Denver may set a record this week for the length of time measurable snow has been on the ground, according to the Denver Post. From the article, "Snow - if you can still call this hard and dirty stuff snow - has covered many of Denver's streets, yards and sidewalks for 55 days as of today, the third-longest period on record, according to the National Weather Service. In an open field near the old Stapleton airport, where experts measure Denver's snowpack every morning before sunrise, there was still an average of 4 inches Monday. That - and the cold temperatures and snow flurries predicted for the rest of this week - may be enough to break a record. The city's second-longest record for snow cover, 60 consecutive days, was set in the winter of 1913-14, said Matt Kelsch, a meteorologist with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. Monday would be 61 days. And if there is still just one-tenth of an inch of snow on the ground at that spot in Stapleton a week from Thursday, Denver will have a new record.
Denver's longest stretch of snow cover was 63 days in 1983-1984, Kelsch said."
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