{"id":10299,"date":"2007-02-21T21:55:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T04:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/02\/21\/an-end-to-the-snow.html"},"modified":"2014-11-16T21:37:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T04:37:08","slug":"an_end_to_the_snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/21\/an_end_to_the_snow.html","title":{"rendered":"An end to the snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or at least of the official snow-on-the-ground<\/a>, which has hung around since … well, our ill-fated attempt to fly out to California for Christmas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The city was officially covered in snow for 61 straight days until Tuesday morning, when a National Weather Service contractor declared only a “trace” at the designated measuring site – a field surrounding the old Stapleton Airport weather station in northeast Denver. <\/p>\n

That put an end to the second-longest stretch of snow-cover days in Denver history. <\/p>\n

The latest streak fell just two days short of tying the record of 63 days, attained in the winter of 1983-84, and it broke the old second-place mark of 60 days, recorded in the winter of 1913-14. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The warm weather the past week has really put the kibosh on the snow. Even the stuff in the gutters has been reduced to icky black ice floes. Yay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or at least of the official snow-on-the-ground, which has hung around since … well, our ill-fated attempt to fly out to California for Christmas. 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