A half inch and 79 years.
That’s the difference between November 2024 and November 1945, the two snowiest Novembers in Summit County history, according to the official record-keeping station in Dillon.
The National Weather Service confirms 37.5 inches of snowfall this year, compared to 38 inches in 1945.
Back then, WWII had just ended, I-70 didn’t exist, and Loveland was the only ski area in town (and one of just four in Colorado, along with Monarch, Winter Park and the state’s oldest still-operating mountain, Howelson Hill in Steamboat Springs).
Here is how November 2024 snowfall in Summit County stacks up:
- 1945… 38 inches
- 2024… 37.5 inches
- 1955… 35 inches
Ski hills up and down I-70 claim monstrous totals to start the season. Almost all of them are two times deeper than last year. Keystone is nearly four times deeper.
- Copper… 107 inches
- Breckenridge… 84 inches
- Vail… 84 inches
- Keystone… 78 inches
- Beaver Creek… 77 inches
- Winter Park… 76 inches
- Loveland… 66 inches
- Arapahoe Basin… 52 inches