Anywhere from 194 inches to 17, depending on which side of the divide you stand. FEMA photo.
An eleven-fold gap inside one state. A statewide average describes nowhere. NASA image.
2025-26 finished dead last at Fort Collins, Steamboat and Telluride. Denver came second worst.
Colorado Springs beat its normal in all seven strong El Nino winters. Steamboat managed two.
That is the median across 78 seasons. The earliest was 3 September, the latest 10 December.