Fort Collins receives first snow of season, mountains pile up double-digit snowfall totals

Miles Blumhardt, Fort Collins Coloradoan
Updated ·2 min read
Colorado saw single-digit lows forecast for early Monday morning.
Colorado saw single-digit lows forecast for early Monday morning.

Fort Collins and much of the state received a cold and snowy slap in the face over the weekend with many locations reporting double-digit snowfall totals and single-digit low temperatures.

Fort Collins was on accident alert during the heaviest snow Saturday evening and night.

The city reported 3.5 inches of snow officially at its weather station on the main Colorado State University campus. The average for October is 4 inches.

A slow warming trend will get the city back into the 60s by Thursday, but Halloween on Tuesday, Oct. 31, will be brisk with a high of 42 degrees and low of 24.

Fort Collins-area, Colorado snowfall totals show many double-digit marks

The below totals are according to the National Weather Service and Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network.

Fort Collins area

  • Estes Park (3 mile south): 13 inches

  • Estes Park (2 miles west): 10 inches

  • Bear Lake (Rocky Mountain National Park): 9.1 inches

  • Carter Lake (3 miles south-southeast): 8 inches

  • Estes Park: 7 inches

  • Loveland (2 miles southwest): 6.5 inches

  • Fort Collins (2.8 miles west): 6 inches

  • Horsetooth Mountain (3 miles northwest): 6 inches

  • Fort Collins (3 miles west): 6 inches

  • Loveland (1 mile north): 5.9 inches

  • Fort Collins (1 mile north): 5.3 inches

  • Laporte: 5 inches

  • Loveland (3 miles east): 5 inches

  • Red Feather Lakes (3.8 miles east-northeast): 5 inches

  • Fort Collins (2 miles east-southeast): 4.8 inches

  • Timnath (2 miles north): 4 inches

  • Fort Collins: 3.5 inches

  • Wellington: 3.5 inches

  • Greeley: 3.5 inches

  • Windsor: 3 inches

Statewide

  • Copper Mountain (8 miles south-southwest): 16.9 inches

  • Breckenridge (3 miles south-southwest): 16 inches

  • Eldora: 14 inches

  • Loveland Pass (2 miles south): 14 inches

  • Berthoud Pass (1 mile north-northwest): 13 inches

  • Castle Rock: 12.5 inches

  • Colorado Springs: 10.5 inches

  • Englewood: 10.2 inches

  • Conifer: 9 inches

  • Elizabeth: 8.5 inches

  • Golden: 8.5 inches

  • Vail: 7 inches

  • Denver International Airport: 6.5 inches

  • Denver: 5-6 inches

  • Boulder (1 miles south-southeast): 5.5 inches

This article originally appeared on Fort Collins Coloradoan: Colorado weekend snowstorm delivers double-digit snowfall totals