How did St. Patrick’s Day 2024 weather compare to previous ones?
DENVER (KDVR) — It was a cool and dry St. Patrick’s Day weekend in Denver. Even though temperatures were below normal, they were still far from record-setting.
On Saturday, Denver saw clearing clouds ahead of a high that reached 50 degrees.
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This was followed by more clouds and a high of 47 degrees on Sunday.
After starting St. Patrick’s Day with a low of 34 degrees, which is 6 degrees above normal, high temperatures climbed to only 47 degrees, which is 10 degrees below average.
The warmest St. Patrick’s Day on record in Denver was 76 degrees in 2012. Denver’s coldest St. Patrick’s Day was in 1892 when the low temperature fell to 6 degrees below zero.
This weekend was dry in the Mile High City, and it stayed dry, except for melting snow.
March 17, 1906, holds the record for the snowiest St. Patrick’s Day when 4.2 inches of fresh powder fell in Denver.
The deepest snow depth recorded was in 2021 when 8 inches of snow was still on the ground in Denver.
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