"An arctic cold front blasted southwestward into the Denver area
Sunday morning," said weather.com senior digital meteorologist Nick
Wiltgen. "The cold air was nearly saturated -- humidity was near 100
percent -- and the east-northeast winds bringing it into Denver were
blowing upslope toward the Rockies."
Wiltgen
added: "The combination of cold, moist air and a wind blowing upslope
led to very low clouds and thick fog -- in this case, freezing fog,
since temperatures quickly plunged well below freezing. The fog, the
icing concerns, the strong winds -- all of these are just bad news for
trying to get planes in an out of a busy airport."
Departures were delayed as well. Flightaware.com said that as of 2 p.m. Sunday, 22 percent of the roughly 1,000 flights originating from DIA Sunday had been delayed, a larger percentage than any other U.S. airport at that time.
Coale stated more than 166,000 passengers
were expected to pass through DIA on Sunday, 26,000 more than usual,
the Denver Post reported. Monday is also expecting a large amount of
passengers, at least 157,000.
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