User:KingLucarius/sandbox/Snowfall in Boulder, Colorado

Climatology
Winter snowfall is a significant contributor to the annual precipitation of large portions of the overall dry and semi-arid climate that dominates large portions of Colorado. Boulder, Colorado is one such city, normally receiving around 92.8 inches (2367.3 mm) of snowfall throughout the autumn, winter and spring months of the year. Despite snowfall typically peaking in the early to mid-spring months of the year, specifically March; instances of measurable snowfall have been observed historically in every month of the calendar year except for July and August. Due to snowfall being practical for most of the year across higher elevations in the United States, no seasonal bounds for it are specified by the National Weather Service (NWS). However, totals listed below are reset to the following year on July 1, similarly to the seasonal bounds used by agencies for designating tropical cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere.

History & methodology
Beginning in 1893, the National Weather Service and their Denver-Boulder (BOU) office began keeping archives of snowfall data in Colorado. This practice has continued into the present day with such archives available for several different locations across the state. For the purposes of this article, all listed data and information is be based upon the archives for Boulder, Colorado. Below are a set of tables depicting historical snowfall in the city; separated by season, their classifications relative to the 1991-2020 mean, and the criteria for said classifications.

Historical snowfall by season
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