Top 2020 Colorado Weather Events Included Rare Rocky Mountain Derecho

CBS Denver

December 28, 2020

DENVER (CBS4) – When it comes to Colorado’s weather in the year 2020 most are going to remember the extreme drought which led to record wildfires, but we did have some other notable events.

January featured a few windstorms including one that produced a gust to 100 mph at Carter Lake on the 7th. February started off with record high temperatures in places like Boulder where the thermometer hit 75 degrees on the 2nd. Then just two days later a foot of snow fell on the city.

The snow marked a drastic shift in the weather pattern where Denver picked up 9 inches of snow before the 10th of the month after an extremely dry start to the year. The mountains were pounded with a consistent parade of snowstorms which helped knock down drought.

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