The first average snowfall at the Colorado Springs airport is October 24th. This doesn't mean that we get the first snowfall of the year on that date. It can come much earlier or later depending on what's going on with our current weather pattern.

This year we are likely going to transition into a La Nina pattern. To learn more about that weather pattern you can find that article here . With a La Nina pattern, this tends to trend warmer and drier for southern Colorado.

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With this transition in mind, the weather team has a friendly competition on who can correctly predict the closest date to our first snowfall. This would mean we would have to receive 0.1" of snowfall at the Colorado Springs Airport.

Meteorologist Alan Rose says "I think we will see our first snowfall on October

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