Click the link to read the article on the Fort Collins Coloradoan website (Miles Blumhardt). Here’s an excerpt:
Fort Collins had a very dry and warm December 2023
- The city received no measurable snowfall in December, which is the first time that happened since 2002. Before 2002, it happened only three other times, the last of which was in 1935.
- The city received 0.14 inches of precipitation, which fell as rain. It was the driest December since 2018.
- The average temperature was 37.3 degrees, which was the warmest for December since 1980.
- December reached above 60 degrees five times, including the high of 65 degrees on Dec. 6 and the last balmy day of 62 degrees on Dec. 21.
- It never got colder than 15 degrees. That happened on Christmas night and was the highest minimum temperature for the month since the beginning of city weather record-keeping in 1889. Compare that to December 2022, when we dropped to minus 17 degrees, the coldest temperature recorded of any month since the 1990s.
Despite a dry December, 2023 was a wet one for Fort Collins
- 2023 was the fourth-wettest year on record, ending with 24.36 inches of precipitation, which was 153% of our 1991-2020 normal of 15.88 inches.
- The last wetter year was in 1997, the year of the Spring Creek Flood, when we received 25.23 inches.
- The city’s record for precipitation in a calendar year is 28.28 inches in 1961.