Denver hit 83 degrees on Wednesday afternoon. Eight hours later, it was snowing.
Source: Washington Post
What do you wear when you encounter every season within a 12-hour window?
Residents of Denver enjoyed a beautiful Wednesday afternoon with temperatures in the lower to middle 80s. During the evening commute, a cold front swung through, bringing strong northerly winds and plummeting temperatures to freezing. Just eight hours after setting the record high for the day, it was snowing. Denver also set a record low by midnight.
“That’s our largest one-day temperature change in October on record,” said Russell Danielson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Boulder. “We tell people around here to dress in layers, because sometimes you get summer and winter in the same day.”
That chalks up to a 54-degree temperature drop within one day. It also marks a 40-degree plummet in four hours, the mercury diving from 81 degrees to 41 between 4 and 8 p.m. As the winds switched around from the north, gusts up to 55 miles per hour heralded the bone-chilling front’s arrival.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/10/10/denver-hit-degrees-wednesday-afternoon-eight-hours-later-it-was-snowing/
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