’s snowiest November day since 1979 and second-snowiest November day ever recorded.

The city finished with an impressive 16½ inches of total snowfall, falling closer to the bull’s-eye of highest snowfall amounts from this storm.