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BERTHOUD PASS, Colo. (KDVR) — It is Aug. 20 and the National Weather Service in Boulder is reporting heavy snow on Berthoud Pass.

The snow report was posted around 2 a.m. Friday morning with a 16 degree wind chill.

Originally tweeted by NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) on August 20, 2021.

We took a tour around CDOT cameras as the sun rose on Friday morning and this is what we found:

  • Treasury and Purple mountains, north of Crested Butte
  • Snow in RMNP Credit: Alpine Visitor Center August 20, 2021
  • Berthoud Pass snow. Credit: CDOT
  • Cameron Pass snow. Credit: CDOT
  • Gore Pass snow. Credit: CDOT

If you have pictures of the snow, we would love to see them! You can share them here and we will share as many as we can.

We will add photos to this story as we get them.

It also snowed in Rocky Mountain National Park and some visitors were surprised but enjoyed the variety of seasons throughout the park.

How soon could Denver see its first snow? In 2020, the first snow arrived in early September.

On Sept. 7, 2020, Denver hit 93 degrees then dropped to 43 degrees on Sept. 8 with 1 inch of snow.

Here’s a look at the list of the first snowfalls during the last 10 years from the National Weather Service:

  • Sept. 8, 2020
  • Oct. 10, 2019
  • Oct. 6, 2018
  • Oct. 9, 2017
  • Nov. 17, 2016
  • Nov. 5, 2015
  • Nov. 11, 2014
  • Oct. 18, 2013
  • Oct. 5, 2012
  • Oct. 25, 2011

While September snows are possible in Denver, it usually doesn’t snow until the middle of October.

  • The earliest date of the first snow: Sept. 3, 1961
  • The latest date of the first snow: Nov. 21, 1934
  • The average date of the first snow: Oct. 18