Warmer weather finally set to arrive

Another short update tonight...

The cold and snowy April continued today, with the Denver metro area waking up to 4-6" of snow, and the high temperature only topping out at 30 at DIA.  With the most recent late season cold blast, Denver is now running about 8 degrees below average for the month of April.  The Colorado Rockies played a doubleheader at home against the Atlanta Braves today (last night's game was snowed out), and I have to think those may have been a couple of the coldest games in MLB history, if going by gametime temperature.

A warm-up is finally on the way, though, along with sunshine.  Highs tomorrow in Denver will be around 50... on Thursday and Friday, we'll be in the mid 60's... and on Saturday and Sunday we'll be in the upper 60's to low 70's.  

From earlier Tuesday...

Mountain snowfall totals (estimates based on 12:1 snow to liquid ratio) from the latest storm include...

18" Buffalo Pass (Steamboat)
17" Arrow site (Indian Peaks)
15.5" University Camp (Indian Peaks)
15.5" Wild Basin (RMNP)
14.5" Berthoud Pass
13" A-Basin (official ski area report)
13" Bear Lake (RMNP)
11" Loveland Ski Area (official ski area report)
11" Copper Mountain
11" Elliott Ridge (Gore Range)
9.5" Cameron Pass

Also, the parade of spring storms has pushed the seasonal snowfall total in Denver up to 73.5" (average is 57.5"), which surpasses the big winter of 2006-2007, when 72.6" fell. While Denver's official weather records have changed locations over the years and aren't entirely reliable, as it now stands, 2012-2013 is officially the snowiest winter in Denver since 1991-1992! Pretty amazing considering how dry early to mid winter was.

Denver also set it's 4th record low temperature of April 2013 last night, when the temp fell to 21F just before midnight.